...suggestions?

[Speedball]

My mom-in-law is 88 and lives in her own home and is quite self sufficent. She has a 2-D cell maglight she keeps around but after she saw my little Inova xo-3 she seems to like it but her fingers can not operate the tail clicky.

I'm open to suggestions for an easier to operate light w/o a til clicky and something just a bit smaller than the maglight. I thought about something with cr123 batteries with the long shelf light. I'd like to keep the price around fifty bucks or so.

THANKS and Happy Holidays.

 

[carmatic]

how about dropping a maglite bulb replacement? sure it might not be as good as a brand new torch but you get the benefits of LED and she gets to keep using her familiar torch

 

[lctorana]

2C with LED? Might be easier to grip than the 2D for a woman's hand, and with the LEDs, get decent run-time on the C cells...

 

[Marduke]

How about a 3C or 2C MagLite. Much smaller and lighter, but familiar replacement. With a LED dropin, it's a handy light.

 

[Speedball]

...thank's for the suggestions. I thought about the LED drop in replacement and the smaller familiar size C cell size is an excellent idea too.

Mmmmmm, switch on the side of the lights are not so popular and readily available. She really likes my smaller size light.

 

[lctorana]

It's a step or two down in quality from a Maglite, but you could look at something like this:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5759

or

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1781