Mom keeps taking off her personal fall alert necklace, any alternatives?

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Mom keeps taking off her personal fall alert necklace, any alternatives?

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Does the company offer other devices like a bracelet? Could the bracelet be used as an ankle monitor?
Can the necklace be placed in a pocket each morning? She would not notice it so probably she would leave it alone.
You might also want to consider putting security cameras in the house that you can monitor on your phone.

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Philips Lifeline does offer a bracelet but it doesn't have the fall detection feature, only the necklace which does work as it has gone off in the past and the operators speak through the large monitor.

My Mom is so confused that I don't even know if she knows to press the button. She's only familiar with tasks from her past years except the telephone.

I already have 2 security cameras so I will set them up as I can see her on my phone.

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You say you are only leaving her for under an hour while you run errands - I get that you want to enclose her in bubble wrap but I'm not sure that any devise is going to buy anything more than a (false?) feeling of security and perhaps a lessening of unjustified guilty feelings. Imagine she falls now while you are at the store and you don't find her until you return home in 20 minutes. Now imagine you are at the store and you get an alert or you check the security app on your phone and you see her on the floor, so you drop everything and rush home in a panic to assess the damage. How much have you gained?

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I understand what you are saying but if I saw that she fell on my phone while I was at the store I would call 911. I wouldn't have to panic and rush home though knowing me I would drop everything and come home. Groceries can wait.

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Why don't you just get some inexpensive security cameras, that you can access from your smart phone, when you are away? I had a camera on the mantel in my living room where my husband was in the hospital bed,(he was bedridden), and I too was his 24/7 caregiver, so when I did have to go out, I could just check on him through my phone. Because your mom is mobile, you would just need to place the cameras throughout your house. The camera gave me great peace of mind. I have the Blink Security cameras, and mine are the older ones that you only can hear on them , where now the ones they have have where you can hear what's going on, and also talk to the person as well. I think I only paid like $200, for 3 cameras, and the module. Worth every penny.

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I actually have 2 Blink Security Camera's (I bought them for different reasons) and now they are not being used.

Thanks for reminding me that I have them so I could set one up in my Mom's bedroom (where she spends most of her time) and the hallway which she uses to go to the bathroom.

She doesn't remember how to use the telephone and/or answer the telephone (which I forget to mention in my original post).

I will set up my Blink camera's.

Thanks, Jenna

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Does Lifeline make a watchband type device?

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Yes but it doesn't have the fall detection feature.

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