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.
Although there are a variety of no-fee medical alerts on the market, the models from LogicMark are the only ones I can recommend. They’re very well designed, which is why they get 4 stars even though I think you should consider a monitored system. That’s because they have 2-way communication through the pendant. This is a critical feature for any kind of medical alarm, but especially for one that doesn’t dial a monitoring center.
I particularly like the LogicMark Freedom Alert because it can be programmed to dial friends/family and/or 911.
Features of the Freedom Alert:
- Program up to 4 personal contacts
- Slide switch on unit allows to select 3 modes:
- Call up to 4 custom contacts
- Call up to 4 custom contacts & then emergency 911
- Call 911 directly
- Dial 5 feature: Call recipient is prompted to press ’5′ to continue emergency call. If the call hits voice mail and ’5′ is not pressed, the next programmed number will be dialed automatically
- System test and battery test functions. Battery lasts 6 months.
- Audible prompts and confirmations during set-up and testing
- Combination of up to 4 pendants or Emergency Wall Communicators programmed to one base station
- Auto power off of pendant after one minute of inactivity
- 24 hour emergency battery back-up
- Extra telephone jack in base unit
- Water resistant pendant
Details:
- Overall rating
- 4 Stars
- Type of System
- Home based no-fee alert
- Connection
- Land line
- Fall detection
- No
- Activation range
- 600 feet
- Communications range
- 600 feet
- Water resistance
- Pendant is water resistant.
- Battery life
- 6 months for pendant, 24 hr backup for base station
- Price per month, paid monthly
- No monthly charge
- Price per month, paid quarterly
- No monthly charge
- Price per month, paid annually
- No monthly charge
- Price of unit
- Retail $279, sometimes as low as $204
- Money back guarantee
- Depends on where you buy it.
- Cancellation policy
- n/a
- Notes
- If you’re set on a no-fee alert instead of a monitored medical alarm, this is the only one I can recommend.
- Where to buy
- Amazon usually has good deals
Pricing listed was accurate at the time this review was created/edited, but may have changed in the meantime.
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