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I'd strongly suggest the fall protection. Then, even if mom is the type to NOT press the button? If she free falls, she'll alert the service.
Family friend fell in the bathroom. She was a diabetic. She was found dead on the floor 12 hours later. Was she conscious when she landed? Don't know. But what I DO know is that she made a conscious choice not to spend the $50 for a Life Alert Alarm -- which, presumably, would have likely went off. Or, being as she was so cheap? She'd have been so excited to get her money's worth, she'd have pressed it herself.
She was worth over a million dollars when she died. Found she couldn't take it with her after all.
As an example...I wanted to know when a gnat was coming to her door...I have sine scaled it down some and only want to know when the front...back...or side door have been opened.
The alert is sent right to my iPhone or iPad and I can also see live streaming video. Both my brother and I can.
We hid the base...because our Mother doesn't understand how to work it...and honestly neither do we...so a panic button is useless...check into it. I think total to set it up was somewhere in the $1200 range. Totally worth the money.
I have to laugh about this...because a long term care facility that I was looking at for my Mom...called Adult Protective Services on me...when they came out and saw everything my brother and I had in place for my Mom...they were taking notes to share with others! Love it!
I know my Dad would know how to use it, if he doesn't try to open up the call box to see how it works.... [sigh, that's the electrical engineer in himself]. But Dad doesn't want one because "those are for old people".... HELLO, Dad, you are now 93. Guess he'll get one when he is 103.
As for my Mom, she would be too overwhelmed to remember to push the button, and with her poor hearing she wouldn't hear the call box if someone was asking if she needs help.
my elder has a panic button that came with the security system. It will work in a pinch. However, she did NOT use it when she did fall a couple of months back. Why??? "I didn't know what it would do." idiot. and don't say it's because she's old please. she has pulled this stubborn stupid all her life.
two cents ¢¢
Fall Alert systems are triggered by acceleration (the fall) and a sudden stop (the floor THUD). The problems are: nuisance alarms if she drops it, and NO alarm if she slides off a chair or grips something to slow the fall.
Fall Alerts triple the cost of the medical alert system.
Mom's system would test call her daily, and sometimes she would not hear, or ignore the test call. This created multiple problems.
When she did fall, multiple times, she never pushed the %&&* button