<p>My sweet old mother lives alone and is looking into getting a medical alert system. Any advice/good experiences/horror stories? (BTW–I had no idea there were so many options, but it’s obviously a thriving business. Just wait til we boomers really hit. . . )</p>
<p>My mother had an alert system in her last years. It saved her life.<br>
She wore the Alert thing on her wrist like a watch. That was much less annoying than one swinging around her neck. </p>
<p>I can’t remember the name of the system (it’s been five years). She had the kind where a couple of different neighbors agreed to be contacts. When she fell and pressed the alert button, the call went to the Comapany’s system who made a call to the contact (neighbor) and medic. </p>
<p>It saved her life when she fell one night on the way to the bathroom, cutting her leg on a piece of furniture. She began bleeding profusely (was taking Coumadin). She pressed the Alert button on her wrist and the neighbor contact was there within minutes closely followed by the medic. If not for the Alert button, she may have bled to death before anyone ever got there.</p>