My 89 year old grandma actually fell last week and broke her leg. It happened around 7pm and she wasn’t found until my uncle came in the morning for work (his business is run from her house). She was unable to reach the cordless phone on the coffee table. She has been too stubborn to learn how to use the iPad docked for her next to the couch so she can FaceTime myself and my dad for free (we live overseas from her). I would highly recommend a smart assistant device like Alexa so your grandparent can very simply call out for help. I think all of the smart speakers on the market can have emergency contacts and I think Echo has subscription for emergency calling 911 in the US. My dad is heading over to see Grandma next week and I told him we need to make sure she has a way to call out for help with the least resistance.
Trickycoolj
joined 10 months ago
Well I like that it’s a watch and not a pocket clip that will go through the washing machine every time I forget to take it off my jeans or die when I sweat too much with it clipped on my sports bra. Oh and I don’t miss having to use MFP to bridge the data over to Apple health.
I was juggling everything trying to get out of a conference room. My phone started the whoop whoop thing and I managed to get it to stop but not before I got a call back from Seattle Police. The worst part is that I worked for a major corporation with in-house security and fire department so you weren’t supposed to call 911 on site since we had an internal emergency number. Whoopsie daisy.
My 89 year old grandma actually fell last week and broke her leg. It happened around 7pm and she wasn’t found until my uncle came in the morning for work (his business is run from her house). She was unable to reach the cordless phone on the coffee table. She has been too stubborn to learn how to use the iPad docked for her next to the couch so she can FaceTime myself and my dad for free (we live overseas from her). I would highly recommend a smart assistant device like Alexa so your grandparent can very simply call out for help. I think all of the smart speakers on the market can have emergency contacts and I think Echo has subscription for emergency calling 911 in the US. My dad is heading over to see Grandma next week and I told him we need to make sure she has a way to call out for help with the least resistance.