Home Station is a simple radio for seniors and elderly parents. It turns a spare or old Android phone or tablet into a big-button radio: three buttons that play the stations they love, including radio from back home. Nothing else to press, so it stays easy for someone living with dementia or Alzheimer's. You set it up once, then look after it from your own phone, wherever you live.

ON THEIR PHONE: THREE BIG BUTTONS. THAT'S IT.
• Tap a colour and the radio plays. Tap STOP to stop.
• No menus, no search, no ads, no sign-in.
• Big letters, strong contrast, and a volume that never drops to zero.
• Every tap is spoken aloud ("Playing News") with a gentle buzz, which helps with low vision.
• The back button always leads back to the radio.
• A home-screen widget starts the last station in one tap.

ON YOUR PHONE: EVERYTHING ELSE, FROM ANYWHERE
You look after the radio from the Home Station web app at gethomestation.com, on any phone or computer, iPhone included.
• Pick the three stations and change them whenever you like. The radio updates by itself.
• See that it's online, what's playing, when they last listened and how much battery is left.
• Get an email or a notification if the radio goes offline or a station stops.
• "Fix it" turns the volume back up and restarts the radio with one tap.
• Send voice messages. The Family button says "New message" until they listen, and you see when it's heard.
• Morning check, for a parent who lives alone: if nobody has tapped the radio by a time you choose, everyone who helps gets an email. It isn't an emergency service.
• It can turn itself off at a set time each night, for a radio left on all evening.
• Invite brothers and sisters to help: everyone can change stations and send messages.

EASY ENOUGH FOR DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER'S
Many people living with dementia still love their radio but get lost in a normal radio app. Home Station has one screen, three colours and nothing to remember. The settings stay out of reach, behind a hidden menu and a PIN only you know, so nothing gets changed by accident. Home Station is a radio, not a medical device.

THE RADIO FROM HOME, WHEREVER HOME WAS
FM stops at the border. The internet doesn't. Choose from over 30,000 internet radio stations around the world, in dozens of languages, from radio-browser.info, a free community directory. If a station's stream stops, Home Station switches to another stream of the same station, never to a different one.

TURN AN OLD PHONE INTO A RADIO IN ONE VISIT
1. Install Home Station on a spare Android phone or tablet. One plugged in next to their chair works best, at home or in a care home; their own phone works too.
2. The radio shows a code. Scan it with your phone's camera, or type it in, and the radio is connected to you.
3. Choose three stations. From then on, you change everything from your phone.

GOOD TO KNOW
• Works on Android 7 or newer, over Wi-Fi or mobile data. You can limit it to Wi-Fi.
• A family member or caregiver needs a Home Station account at gethomestation.com to set it up and look after it.
• The radio's screens are in English, French, German, Spanish, Polish and Turkish.
• Stations belong to their broadcasters. You choose which ones play.

Home Station is an application by MCusson (mcusson.com).

Privacy policy: https://gethomestation.com/privacy