How to answer a call with voice only?

[anon(19981)]

My wife is a RN at a care facility and one of her patients has ALS and has trouble moving his fingers correctly. He doesn't really want a bluetooth device which I recommended but would like to know if it's possible to answer a call with voice only and to have it answer in speaker mode? Thanks for any of your ideas.

 

[belodion]

What may be helpful is Phone > 3-dot menu > Call Settings > Auto Answer.

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[anon(19981)]

Thanks. I thought about that but I thought that it needs to be connected to a bt device. I'm going to go with her in the next couple of days to try to figure it out. I'll give this a try.

 

[sswitzer]

Not that it's a direct answer to your question, but many years ago (1985? 86?) as a student I did a work term for the Neil Squire Foundation (now the Neil Squire Society) in helping people with severe physical disabilities access technology. (I also did a work term at an extended care facility in Calgary.) I worked with MS patients, as well as others; we used "sip and puff" and micro-triggers, we even had one guy who could turn things off and on using his eyebrow... pretty well the only thing he still had control over. I imagine that the technology for that sort of thing has come leaps and bounds ahead of where we were at nearly 30 years ago!

Neil Squire Society

I don't know what resources your wife has access to, but the NSS specializes in that field and they may have resources (guides, videos, equipment, etc.) that can be of some service.

 

[anon(19981)]

Thanks. I'll give her the information and see what she can do for the patient.