Description
The award-winning RAZ Memory Cell Phone is an easy-to-use, groundbreaking cell phone for people with memory loss, dementia, Alzheimer’s, stroke, low vision, Parkinson’s or seniors who prefer an intuitive experience. The phone consists of one primary screen and one screen only. It allows seniors to stay connected with friends and family through regular phone calls, video calls and text messages, while allowing the caregiver to manage the phone from afar.
The single screen includes three elements:
- Photos and names of up to fifty contacts with six large icons per page;
- An optional 911 button or the alternative RAZ Emergency Service subscription;
- Optional information such as date & time, day of the week, battery power and signal strength.
The RAZ Memory Cell Phone does not exit the home screen. This prevents users from getting confused in the normal smartphone environment. Even the power button can be disabled.
The display, which is a large 6.5 inches, does not time out. It can remain always-on or go dark after 2 minutes and wake up with movement. At your option, incoming calls can be restricted to those coming from Contacts, eliminating undesirable predatory calls.
With a relentless focus on being extremely intuitive and easy to use, the RAZ Memory Cell Phone requires only a simple tap to place and answer calls. The caregiver also has the option to adapt the call activation method to the option that best suits their senior’s needs and ability.
Remote Manage provides caregivers the unprecedented ability to remotely control ALL aspects of their senior’s cell phone through a simple app. Create and edit contacts, manage settings, access the phone information and much more from your own smartphone (iPhone or Android).
Key features:
Phone calls: Place and answer calls with a simple tap allowing the senior to stay connected with friends and family. The caregiver can manage the contacts with the RAZ Care app.
Block unwanted incoming calls: Avoid scams and robocalls with this essential feature that allows incoming calls only from contacts, enhancing your senior’s safety.
Video calls: Stay connected with your senior effortlessly. Only approved contacts can video call the Memory Phone user.
Text messaging: A simplified, customizable experience that allows seniors to send and receive text messages according to their needs and abilities, featuring super-large letters, big buttons, speech-to-text, and quick answer options. Caregivers can also control who the senior can text and who can text them. Currently, this feature does not support group messaging or the ability to share photos.
Press & hold buttons: The caregiver can choose between different press & hold methods to prevent unwanted calls. And we have added an extra layer of safety with the call confirmation screen.
Settings are disabled for the user: ALL the settings including the volume rocker are remotely managed by the caregiver through the RAZ Care app. Caregivers can even disable the power button to avoid the phone to be accidentally turned off. This means peace of mind for the caregiver and safety for the senior.
Reminders: From your own smartphone, you can send your senior reminders about medicines, appointments or important events and see if they were acknowledged. Reminder colors and font size can be customized through the RAZ Care app.
Quiet hours: Prevent your senior with dementia from calling specified contacts during certain hours of the day or in the middle of the night.
Loneliness alerts: Reduce loneliness! Receive an alert when the user does not participate in the desired number of calls.
Manage battery charging: The RAZ Memory Cell Phone provides four key charging features. Seniors can get reminders to charge the phone and will receive visual & audible confirmation when the phone is connected to the charger. Caregivers can track the remaining battery power and charging status in the RAZ Care app and receive text alerts when the battery is low.
Location tracking & Status check: With the RAZ Care app, caregivers can get peace of mind by checking the real-time status of their senior’s phone, as well as its location.
Calling emergency services: Control how users can call emergency services. Three options are available, including an option for a 911 emergency button that is always within reach for your senior’s safety.
RAZ Emergency Service: With the RAZ Emergency Service, every emergency call is routed to a private dispatch agent who assesses the situation and contacts 911 if necessary.
Calls can go automatically to Speaker mode: With this option, seniors can hear calls clearly. The RAZ Memory Cell Phone’s speaker’s loudness can reach up to 125.6dB!
Calls can be answered automatically: With the Auto-answer option, incoming calls from contacts will be answered automatically and the call will be on speaker.
Low Vision and Hand Tremor mode: An even simpler interface with super-larger icons, less contacts per page and bigger buttons. The ideal mode for those with low vision, Parkinson’s, hand tremor and others.
Wireless charging: The wireless charging set (sold separately) allows the user to easily charge the phone by placing it on the wireless charging stand or pad without the hassle of plugging in the charging cable.
Free updates: We are always looking to improve our products to make seniors’ and caregivers’ lives easier. When we launch new updates to the RAZ Memory Cell Phone, our customers get 100% free access to them.
