Was thinking of moving my mom home and staying with her. Since she has a fall hazard on her order. I was told I should consider paying a nurse or someone to sit up at night , so that if my mother should try to get up someone would be awake to stop her. If Im asleep I might not hear hear her trying to get up ? Not sure if there is an alarm system or a type of baby monitor that could be used to wake me up should she try to get out of bed alone ?

From the research I have done, wearable PERS (Personal Emergency Response Systems) are rarely effective. As Marlo Sollitto pointed out, only 20% of pendant/panic button users actually use them when they need to. I think there needs to be something that can run at all times, and be implicit. I know SafePresence is working on some technology designed to be implicit and not be so burdening. I think the Safe-nTouch is one of their products. Check it out!

My father has one of the pendants with a senser that will detect a fall in many situations. Unfortunately he tucks it underneath his shirt and t-shirt so it probably will not give an accurate reading, especially if he falls. He also removes the pendant when he sleeps at night. Said it goes off on its own at times. So a trip to the bathroom if he feel could mean he's laying there for hours longer.

We built a separate apartment onto our home, for 94 year old mother. She gets around amazingly, gardens voraciously and keeps us all busy. However, our concern is that we can't hear anything from her apartment, and are looking for a device which she can depress a call for help that goes to our bedroom to alert us, vs alerting a company that will dispatch EMT, etc to our home.

Yes, my mother will not even use a panic button. She says her sister, who lived alone, had one, and when she used it, the firemen broke her door down. (Well, duh!) "I'm not going to have my door broken!! That's awful!" She'd rather lay there until someone finds her... Grrr.

Even now when she lives with us, if she falls at night, she'll lay there until morning so as "not to disturb my sleep."

I did a double-take on this. The link says, "... a new way to prevent falls", which makes no sense. But the actual article IS titled correctly.

Otherwise, it sounds good. My grandmother, at 105, could use this product. She agreed over 3 years ago to not get up in the middle of the night to use her walker to go to the bathroom. But she won't follow that rule, and cheats, despite having had a few falls in the past.

I don't want to rely on her mind and fingers working correctly with the usual pendant device, especially in the trauma following a fall. That 20% statistic confirms my suspicions, except that it's probably even worse for her age group.