We signed Mom up for Medical Guardian, specifically for the fall detection. She has fallen five or six times without it alerting, and alerted one time when she hadn't fallen. I'm in contact with customer service, but has anyone else had this issues, specifically with this company?
Can you recommend another service that worked well for you or your LO?
We had a fall pendant and after about 6 months they started charging our card the monthly fee every week. We had to cancel the card to get it to quit.
We ended up dropping the watch idea altogether when someone recommended the TV box, called Jubille, that solved the problem. It's not a fall detection device in the traditional sense. It's more of an ambient monitoring system that watches for changes in her regular routines. So, if she usually goes to the kitchen for coffee at 7 AM, and doesn't move around for some period, it detects unusual activity and alerts me.
It is not useful for a sudden fall, but it has a camera that allows me to see what's happening at any moment, and I can always check on her when I'm out. It has some other features that are useful, so overall it solved some of my problems.
Still, I am always looking for something new and trying to help her and myself with technology as much as I can.
They are availed directly from the company or from Amazon.
Go to an elder attorney and a social worker for assistance. If she has no money, is or unable to get Medicaid assistance, seeking local aging council should help. That’s ridiculous that a facility won’t help her. It’s the screwy government who won’t pay. Until she is nearly dead??
anyhow, it and they work.
when he falls, they call him on the watch. even if he answers and is ok, they check back in a few minutes later thru his phone.
fallback is calling mine, and because i’m Deaf and relay is bleh, we decided that i just put their number in my phone and if they call, i know.
they call quickly, they seem concerned, they have called each time. the watch went off once when he just threw it onto his bed, but he got to the oops button before they called.
it was easy to set up, costs $55 a month, and i feel MUCH more confident that he is ok. at 93 he’s fragile, but he’d managed to wander and then fall several times without his phone.
once he fell and fractured his femur and did the army crawl but didn’t make it to his phone. my cats told me something was wrong. [ not the dog i’d been relying on, the cats ]
that was when i decided to tell his dr he needed ….something. as dad had a friend with a life alert buton who fell down, got stuck for 3 days and FORGOT she had the button, a neighbor rescued her. i knew that was not for us. doctor agreed, and watch and fall detection it is.
it’s far simpler than most smart watches, and he doesn’t actually use it for anything else but telling time [ o look, pretty watch face! ] it charges in a simple dock.
worth it.
The fall alert proved useful for us. My mother used it when she fell and needed help. My sister got there right away and so did EMS.
It may be time for her to go to assisted living where she has 24/7 monitoring and assistance.
She's living with me and as much as I would love for her to be anywhere else on this planet, wheels are turning slowly to get her in LTC.