personal alarms for the older person
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Get one of these. Brilliant piece of kit and has multiple uses. We've got one for Father-in-Law who has on-set dementia. Has a habit of sometimes getting 'lost' on his daily walk. We have tracked/found him easily. Has an emergency call button but like others have said we don't rely on this.
For £22.50 and £3pm service if you hard-wired this into a car it must be the cheapest tracker you can have.
https://eshop.v.vodafone.com/uk/vf-smart-tech?adob...
For £22.50 and £3pm service if you hard-wired this into a car it must be the cheapest tracker you can have.
https://eshop.v.vodafone.com/uk/vf-smart-tech?adob...
The 'didn't want to make a fuss' is a significant problem.
I've been called to an old person's house when their kids haven't been able to establish contact. They often say, 'but she's got an alarm, so I don't think it can be serious.' When I've got there the person's either had a fall or perhaps in bed with flu or something. If you ask them why they didn't use their buzzer, they'll say - well you can guess.
There was an 85-year-old living opposite me. She got about a bit so when my wife said she wasn't in her front garden as normal and didn't answer her phone nor the doorbell. I went in via the back door where she had hidden, as I had guessed, a key under a flower pot, and found her half way down the stairs bleeding from a cut varicose vein. It was touch and go with her and the excellent ambulance crew brought her through. When we visited her in hospital, she told us she had nicked her vein that morning with a nail she'd cut. She was making her way downstairs to phone a friend, rather than press the emergency buzzer.
Yet the was blood in her bedroom, on the landing and half way down the stairs. It was like a charnel house. My wife and I, thinking she might die, cleaned it up as best we could so that her son and daughter-in-law would not be shocked when they turned up. As we were doing it, my wife said that if I, as a police officer, turned up at that moment, I'd be suspicious.
Spoke with the son-in-law and he said that, in his opinion, it was the behaviour of those who suffered during and after the war. 'Don't make a fuss, there're worse off than you' is something I was told by my aunts.
I don't know the answer. Regular phone calls, if they are on a landline then phones on all floors, one in the living room and another in the kitchen so they haven't far to go. But you have no hope of convincing them that it's not making a fuss.
Neighbours are the best hope I think.
I've been called to an old person's house when their kids haven't been able to establish contact. They often say, 'but she's got an alarm, so I don't think it can be serious.' When I've got there the person's either had a fall or perhaps in bed with flu or something. If you ask them why they didn't use their buzzer, they'll say - well you can guess.
There was an 85-year-old living opposite me. She got about a bit so when my wife said she wasn't in her front garden as normal and didn't answer her phone nor the doorbell. I went in via the back door where she had hidden, as I had guessed, a key under a flower pot, and found her half way down the stairs bleeding from a cut varicose vein. It was touch and go with her and the excellent ambulance crew brought her through. When we visited her in hospital, she told us she had nicked her vein that morning with a nail she'd cut. She was making her way downstairs to phone a friend, rather than press the emergency buzzer.
Yet the was blood in her bedroom, on the landing and half way down the stairs. It was like a charnel house. My wife and I, thinking she might die, cleaned it up as best we could so that her son and daughter-in-law would not be shocked when they turned up. As we were doing it, my wife said that if I, as a police officer, turned up at that moment, I'd be suspicious.
Spoke with the son-in-law and he said that, in his opinion, it was the behaviour of those who suffered during and after the war. 'Don't make a fuss, there're worse off than you' is something I was told by my aunts.
I don't know the answer. Regular phone calls, if they are on a landline then phones on all floors, one in the living room and another in the kitchen so they haven't far to go. But you have no hope of convincing them that it's not making a fuss.
Neighbours are the best hope I think.
My dad had Careline in his later years.
I believe calls are answered by a call centre, and they can then take the appropriate action as directed by the caller.
He had a list of neighbours numbers on his, with me and my brother at the end of the list so as not to bother us!
I don't know how their prices compare, but they seemed pretty good.
I believe calls are answered by a call centre, and they can then take the appropriate action as directed by the caller.
He had a list of neighbours numbers on his, with me and my brother at the end of the list so as not to bother us!
I don't know how their prices compare, but they seemed pretty good.
My Mum has Careline as well. She had a stroke last year and is now in a wheelchair. She actually had a fall moving from her wheelchair to the sofa and used the button. Luckily nothing was hurt but a bit of pride.
The call centre are very good. They encourage you to test the button every month, so the call centre are well versed in people "testing" their systems and presumably false alarms as well.
The call centre are very good. They encourage you to test the button every month, so the call centre are well versed in people "testing" their systems and presumably false alarms as well.
Thanks for all your responses but I still have not found the solution for a really independent person who would hate having to carry an alarm and who definitely would not want to be tracked. I was thinking more a long the lines of an pocket type alarm which is not GPS tracked but if the button is pressed it would send an alert to my phone
Has anyone come across such a device / app please?
Thanks
Has anyone come across such a device / app please?
Thanks
Twentyfour7 said:
Thanks for all your responses but I still have not found the solution for a really independent person who would hate having to carry an alarm and who definitely would not want to be tracked. I was thinking more a long the lines of an pocket type alarm which is not GPS tracked but if the button is pressed it would send an alert to my phone
Has anyone come across such a device / app please?
Thanks
My MIL had one of those big button phones with an SOS button programed to call our mobiles.Has anyone come across such a device / app please?
Thanks
I've been looking at one of these for my Mum: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Acticheck-Connected-Wrist...
Thank you good ideas but I had bought the big button phones,had to send them back , he did not like them
I am not sure he will wear a wrist device either
I have discovered Mysosfamily also today
https://www.mysosfamily.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwqeWKBhB...
does anyone have experience of this please?
I am not sure he will wear a wrist device either
I have discovered Mysosfamily also today
https://www.mysosfamily.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwqeWKBhB...
does anyone have experience of this please?
I’m looking for something which my dad can carry around the house (panic button thing) and if he presses it, I would get a notification on my phone (I’m 5 miles away).
Obviously his button would need to connect to his wifi or something.
Does such a thing exist? I see there’s loads on Amazon for about £20 but these seem to be local only (ie the phone and button need to be located in the same vicinity?).
Obviously his button would need to connect to his wifi or something.
Does such a thing exist? I see there’s loads on Amazon for about £20 but these seem to be local only (ie the phone and button need to be located in the same vicinity?).
audi321 said:
I’m looking for something which my dad can carry around the house (panic button thing) and if he presses it, I would get a notification on my phone (I’m 5 miles away).
Obviously his button would need to connect to his wifi or something.
Does such a thing exist? I see there’s loads on Amazon for about £20 but these seem to be local only (ie the phone and button need to be located in the same vicinity?).
Take a look at the link I posted above Obviously his button would need to connect to his wifi or something.
Does such a thing exist? I see there’s loads on Amazon for about £20 but these seem to be local only (ie the phone and button need to be located in the same vicinity?).
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