Elderly medical alarms

A big group of people using wheelchairs are the elderly folks. Age has not been kind to their legs and as a result, they have to depend on the wheelchair for their movement. However, beside being unable to move, elderly might also get involved with other home emergencies that we are not prepared for. Nowadays, it is common to see a couple both working which leaves nobody at home to monitor and take care of the old folks. What happens when there is accident or unexpected incidents? This is where home medical devices for the elderly comes in handy.

There are quite a number of different models of elderly medical alarms. Most of them work in the the same way. Usually, there is a central receiver of transmissions in the home. This acts like a central broadcaster where it will look out for signals sent by the elderly folks and broadcast that signal to the family members. Elders themselves will carry a mobile device. These devices can be in the form of elderly pendant alarms. These devices are worn like a necklace around their necks. This position make it easy for the elderly to reach out and use the device. When there are any emergencies, all they need to do is to grab the device and push a single button. This will trigger a signal to the receiving device that was mentioned earlier. That device in turn will then alert the family members as well as any hospital or police numbers that had already been preassigned to the broadcasting device.

Very often, timing is all the difference between life and death. When any emergencies happen, the failure to act in time often is a cause of deaths and consequential the sadness in the family for the death. Using such a alert system will minimize the time needing to act and hopefully this will help to save more lives and prevent any tragic from happening.