Confused by alert service options. Any recommendations?

1. You have option to get Amazin Blink” cameras if he has valve wifi. The cameras for inside are about $30 each less when on sale. Then on your smart phone you get alerts or not and check periodically to w sure wellness and standing or sitting. Bli k has option of free recording if you buy $18 storage with a sync device or $3.99 a month storage which is easier. You sign into an Amazon account for your own or Uncle or Father to set it up and buy $3.99 a month subscription if your want that option.

A Fall defection system does NOT stop falls. A couple Blink cameras are less expensive and you can see if they are safe. If not, you call and if no answer you know there is a problem and go over or call local police for a welfare check.

We also got Mother the Amazon Echo shoe on sale for $65 and put font big. You can add upcoming appointments, positive affirmations. Photos, to do lists, birthdays and relaxation routines, Medici e reminders remote from your smart phone for free. These all are audible or read o ly on the Echo show. You can also “Drip in” to these devices if you don’t see your relative and talk to them via these Amazon Blink cameras or Amazon Echo Show.

It also has large font, local radio, music, books on tape and much more again all you can put on from your phone if you set it up in your Amazon account.

It is modern lined and less expensive monitoring for falls and overall being safe with a backup to phone.

Good luck to you and your family.

Apple watch will call 911 if you fall.

My dad lived alone. We had a Knoxbox installed on the outside of his home on the porch. And he wore a pendant from Great Call. When he pressed the button or it detected a fall, they called his children in an order we gave them and also asked him if he wanted 911 called. It worked well for us.

i have medical alert that i wear, a necklace. $500 for the year they also have a watch he can wear.

We had the necklace monitor with mom’s Humana insurance.

Eh, it was just okay. It did have fall detection on it. Honestly, for us, I found calling 911 faster and easier.

We installed a lock box so the firemen could easily enter. I ordered one from Amazon. All you do is set up a passcode. Easy enough.

SarahDell: Whatever service you do decide on, make sure that the pendant or bracelet is worn on the person all the time. Case in point: My mother did NOT wear her's in the shower ALTHOUGH she was told multiple times that she was supposed to do so.

Do not get life alert! I was on the phone with them moments away from sealing the deal and she quickly mentions that if I cancel before the term the contract is up, which I’m allowed to do it anytime, then I have to pay The contact in full. What the heck? No way I didn’t sign up.

we did get Bay alarm and they were great. We received a wristband for her, and a necklace for him. She wouldn’t wear hers after a while but he kept his necklace on, a push button, and it worked great.

quite often he was in the living room and the alarm system was two stairs downstairs then a couple of turns into the bedroom on the far wall. We ( the company & me) could hear each other just fine.

we use them in a couple of false alarms and two times in a real emergency no problems at all.

month-to-month contract no problems. Reasonably priced. Also a Write off as medical expense. And when they called emergency services they would make notifications out to other family members; whoever we chose on the set up.

Good luck!

Any Alert system must be worn 24 hours a day to be effective. I don't know of one that will contact you only but there may be one out there.

You could try a monitor ( like a baby monitor) your dad could hear if your uncle needed help. Good luck

On this site if u read further down it says get life alert. Info on this site for the elderly scroll at the bottom

check out Aarp they have something ppl over 50 it’s great a site. Life Alert, google sites ready make sure it’s a good brand and has been around for a long time.

For people with a computer. The Alexia app has a feature where you can designate a specific person’s phone # that will be call when you say “Alexia call help”. The Alexia “Show Me” device will allow “drop in” with audio and video.

Go To TMobile ask if they have a special where if you buy a phone $400 you get a free or reduced Apple 🍎 watch - this is what a dementia coach recommended

I am using 'Lively" for my Mom. It has GPS and fall detection, so she does not need to alert anyone , it automatically calls my sister or I. It can go a few days on one charge. It provides reassurance for us.

Use some type of life alert service with fall detection that is worn around the neck or on a wrist. The emergency service will contact or and anyone else on your uncle's contact list if you do not answer.

Your uncle is not safe living unsupervised any more and requires either 24-hour caregivers at home or be to placed into a facility where best communication can be decided.

I used a baby monitor. When Mom got up in the middle of the night I heard her. Alert buttons have to be worn 24/7. Thatsvthecwhole purpose of them. Moms had a motion sensor so if she hit the floor the operator would come on. If the person did not answer, 911 would be called or you could have that ur called first.

The best I’ve seen is the iPhone/iWatch set up, but very expensive.

It might appeal to him because so many people wear them and love them.

My LO had a very good set up with a necklace fob, but she refused to push the button so it NEVER helped her.

I purchased a button my mom would wear that, if she pushed it, it would call my phone. My work was 1 mile away from our house. It worked ok for awhile but as her diseased progressed, she could not remember how to use it.

I found when I moved her to the ALF that she did not understand their Buttons, their use and their function.

It did work great while she had the cognitive ability to understand the function. When she pushed the button, it would ring me and she could talk into the device, just like it was a phone on her end, to tell me what was wrong. It connected to my land line. I bought it on Amazon.

You could set the device to ring multiple people if the first person programmed does not pick up.

cwillie’s comments are very good. You do not explain the cognitive function of your dad and his ability to monitor your uncle.

Best of luck.

I gave up the alert service when I moved in with mom since there really was no longer any benefit. I'm not sure why your uncle doesn't trust the person he is living with to keep him safe - is your uncle in a separate apartment from your dad or is dad somewhat oblivious to what is going on around him? And you mention having the alerts come to you🤔. Is your father not capable of dealing with this, is this really a case of two people who need to be cared for living together?