Any recommendations for medical/fall alert monitoring for the elderly?

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We’ve had a big thread about this:

Dying alone: what safety measures are feasible?

Living alone has a lot of benefits, but also a few dangers. The classic danger is falling ill when you’re home alone and not being able to reach a phone for help. It’s not that irrational a fear; brain strokesare more common then people think and can incapacitate the sufferer so that he she cannot walk or crawl to a phone. You may say: “If I don’t show up at work, they’ll contact me”. But what if they call you on the phone, don’t reach you and… then what? They might notice your absence, but…