How to find a medical alarm that really meets your needs
In addition to the common question of whether Medicare pays for medical alarm systems (it doesn't), another frequent question is whether a person can get financial help in paying for a medical …
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The Traverse City Ticker reports that an elderly woman living in Glen Arbor was stuck in her garage for a full day after falling. She was unable to get back to the house to reach a phone and call for …
KOMO news from Seattle recently published an advice article on how to buy a medical alert system. In it they repeated the warning/advice from Consumer Reports that you should make sure the alert …
I read an interesting story today about a new piece of legislation that's been proposed in Washington State. Here's the backstory. In 2014, the remote community of the San Juan Islands lost phone …
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Philips LifeLine is one of the biggest companies in the medical alert industry. They have over 7 million customers and claim to be recommended by 90,000 health care professionals and hospitals. They …
No fee alerts call your friends and family instead of a monitoring station. Some people like them because you don’t have to pay the monthly fee to the monitoring company. I'm lukewarm on the …
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The standard speakerphone medical alert from One Call Alert is disappointing. The system is bargain priced, but there is no money back guarantee. You have to buy 3 months of service. They …
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The Libris from LiveWell is my top-rated mobile medical alarm with fall detection. It's pretty extraordinary, actually. For the same price as you'd pay for a fall detection medical alarm …
Innovations in senior alert systems Probably when you think about medical alarm systems, you think about the old-fashioned ones you often see advertised on TV. These are what I call …
Starting a conversation about medical alert systems is tough. You’re basically telling someone you don’t think they can take care of themselves anymore. It’s not something any of us, young or …
Never buy a medical alert from a company that forces you to sign a long-term contract. Just don’t do it. Each year tens of thousands of people make this mistake. They make a 'til death do us …
It used to be that all medical alarms were for home-bound people. Not anymore. Now there are dozens of systems on the market that work anywhere you go. These mobile medical alarms use cellular …
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