72 hours later, 75yo Dad's stolen iphone now fully resolved - $250 phone insurance deductible and a little time was the only real loss.
Person with the phone called again after 24h of silence and tried to extract more money. I got to tell her she missed out on cold hard cash the day before for doing the right thing, and wished her well.
Gonna be writing up lessons learned for folks w/ aging loved ones. TLDR, as a loved one ages and you have responsibility:
-Move them to your cellular plan.
-Insure their cellphone.
-Make sure there's at least a passcode required to access the phone (FaceID/TouchID okay, honestly).
-Set up their phone with an account you have access to.
Some data tradeoffs here, but:
-Set up device so location is shared with you.
-Enable cloud backups for their device.
For these last two, Apple Family Sharing makes this SUPER easy. Set up Family Sharing on your device/account first so you're the Organizer, then invite the loved one.
(I'm less well-versed in Google or Samsung capabilities here but looking into those so my eventual blogpost on this will be decently thorough).
Last point, and maybe the most important:
-The aging loved one will likely feel wicked embarrassed about losing their phone. Do your best to reassure them - and, if you set up stuff like the above, you'll be able to quickly and easily demonstrate that it really is not a huge deal.
Unfortunately, this'll cost a little ongoing money, between phone insurance and cloud backup space. But the saved time and frustration is worth its weight in gold.
#aging
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2023-08-26 19:08:36
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