Enhance your senior’s safety with our solutions
RAZ Emergency Service: With this subscription-based service, emergency calls are connected to a highly trained agent to help the senior through their problem. The agent will have access to the senior’s location and other helpful information provided by the caregiver. Text messages will be sent to emergency contacts, providing the opportunity to interact directly with the agent to assess the nature of the emergency and provide input. The RAZ Emergency Service helps avoid up to 95% of unnecessary emergency calls.
RAZ Alert: Respond more quickly to your senior’s emergencies. When your senior calls 911, receive a text message alerting you to the call. Up to 3 people can receive the 911 text message alert. There’s no additional cost for this feature.
Auto Answer: If your senior is not answering the phone and you believe that they might be experiencing an emergency, you can activate the Auto Answer feature in the RAZ Care app. When you call, the RAZ Memory Cell Phone will answer automatically after 4 or 5 rings and go to speakerphone. This is a great safety feature if your senior has fallen, for example, and can’t get to the phone! There’s no additional cost for this feature.
And there’s more!
A variety of useful RAZ Memory Cell Phone accessories, such as wireless charging sets and protective cases, are available here.
Receive 3 months of FREE wireless service from Affinity Cellular with your purchase! Affinity Cellular operates on Verizon, America’s most reliable network. Only $20 per month thereafter.
Free protection plan
In case your RAZ Memory Cell Phone is damaged within the first 12 months of use due to accidental drops or water (excluding loss or theft), we will offer you a replacement for $175 only. This applies if you purchased a protective case with the original phone. To get the replacement, you will need to return the damaged phone to RAZ Mobility.
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Lisa K. (verified owner) –
So far it is good. I don’t like the video feature – seems weird. I thought it would be more like facetime. I also wish you could take pictures and text – at least have that option.
RAZ Mobility Team –
Hi Lisa, thank you for your feedback! The video call experience on the RAZ Memory Cell Phone is very similar to FaceTime, with one key difference: the senior only sees the Hang Up button on their screen, since all other options are managed by the caregiver.
Another important difference is safety—only approved contacts can video call the senior
And we have great news: Text messaging is now available on the RAZ Memory Cell Phone! We’ve worked hard to design an intuitive, customizable experience that makes texting simple and accessible for seniors.
As always, caregivers can enable or disable the feature at any time and manage all settings remotely through the RAZ Care app 🙂
If you have any questions or if you need any assistance, please feel free to reach out to us here or call us at 800-729-0083. We’re here to help!
John (verified owner) –
My Mother has Alzheimer’s and is in a nursing home this phone has helped her and me in so many ways .
The phone itself was a breeze for me to set up and the app just as easy to understand and use.
There are several different ways to customize the settings to fine tune it for her abilities .
I’m so thankful for Raz understanding all the difficulties we face with our loved ones with dementia and helping with enriching our quality of life with this product’
Jennifer Byrne (verified owner) –
This phone is amazing! It was the perfect solution for my dad who has dementia. He lives in a different state and was struggling using his old phone. This phone saved the day and allows us to communicate easily with him! The caregiver app helps us send reminders and keep him safe! Thanks so much for this wonderful phone! I would highly recommend!!
Angela P Mason –
This phone is perfect for elders with Dementia. My mother can still make calls if she wants, but doesn’t have to dial. The only thing I would recommend changing is to make a way to blacken the screen. My mom cannot put the phone in and out of the folding case without pressing buttons. However, if you did make the screen “sleep”, she may never figure out how to turn it back on. The folding case is certainly a great way to prevent pushing buttons. I take it out of the folding case at night to charge it and I put it back in the folding case in the morning.
Darrin (verified owner) –
Phone is working great for my 94 year old Dad. He can keep in touch with the family and friend. The only down side was the battery runs down very fast in 114 hours we have him charging the phone every evening and that is working. Thanks
Todd Rogers (verified owner) –
This fits the bill!…and the Grandpa. His smart phone was too much and constantly accidentally getting disabled in various ways. This bulletproof phone is the best. All the features are working great. We tried the single tap dialing, but 911 got accidentally called twice, so we changed it to fast double tap. I’ve noticed the GPS tracking can be a bit delayed for some reason. I’ve not looked, but if it’s not on your website anywhere, it would be good to know how much mobile data is needed each month to cover subscriptions for less than unlimited. I just noticed today there’s no touchpad available when calling your cell’s number to get voicemail, so you can’t enter PINs and such.
Greg Ross (verified owner) –
Very helpful phone, that addressed many of the issue we were having with spam calls. My only problem has been with keeping the phone charged. I find that the phone discharges VERY quickly — 24 hours or less, even though my Mom is not making any calls. And once the phone gets completely discharged, it has to be re-set with a physical button-press on the phone. That means that my brother and I have to make a trip every time this happens, even if my Mom recharges the phone. Would be great if the phone could re-start without the button press being required (once it gets re-charged). We also purchased the wireless charging pad, which is helpful, but my Mom usually puts the phone onto the pad upside-down. Would be better if there was only one “right” way to set the phone on the pad. The current design is not dementia-friendly.
