Oricom Care170 Speakerphone with SOS Pendant

This is two things in one: an easy-to-use home phone, and a way of getting help quickly if something goes wrong.

As a phone, it does what a good accessible handset should. Large well-spaced buttons so dialling is accurate. Amplified audio so conversations are clear. Hands-free speaker so you don’t have to hold anything.

The pendant is what makes it different. You wear it around your neck or on your wrist, and if you have a fall or feel unwell, one press dials the contacts you’ve programmed in — family, a neighbour, a carer. It works from anywhere in range of the base, which means the bathroom and the garden, not just next to the phone.

For anyone living alone, or for a family member worried about someone who does, that’s a meaningful amount of reassurance for a modest cost — and it doesn’t require a monitoring subscription.

• Large, high-contrast buttons and hands-free speakerphone
• Wearable SOS pendant included
• One press on the pendant dials your emergency contacts
• Amplified sound
• Speed dial memory for important numbers
• 30 metre Pendant range,
• Up to 5 emergency contacts via the pendant
• IP57 water resistance