These systems where you carry around a button to press if you “…fall down and can’t get up” or have other medical emergencies, to get somebody to contact 911, call designated friends, relatives, etc.
A search turned up a gazillion, all different prices, but basically the same system.
Alert One in PA seems most reasonable, but of course price isn’t everything. Anybody have experience with any of them?
Now that my stupid ticker can no longer be trusted, seems like a good idea in case my wife is off galavanting around and/or shopping, which takes up a good part of her day.
My Mom used Lifeline before she moved into a retirement village with its own system. She found them to be very responsive and polite. Nothing but praise.
If you have a monitored home security system (eg: ADT, Protection One, etc) almost all of those systems offer wireless panic buttons that you can carry, in addition to the panel-based panic function (typically pressing * and # together).
There’s probably no extra monthly charge for it, other than possibly a modest purchase charge for the wireless device itself.
This seems more IMHO than GQ. But anyway: My parents use LifeLine. My father has Parkinson’s and is prone to choking, falling, and has low-blood-pressure issues. Last year, he was choking on a piece of lettuce, went off to the bathroon sink to hock it up (a regular occurrence in the house until then … he’s no longer allowed to eat lettuce), and passed out on the floor. My mother ran in and hit the lifeline button on his wristband while she heimliched him. If she had been forced to choose between one or the other (treating him vs taking time to call 911) he might now be dead. I would endorse LifeLine.
Exactly. I’ve added medical alert to customer accounts in the past with a wireless receiver, a pendant button, and usually an indoor strobe to tell the occupant they’ve activated the system as well as confirming to responding authorities that the door must be forced if no one answers.