RAZ Mobility Team –
Hi Greg, thank you so much for your feedback. We’re glad to hear that the RAZ Memory Cell Phone has addressed important issues for you and your mother.
Due to its unique design and the need for constant availability, the battery life of this phone is somewhat shorter compared to a regular cell phone. We recommend daily charging as a routine practice, similar to what you would do with any other phone.
You can also enable charging reminders through the RAZ Care app. These will appear on your mother’s Memory Phone when the battery is low. Additionally, you can opt to receive a text message alert when the battery drops below 20%.
If you need any assistance, feel free to reach out to our Support team at 800-729-0083. We’re happy to help!
Louise (verified owner) –
Great phone for dementia users. Staff support is top notch. They’ve always done their best to solve a problem. I have the phone set up for restricted dialing (quiet hours) between 9am and 8pm to avoid middle of the night calls to non caregivers. I set up the outgoing msg to say this phone doesn’t monitor the voice-mail & to call again later. I set it up for double taps to call or hang up for less frequent pocket dialing. No speaker phone option but when talking to the “patient,” the speaker is loud enough that the caregiver or nurse can hear me on the other end almost like a speaker call… like if they need to interrupt. The hands-free charging station (sold separate) is much easier to use than having the person delicately plug the charging cord into the phone. After I saw that 9-1-1 staff had returned the patient’s call, I phoned them to advise them that the caller from the # I provided them had dementia. I also gave them my phone number as back up. They were familiar with the Raz phone. Great phone all around & since I already had TMobile service, it’s costing only $10 a month for this extra line. GPS is handy if the phone is lost & still has battery. Call the phone to locate it. I’ve looked — there’s no other phone with these features for those with cognitive Impairment. And yes, there’s a really nice quality book style case to avoid pocket calls. It’s a separate purchase thru Raz along with the cordless charger. Lastly, I set the phone up to hide the dial pad, and only 6 auto dial numbers (with faces) to avoid random calls and scams. No, I don’t work for Raz. I’m caring for someone with advanced dementia who really benefits from being connected to family & friends.
Suzanne Borner (verified owner) –
We have been looking and looking for a phone that our 80-year-old developmentally disabled family member with hearing issues could manage and successfully use. A smart phone with all the apps was way too complex and stressed her out. She couldn’t hear on a flip phone. This phone is PERFECT for her needs. She has a large family and a team of people at an agency that help her, so we are using all 30 contact spots. (If there is anything we could ask for it would be to allow more contacts.) She loves the simple green and red steps to follow to answer and hang up calls. She loves that she doesn’t get spam calls anymore. She loves that she just has to look at the front screen to choose her contact instead of having to try to open apps. She loves that I get a notification if her battery is low and can let her know. And she loves that she can hear people on a cell phone again. (I keep it on speaker mode for her, something we couldn’t do with regular Smart Phones because she’d change it.) I can’t believe we finally found a phone that works. It’s a huge relief for her entire family and her friends and staff at her agency. THANK YOU!
Wendy (verified owner) –
I purchased this phone for my loved one in memory care. TMobile set it up with a free SIM card and waived activation. It has been easy for him to use. He calls alot, not remembering that he called 5 minutes ago. I like that I can manage quiet hours from my phone and remind him to charge it. I also like the feeling of connection and independence it gives to him. It gives me peace of mind to know that he cannot receive predatory phone calls or call out to potential predators.
I would love to be able to text him with this phone and hope that might be added in the future.
I also would love to be able to hide the 911 button since he is in a facility.
RAZ Mobility Team –
Hi Wendy! We’re so happy to receive feedback like this. It’s wonderful to hear that your loved one has adapted so well to the RAZ Memory Cell Phone and that its features have been helpful in your caregiving journey.
Regarding the accidental or unnecessary emergency calls, we have good news! Caregivers can now choose the best method for their seniors from these three options through the RAZ Care app:
1) Keep the emergency button at the top of the screen, as it is now.
2) Set emergency services as a contact (with the option to choose the position of the contact icon to avoid it being at the top).
3) Use the regular keypad only, requiring the senior to manually dial the emergency number.
To update your RAZ Memory Cell Phone, please reach out to our Support team at 800-729-0083.
To update your RAZ Care app, visit the App store or Google Play and download the latest version.
Please feel free to reach out if you need any assistance 🙂