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We did discuss this as a family and as her primary problem IS falling...we don't have many options. When she falls, she us usually disoriented for some time afterwards. She wouldn't be capable of pushing any buttons, and I assume that the panic type ones you're all referring to assume the person is capable of pushing a button. Mom isn't. I appreciate your responses and I will look into a wrist kind of one..but if it requires he to be "aware" of the situation....it won't work for her. Sure wish we'd all come to the agreement she'd be happier and better off in assisted living. This is just the beginning of the end, too. It's not going to get "better"...
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I have the complete opposite with my mom. She fell a couple of times and said that I could lift her up. She has one leg that is completely straight and does not bend. She cannot assist herself to get up. One night she fell, (she really falls quietly) and she decided to stay on the floor until I woke up the next morning! I did not hear her but it was not that late and I did get up to go to the bathroom and saw her , thank God. She is so worried about what others think and the sirens (they do not turn them on in the mobile home park) that she gets embarrassed. I agree with Pam, get the one without the fall detection.
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Maggie--
Thanks for your response. I initially said I'd be on the call list as I live so close and could get to her in 5 minutes. Now I don't want to be on it at all. It was set up by the sister who is pretty much never around, she she herself is not on the call list. WHY they call the whole list to tell us she is fine is beyond me. No point in getting mad at the person who calls, they're just doing their job...but to hear they've called 3 people ahead of me and that she is fine...just annoys me.
She'd LOVE a watch type thing--anything that shows her poor health condition. She saves her "sharps" in a clear plastic orange juice container and keeps 4-5 around her place so everyone can see them. I bought her a red sharps container that you send in to a place to be destroyed and she was not happy.
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My mom had a pendant on a lanyard and would put it under the collar on her blouse, then take the blouse off and put it in the dirty clothes hamper with the pendant still attached. Then she couldn't find it, of course. So I just had it switched to a wrist one, worn just like a watch. Problem solved. It's not a life alert, but one that the facility provides, but I would think any alert system would have several styles to choose from - just ask.
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Pam--do you know my mother? She did NOT ask for the fall button, you're right, it's part if the "us" against "her" thing. The whole thing came about because she WAS falling all the time. Or telling us she was, and that she'd fall and lie on the floor all night long (miraculously being able to get up at about 7 am before anyone else in the house was up)...she does so love attention, good or bad. Well, since I am not going to be involved with her care for the next 3+ weeks (MY drs orders)....I am just going to let my sisters and other brother handle her, Maybe they'll SEE what I have been saying for ages!
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She is laughing up her sleeve while you all are running around in a panic. If she didn't ask for the %^&* pendant, get rid of it. If she did ask for it, get the one without the fall detection.
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That's a thought. It hangs to her knees when she "stands" . I'm not sure if we can, but I will pass that on to my brother. It's really only supposed to go off if she actually FALLS!
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Shorten the cord around her neck? No, not that far, just short enough so it doesn't bang into things.
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Sign her up for one of the services that offers a wristwatch instead of a pendant. Perhaps that'll make calls less likely. I might also suggest you give the call center a more restricted call list. Would seem to me that once they've gotten hold of ANYONE on the list, their job is done. ??
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