Hi
Very sorry that this is happening. We were in the same position about 6 years ago (with my Mum). We successfully used a baby monitor, so I don't know why it doesn't work for your friend. Really we only needed it for during the night if she needed to call us. We always made sure that one of us stayed the night with her (we all lived outside the home at this stage), and then she could call us during the night. She would just call out (she wasn't aware of the monitor as such) and obviously we would hear her over the monitor. Also, before trying the monitor, we had put a phone on the wall beside her bed (downstairs), and dialled one of the family (who would be "on duty" that night), and so that family member left the phone off the hook (on speaker), and my Mum's one was on speaker, and she could shout out and be heard. HOWEVER, that wasn't very successful because the person "on call" wouldn't hear a thing unless they were awake and taking notice ... which wasn't always the case. This was something that we tried before my Mum became very very bad, and while she was still living alone, but in the final analysis the baby monitor was the way to go and worked very successfully for us. I'm sorry I can't be more helpful.