Peace Of Mind With Home Medical Monitoring

We’re all familiar with it. The commercial that everyone including some comedians have had a little fun with: “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” In a cynical world such as ours, it’s not hard to see how some folks have taken this situation and turned it into a humorous anecdote. But if it’s your elderly loved one that is laying alone on the floor in his or her home it’s really not so funny, is it?

Whether it’s a parent, a grandparent, a family friend, or simply an elderly person that we care about, we worry about them if they live alone. What will they do, what can they do, if they have an accident, a medical emergency or a fall, and they are immobilized without having some kind of communication device within reach?

Seniors are a growing demographic in our country as the “baby boomers” age. With the average lifespan increasing along with the number of elderly, there is an expanding need for senior medical alert systems in the home.

Most people desire to be independent and live in their own home for as long as they possibly can. It’s difficult for seniors to begin to think about some type of assisted living arrangement, thus admitting that they can no longer fully function on their own. Medical alert devices have offered these people—and their families and friends—reassurance, and have prolonged their ability to be autonomous.

Home medical monitoring has actually been in existence for more than 30 years, and has become a system that many seniors and elderly depend on. There are medical alert systems that will send an emergency transmission directly to 911, and there are also companies with their own monitoring centers which respond when an emergency transmission is received.

Most of these systems plug into a phone line and connect wirelessly to the alert button. Once a button is pressed on a alert necklace or alert bracelet, a signal is sent to a base unit which, in many cases, has a two-way speakerphone. A monitoring unit such as this will have the capability of being able to “hear” what is going on inside the residence (the microphones on these units are usually very sensitive), and a representative can also talk with the individual in need if at all possible.

If a medical alarm system representative does not hear dwelling response after an alert system has been activated, an emergency response team will be sent automatically. This is comforting to know for family members who are concerned with their aging loved one. Also offering comfort are other devices that can be added on to the basic alert systems such as smoke detectors, motion detectors, heat and cold sensors, and even fall sensors for when an elderly or disabled individual falls can’t reach his or her medical alert button.

There are also home medical monitoring systems set up to where the individual must “report in” to a monitoring station several times per day, and if they fail to do so they are checked on. If there is no response at that time, an emergency response is activated.

Overall, elderly home alarm systems have become a reliable way to monitor the health and safety of our seniors, thus offering peace of mind to friends and family members.

By: R.Clark

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Rhonda a team member at Alert1 and is the author of this article about elderly home medical monitoring in the form of medical alert devices . Life-Response offers protection during a personal emergency through 24-hour emergency medical help available at the press of a button.