In trying to find a stripped-down, TV-only remote for my mom, who was born in 1929 and is a brain injury survivor, as well as someone who suffers from a degenerative brain disease, resulting in bouts of dementia, I could find NOTHING of any use. Even that Tek-Pak one in one of the links above is too confusing for her. We have it. I've found the up/down channel buttons to be a nightmare for her (and me, as I try talk her through it from work). She gets the channel buttons confused with the volume and keeps pressing them instead, so the poor thing is usually on snow or the religious channel, which is right above the one with her ABC soap opera in our market, when I get home from work. The "Ch" and "Vol" abbreviations mean nothing to her most days. After buying all sorts of "senior-friendly" TV remotes the last couple of years, this weekend I finally took a knife and scissors to her Tak-Pak remote, removing the channel buttons. (On a previous universal remote, I gouged out the VCR, DVD buttons and duct taped them since she, too, kept deactivating the TV mode.) I also had to take out the on/off button this time, as that confused her, too. So, I'm hoping this week she can finally operate the TV with just the volume up/down and mute buttons intact. She only ever watches one channel, so there's no need to change it, and if she wants peace and quiet, she can just press mute. I covered the now-empty holes where the other buttons were with paper and wrote LOUD/SOFT and MUTE in big letters next to the remaining buttons with a Sharpie marker. I also had to draw a big arrow to guide her to point the remote at the TV, as she either holds it backwards toward herself or pointing up to the ceiling as she looks at the buttons. Living with brain injury and deterioration (both for the patient and the caregiver) is quite a challenge. It was good to find this site to see my mom's not the only one with these challenges. But I'm also disappointed to see that you guys confirm there's nothing on the market to help folks like my mom and others listed here by you all. Now the next challenge -- how do I find a non-confusing TV with closed captioning big enough to see (ours is from 1990 and has none) with a bigger screen so my mom can see and understand the TV, which has now also become a challenge. From what I've discovered, HDTVs are not very friendly for those who are both hearing and visually impaired (and with brain disorders) with the smaller closed captioning and complicated remote controls! :-(