I should add… if you don’t answer the call, the company will start to call people on a list you previously provided them. So you could say call 911 first. Then call my son.
Every older or handicapped person (or couple) should seriously consider getting such a service.
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Considered, no thanks........
My neighbor's HVAC went sideways while she was at work and the alarm notified her and she called the FD. When they showed up the CO levels were over 400ppm - loss of consciousness in less than a minute and death in 3-4 minutes more. Fortunately her dogs were in the garage.
Interesting idea, imagine this service would not have saved them, just would have found them before decomposing.
This certainly was certainly suspicious
My wife’s mom had that Life Alert - she set it off accidentally like 3 times and I was the one that had to go to her house to see if she was ok (we were first point of contact). It was nice to see the thing worked.
My MIL lived in a facility if the toilet didn’t flush by 8:00 a.m., they would send a nurse to check on you.
The American Legion has their Buddy Check program. As an honorably discharged Marine Gene Hackman could have used that.
I didn’t know that.
I was already thinking about my older brother. He lives alone and will be 75 this summer.
I plan to talk to him about a daily check-in to see if he’s ok. We live an hour and a half away so would like to have a contact of someone he trusts locally who would agree to check on him if he doesn’t reply in a timely manner.
But for people w/o reliable family or family at all, who can check, the service could literally be a life saver.
To what end?
If you’re dead, you’re dead. And all earthly cares thus falleth away....
I purchased that alarm system for my mother in 2014 she was 96 at the time. When I would visit I would activate the system and it would take them 8 minutes to answer on their best days.
5 years in a hot Kansas July ago one of my across the street neighbors, heavily overweight and in his late 50s, had a heart attack. The police showed up in response to a welfare check by his brother. An ambulance was called A young female EMT rushed out of the house and threw up in the front yard. He had been dead for 4 or 5 days by that point. It was not nice.
I have scammers call me daily, does that count?
It is a good idea to have some sort of check-in system, for sure.
Good of you to remind people.