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PERSONAL ALARMS FOR THE ELDERLY....... ANY ONE HAD DEALINGS WITH THEM

My neighbour had the basic system with a wrist band, peace of mind but when she accidentally activated it the operator spent 10 minutes asking where are you -can you hear me because the unit wouldn't pick up her voice.
I head the alarm through the wall and I couldn't get through to the operator to stand down and reset either, after that length of time they should have called an ambulance or me as I was first contact.
 
My 104 year old granny has only just gone into a care home. She previously lived in a bungalow near my aunt. She'd have a carer go in every morning and evening, and my aunt would visit once or twice a day. After a few falls they got her alarm, but she was too stubborn to use it.

My aunt and the carers would often find her on the floor trying to pull herself up 'Oh, I didn't want to bother anyone.'

So just make sure the person will actually use it if they need to!
 
Council provided one for my Dad, it is hard to get them to wear it all the time but at least if it is provided it is not an outlay to test.
His lady friend also had had one for years (98yo), again provided by local services.
 
Elderly neighbour had one, female early 90's, her family were a long way off so we said we'd respond, anyway it went off, went round, she was OK it was an accidental activation, she then lifted up her top to show me the alarm which was round her neck, nothing on underneath, the sight of her baps looking as flat as a spaniels ears that have been shaved will haunt me until I die once seen it can never be unseen
 
Well, we have placed the order this morning for one and fingers crossed if everything has been filled in correctly ( 10 page application) it should be here tomorrow.
There’s not a chance in the world they would have understood how to go through all those pages.
Hopefully VAT free as well
Fingers crossed it arrives when they say so we can call in when passing and get it up and running for them.

Thanks for all the comments above.
 
I ended up putting camera's up so the whole family could see what was going on and check up that me mum was ok no false alarms and I was notified when anyone came near the house not cheap but worth every penny as false alarms had me racing to find out what was wrong I could not phone as had to disconnect the phone because of phone salesmen they seemed to now she was an easy mark as she would agree to anything just to get rid of them even caught a thieving carer
 
Resurrected thread....

I am in the market for personal alarms for mine and the better halves parent(s)
Does anyone have any recent experience as this thread is a couple of years old.
Any advice appreciated. (y)
 
My mother in law & dad are using a company called Careuim.(careline)
He wears a watch style alarm on his wrist and i think its around £17 per month and you can have 3 people to call on there system.
 
My parents had an alarm set up from Careline, up until mum passed away 7 years ago. It worked really well & was used for real by mum on 2 occasions & Dad used it 3 times. It always worked perfectly & there were hardly any false alarms.

My inlaws who lived locally initially had one provided through Age UK by PP Taking care, It was an utter disaster with the pendants being far to sensitive & very easy to set off. This meant regular false alarms at all times of the day & night, often at 2:30am. After the 5th such false alarm in one week we ripped it out.
In addition the PP taking care staff were pushy & despite being told not to speak to my inlaws because of their dementia did so behind our backs & caused more grief. Avoid PP taking care like the plague, awful outfit.
Their unit was replaced by a Careline one & there were no more problems.
 
My mother in law uses one via the local Council.

Its on the mobile network rather than the landline which is being done away with at some point.

My mother in law has only had to use it a few times apart from the test they tell her to do a few times a month to make sure its working.

Its gone up in cost recently as below
The charge for Community Alarm is £3.75 per week, and Telecare is £3.75 per week. Charge is maxed at £7.50 per week. This is invoiced annually.

Please be aware the charge will be updated as of 1st April 2025 and will rise to £6.04 per week for Community Alarm and £6.04 for Telecare.

My sister in law and my in laws neighbour are the emergency contact numbers.


Press the fob and it sends the signal via the base station and the Mic in it can pick up your voice from a good distance, No speaking into the fob.

My sister in law got her a GPS one but my mother in law rarely goes out and if she does one of the family is always with her.
 
We have this for my dad now mum has passed and he lives on his own.
Got to say its brilliant, we went with the watch as he said only old gits wear a necklace!!
It works, i am the main contact as i only live a couple of miles away, if he presses the SOS button i get put through to him straight the way and can talk to him via his watch. The phone app tracks his movements and we can see where he is all the time and where hes been.
We’ve had a few situations where he’s accidentally hit the SOS button one being earlier in the year when i was in Greece and my brother in Barcelona we both had a notification, he sounded a bit confused so i phoned my son to go and check on him and he was in the garden happily pottering about and couldn’t figure out what all the fuss was about.
Definately recommend.
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My mum had both a pendant and a watch type one. Both normally found in a drawer in the lounge. 🫥

I think I saw recently that some of these types of alarm will stop working as old style copper lines are being decommissioned. Might be worth a check.
 
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