I’ve just about decided between two different services, Medical Home Alert or Medical Guardian which seem to be practically identical (same price, seemingly same service); is there anything about the two that would make one better than the other for an active senior who is getting a device simply because she lives alone and has no particular regularity to her schedule, so if she got hurt, no one might realize that she hadn’t been around for days.
Also both of these providers have responded when I asked about the one company that has a system that responds when you fall down even if you don’t push the button, and they both said that for an active senior like me there’s be a lot of false responses because that system isn’t really very good at distinguishing between someone simply bending down, or stretching out , or things like that, and a genuine fall. Is that true?
It looks to me as if these services are pretty much the same, but I haven’t spoken to them directly to find out the differences. This kind of system is workable if you’re always within voice range of the base station, so if you spend a lot of time outside in the garden they might not be as good (the button should still work, but you won’t be able to have a two-way communication with the monitoring center).
I agree that the fall response systems will not be effective in your situation. Until the systems get more sophisticated they’re going to over-react to normal movements of an active person.
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Alan
I’ve just about decided between two different services, Medical Home Alert or Medical Guardian which seem to be practically identical (same price, seemingly same service); is there anything about the two that would make one better than the other for an active senior who is getting a device simply because she lives alone and has no particular regularity to her schedule, so if she got hurt, no one might realize that she hadn’t been around for days.
Also both of these providers have responded when I asked about the one company that has a system that responds when you fall down even if you don’t push the button, and they both said that for an active senior like me there’s be a lot of false responses because that system isn’t really very good at distinguishing between someone simply bending down, or stretching out , or things like that, and a genuine fall. Is that true?
It looks to me as if these services are pretty much the same, but I haven’t spoken to them directly to find out the differences. This kind of system is workable if you’re always within voice range of the base station, so if you spend a lot of time outside in the garden they might not be as good (the button should still work, but you won’t be able to have a two-way communication with the monitoring center).
I agree that the fall response systems will not be effective in your situation. Until the systems get more sophisticated they’re going to over-react to normal movements of an active person.
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