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What is teleCalm?

The teleCalm service stops problem calls for seniors – whether they live at home or in a senior living community. We especially help those living with Alzheimer’s and dementia by keeping them safely connected to family and friends.

Our service reduces senior isolation. We help seniors maintain their independence, while helping family caregivers prevent phone-related problems such as late-night calls, repeated calls, and 911 abuse. Plus, we stop 100% of telemarketer/scam calls.

How do you do that?

Family caregivers subscribe to the teleCalm service for their loved one, and it replaces any existing home phone service provider. Our service works whether the senior lives at home or in a senior living community – even in memory care, where ordinary phone service is not allowed.

We provide a small wireless adapter that the telephone plugs into. They don’t need to have existing phone service or internet service.

The family caregiver manages all the features and benefits of our service remotely through the teleCalm Caregiver app on their smartphone.

If a family wants your service for their loved one in senior living, does the community have to already have your service installed?

No. We’re currently in over 170 communities across the US. In the majority of these communities, the family member has brought the teleCalm adapter into their loved one’s apartment and plugged it in themselves. The great thing is we don’t touch the community’s telephone wiring and we don’t use the community Wi-Fi. Our wireless adapter uses cellular but has a standard phone jack on the back to plug in any standard home telephone.

Dementia is debilitating. 

Seniors living with Alzheimer's and dementia frequently develop stressful and unsafe telephone habits. 

Without teleCalm, caregivers often take away their loved one’s phone - further reducing their loved one’s independence and increasing their isolation.

We’ve built and proven a better solution.

teleCalm’s unique phone service keeps seniors safely connected with family and friends, while automatically blocking troublesome calls. 

There are over 10 million seniors living with Alzheimer’s and dementia. 

Caregivers of aging seniors, especially seniors with dementia, often must address senior isolation, elder fraud and increased emotional and financial family stress - most due to common telephone problems.

Late-Night Calls
Dementia often affects a senior's sense of time, resulting in disrupting family and friends with calls during the middle of the night.

Repeated Calls
Many seniors will repeatedly call a family member, sometimes over 50 times in an hour. This is just another result of dementia and the destruction of a senior's short-term memory. 

False 9-1-1 Calls
Even as dementia causes seniors to forget phone numbers of family members, they always seem to remember how to call 9-1-1. Some calling over 25 times a month. The reasons can vary by individual; some because of confusion or anxiety, others because of loneliness.

TV Shopping and Donations Sites
Impaired judgment and diminishing comprehension associated with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias can also lead to unusual impulse purchasing. Often times resulting in obsessive home shopping purchases and donations to causes a senior sees on TV.

Telemarketer and Scam Calls
We all put up with the ever-increasing scam calls we receive, but seniors living with Alzheimer's are easily swayed by these and telemarketer calls they receive. While we don't answer calls you don't recognize, this doesn't work for those with dementia. Many are eager to answer any call coming in and think everyone is truthful.

Caregivers often feel compelled to take away Mom or Dad’s traditional phone, removing their independence, increasing their isolation.

teleCalm puts an end to ALL of these call problems for seniors and their caregivers.
The teleCalm service evaluates each incoming and outgoing call, deciding whether the call should be allowed, blocked, or re-routed.

Only incoming calls from trusted contacts ring on the senior's telephone. This protects the senior living with Alzheimer's from all telemarketers and scam calls.

Outgoing calls can be filtered as well, to block certain calls to unwanted destinations or to limit calls only to family and friends. 

teleCalm's Quiet Hours and Repeat Dialing features help for those seniors where late-night and repeated calls are the problem behaviors as a result of their dementia.

For seniors living in Memory Care communities who continually make unnecessary 9-1-1 calls, teleCalm is able to re-route these calls to an-onsite nurse station instead.

teleCalm’s patented phone service is oftentimes the only way seniors can continue to use a phone, enabling them to live at home longer and retain as much independence as possible.