GB wrote:
> 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?
>
>
The ones I have seen allow you to put on whatever numbers you want - so
there would be nothing to stop you putting 999 on the list.
However, IIUC, the emergency services may not respond to a "home"
automated call, because of the high false alarm rate. Plus, if the thing
did develop a fault and make repeated calls - they could get very
"convictional" about it.
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Sue
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