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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you explain in a little more detail what you did for the bolded?

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intervening things you can do: [b]set up unobtrusive cameras around the property (i used blink). I also set up my dad's phone to auto-answer after 15 seconds, which meant that phone calls went to voicemail normally but facetime would answer if even if he couldnt hear the phone.[/b] I put an airtag in his car. [b]I set up an echo show and used the camera/drop-in feature to check on them.[/b] I put most of their bills on auto-pay and checked on the bank account every so often. we registered the DPoA paperwork at their bank. [/quote][/quote]

all of these require setting up in person, but helped me help them from a distance.

blink cameras can run on lithium batteries or plug in usb, and require a wifi connection. they can record to the cloud and have two-way audio. i placed them under furniture, on the porch/facing driveway, or next to the tv, basically anywhere i could find that was visually unobtrusive. i would set them up to record on motion but not super-long clips. but this way i could get a general sense of where they were in the house/if they were eating, and the cameras have a live drop-in feature.

auto-answer on the iphone is an accessibility feature. the long ring time of 15 seconds means that it generally would only auto-answer facetime video or audio calls, so normal phone calls just went to voicemail like usual.

if you set up an amazon echo show for them and have access to the account that owns it, you have the option in the app to "drop in" (calls the echo show like a normal video call) or just access the camera which will silently open the audio and video. i set it up to basically just be a digital photo frame with photos of the grandkids in their room, they were past the point of interacting with it but earlier stage parents might be able to do things like "alexa, play some music", "alexa what time is it?" etc.[/quote]

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