Verizon Care Smartwatch – Wearable for Seniors

Verizon Care Smartwatch – Wearable for Seniors

Who says that oldies should settle on what they are used to and should not enjoy the current trend in technologies? From smart TV’s gaming consoles, tablet PC’s, smartphones to other entertainment gadgets. There is always a product that is designed for your grandpa and grandma.

As wearable becomes a trend, Verizon created a smartwatch for seniors. They just recently announced this wearable, a smartwatch with easy to use features, direct and simple. Introducing the Care Smartwatch, simple and easy to use, Verizon goes for simplicity by removing confusing functions that is usually we experience in most of the smartwatches in the market.

Designed for seniors, the smartwatch is equipped with easy to use functions, such as preloaded messages for faster replies and inquiries. A 3 touch navigation for accessing contacts faster, a use feature in times of emergency. Your parents is experiencing some issues due to aging, a consistent communication and monitoring is a must.

Reminders, Safety and Emergency Functions

Just like a kids smartwatch, the Verizon Care smartwatch is equipped with “One button Emergency Contact Call”. It is useful in terms of emergency, where the user can directly make a call to a designated contact just by pressing a button on the smartwatch.

Location Sharing, a feature that keeps you aware of the seniors location. Its smart location sharing automatically notify you the location, whether it was set on time, or location based alerts.

Another important feature that is integrated to the device is the option to set reminders. Forgetful is a thing of the past, now you parents can easily remember with the reminder notifications. Whether its for appointment, birthdays or medication. You can even personalized reminders with the Care Smart app.

Its a pretty useful smartwatch, we must admit its a good idea from Verizon, we don’t see a lot of smartwatches in this category. The Verizon Care smartwatch might be a start and might usher the trend for next generation of smartwatches for seniors.

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Jo Di Calivo -Blogger, Tech Guru, providing the current news on wearables particularly on smartwatches, smartbands. And loves to go fishing on spare time.