Personal Emergency Alarm?

Topaz99

I do hope this is the correct forum for this, but I am looking for a Personal alarm that someone elderly could use/wear and when they fall, it call directly to a specific mobile phone number?

My Father has terminal cancer, and is now very unsteady on his feet. We would prefer an Alarm he could wear but instead of it calling an outside source, it just needs to call my mums mobile immediately incase he falls.

Does something like this exist? I have had a look, but can only see Emergency alarms that call outside help/Ambulance, or personal alarms that deafen everybody in the street.

Or if someone has any other ideas for this situation, then even better?

Many thanks for your help

unrecordings

Maybe one of those phones specifically designed for the elderly with large buttons ? Get it set up with your mum's number as the one favourite and go through a few training drills with dad. Find a way he can keep it within arms reach and hold it/make calls without dropping it and minimise the steps/options required to make that call

I'm in a similar situation. I've an iphone I can barely hold - so I bought a cheap 99p silicone sleeve for it and always keep it charged/nearby. Mrs Un is the only favourite set up and she's quite often the last number called (another good emergency option)

As for the make of phone to recommend - I've only seen them fleetingly in those little catalogues you find in the radio times - Edited to add: Scot's/Scott's of Stowe ?

kingfisherblue

My mum has an 'old lady' mobile phone. It has an alarm button on it. When pressed, three people receive a text (me, my sister, and my daughter). Also, there are two buttons that you just need to hold down to ring pre-set numbers (my number and my daughter's - my sister lives much further away).


It's a Pay As You Go phone, so no monthly payment, and wasn't expensive. I think it was less than £50.



My mum carries it around with her. She can always contact one of us at any given time. It goes intot he garden with her, into the bathroom, and even into the toilet.

charlotte1994

I'm not sure if this will do the job https://www.completecareshop.co.uk/household-aids/care-call-pager-and-alarms/care-call-fall-detector

|Maybe you can buy a pager for your mum and the alarm for your dad - like a carer would. It wouldn't go through to her phone but it would alert her straight away

unrecordings

kingfisherblue wrote: »

My mum has an 'old lady' mobile phone. It has an alarm button on it. When pressed, three people receive a text (me, my sister, and my daughter). Also, there are two buttons that you just need to hold down to ring pre-set numbers (my number and my daughter's - my sister lives much further away).


It's a Pay As You Go phone, so no monthly payment, and wasn't expensive. I think it was less than £50.



My mum carries it around with her. She can always contact one of us at any given time. It goes intot he garden with her, into the bathroom, and even into the toilet.

I like the sound of this for £50 ready for if/when things get worse - can you tell us the make/model you bought ?

kingfisherblue

unrecordings wrote: »

I like the sound of this for £50 ready for if/when things get worse - can you tell us the make/model you bought ?

I'll ask my mum later. I think it might be a Doro, and I know that we bought it from the EE store within Argos, St. Helens. I'll check for more informatiopn when I go to my mum's this evening.

unrecordings

kingfisherblue wrote: »

I'll ask my mum later. I think it might be a Doro, and I know that we bought it from the EE store within Argos, St. Helens. I'll check for more informatiopn when I go to my mum's this evening.

Doro - thanks - that gives me a good starting point

https://www.doro.co.uk/mobile-devices/easy-phones.html

unrecordings

and - via Tesco Mobile

https://www.tescomobile.com/shop/pay-as-you-go/doro/5516

kingfisherblue

Hi, my mum's is the 6520. She's said this evening (when I asked her about it) that the screen is big enough for her to see, and so are the numbers.

unrecordings

Brilliant - thanks for that