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Big Button phone from Lidl

Farway
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From 6 Jan Lidl have a big button phone, with an SOS pendant

Pressing pendant cals first emergy number programmed in, if no response it call next one on list etc

£34.99

Details here

http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/SID-E80B0D08-2B276896/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/offerdate.htm?offerdate=16718
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  • SailorSam
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    Argos have a selection of big button phones from a tenner.
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  • Farway
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    edited 1 January 2011 at 3:44PM
    SailorSam wrote: »
    Argos have a selection of big button phones from a tenner.

    I just knew someone would find a cheaper one. My main point, possibly not expressed well, was not the big buttons but the SOS pendant, do they have SOS pendant facility?

    I have not checked Argos & TBH cannot be ar5ed, but the SOS pendant facility was the best bit I thought

    Prior to her death my mum had SOS pendant, for which we paid a monthly fee [and no the Social Services / Council did not provide free one]

    All this pendant did was dial a call centre in Devon and they phoned a nominated person [neighbour / keyholder] to pop in. They did not, nor did Council / Social services have provision to send any one round. This was Tory rural Wiltshire, not a Socialist Republic in a northern city

    So, the £39.99 could be a cheaper option than paying a call centre to do what you / carer can do anyway, which is call someone else to pop in

    DYOR

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  • missile
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    My mother has a pendant but she doesn't like wearing it <Sih>
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  • Farway
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    missile wrote: »
    My mother has a pendant but she doesn't like wearing it <Sih>

    Nor did mine, always on the bedside table, so when she fell out of bed one night she lay freezing on the floor all night until the carer turned up in the morning :(
    When an eel bites your bum, that's a Moray
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