Need a commercial bright squeeze light for a dementia relative

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I need a super bright indoor light for my dementia relative who will forget to turn it off, but needs a ton of light.

He has Charles Bonnet Syndrome, not crazy, but his brain fills in missing information with vivid hallucinating of faces and people who are silent. His left rear occipital lobe was injured 45 years ago and the brain fills in missing information with incredibly vivid people. One solu would be wearing a bright squeeze light around his neck and shining it at the dark area that his brain is filling in with the vivid person. Any light that can be left on will be used constantly, and sleep is his other issue, since he has been sleeping 3 hours every 72, partly because of bright lights and TV in his apartment and partly because he is terrified to go to sleep because he believes people are getting into his apartment and walking around. We know know from the brain scan that there is a dark spot in this visual region of the brain from his fall in 1980, and his brain is just filling in missing visual information.

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“Squeeze light”? “Lots of light”? “Forgets to turn off”? Etc.

Not sure what you’re asking for. Auto-turnoff? AAs? Li cell? Big? Small?

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How and by whom do you expect the light to be recharged?

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Would a momentary only switch work? Do they have enough fine motor control to push a small-ish button?

The question on charging is a good one. Can they recharge a separate cell battery, might they be able to plug in a USB cable, magnetic connecter, or would you want a big battery and you would charge it on occasion?

Or are you talking squeeze light as in the dynamo “crank” lights that you squeeze a lever to power the light?

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I’m a little confused as to what you’re looking for too but have a different idea to offer. How about motion sensing lights? We got some that look like regular light bulbs that include the motion sensor. You wouldn’t need to worry about recharging them, there’s nothing to do to turn them on and they go off on their own. They may be reassuring to your relative too knowing the lights would come on if someone was in his home.
https://www.amazon.com/Detector-Equivalent-Daylight-Activated-Security/dp/B0CCDM6983/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=ZDP3HJND6GRL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Mp_QJj4yzqUxka_pp7woXJcIIfniH4oZUon_tTfakmkZw6CwJt5qs9eQGJMEQWLakUuO5-VaegXLC9MkeLvkFTYbyICsdxn3cYd3o9-2C-5oFmTPEtQU4cuXR_1rKPKQ0mkkVIKWgMHNZqoEI8GMHvIbAW5eLuWh95RRF_2AhkS41XFKICh0tfc_vRS0hcKazZJ6tANmN6kmqP4MZOwIyw.fLb4qlKYZ6lMEps9kXc4aMTF0Pw0im46cdxDbFfAC5w&dib_tag=se&keywords=motion+sensing+light+bulb&qid=1743280003&sprefix=motion+sensing+%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-3
The above is similar to what I’m referring to.

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Old people lack motor control, ability to learn new things, ability to see in low light, ability to see small things.

I think swappable 18650s are best.

So far, he only has been able to operate the old style slider mag light style light, and the squeeze light is too dim, and the tail cap button too hard to press. However, there is no way I can afford to keep buying c or do cells. I personally hate nimh.

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So how do You feel about an anduril light set to momentary mode? There are plenty bright ones, button is light-specific

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I literally thought this last night as I was using my Sofirn SP10!

I wonder if for reliability it would be better to flash a modified Andruil with “momentary only”.

Or perhaps with an auto shutoff after 5 minutes?

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Or we can get Andrew to do it, along with Andrew’s RGB design…

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How’s it to be charged?

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Ni-Mh is a safer chemistry but if you want li-ion, protected 18650/ 21700 is a good choice.