A personal emergency response system, PERS for short is known commonly as a Medical Alarm or Medical Alert. A Medical Alarm consist of a base unit and an activating device usually called a pendant or panic button. These panic buttons are wireless and most of them can be worn as a pendant , wrist band or a belt clip and have a range from 100 feet up to 400 feet. You can also add other triggering devices like stationary panic buttons, CO2 detectors and smoke detectors.
Most all PERS units work the same way. When the wireless panic button is pushed the main unit calls a central call center that answers the call and depending on what you have set up with your PERS dealer either calls local Emergency Medical Services EMS for short or calls a person you have instructed them to. If the medical alarm system supplied by your dealer is two-way voice capable when the unit is activated and the call center receives the call they will ask if you are ok and access the problem otherwise they will only be able to hear you. The base unit will have been pre-programed with your call center nuumber,aand a list of the activating devices. The call center will have received from the dealer information about health issues, spare key locations. There two components to a PERS system the equipment and the call center. Not all dealers and call centers are equal. Make sure when evaluating a medical alarm that ask question and get answers.
Medical alarms were developed in the 1970’s you may remember the comercial “help I’ve fallen and can’t get up. If you are elderly and find yourself unsteady on your feet, have incapacitating health issues , live alone and have no one that comes by to see you then you may want to consider a Medical Alarm