Palindrome wrote:
> GB wrote:
>> My MIL is getting on, and we are worried she may fall and nobody
>> know. She really needs one of those little buttons that she can
>> activate if she falls. Any suggestions, please?
>>
>>
> They are/were available on ebay for not a lot. A pendant that the MIL
> wears. A little box, like an answerphone, that plugs into a phone
> extension and the mains.
>
> When the pendant push button is activated, the unit phones a sequence
> of user-set phone numbers - if it gets no answer, it tries the next
> one and so on.
>
> They work a treat. If you get the robot voice message from the unit,
> you can ring back to see if it has been set off by mistake. Then rush
> there like a loon or phone a neighbour and ask them to pop around.
>
> However, they do need the MIL to have someone to phone, 24x7x365.
>
> You can get ones linked to a manned desk on a monthly subscription
> basis - the local Age Concern Office is probably the people to ask
> about these. Costs seem to vary greatly, depending on where in the
> country you are.
>
> Some of these screw up broadband a treat, they interfere with the
> line - so not so good if MIL has broadband. I've only come across
> this with a subscription system, not the el cheapo ebay ones.
>
Thanks, the age concern ones are really quite expensive, so I'll have a
little look on ebay. Funnily enough MIL has broadband, and she has taken
to
computers like a duck to frozen water - she's sliding all over the place,
but we live in hope. With the cheapo one, we should be able to get it to
dial mobile phone nos that are on 24/7, or can we put 999 on the list?
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