102020 Resource 95172 95276 95276 1126189307576 1169491535302 Controlled Hello Jeff, I've often thought of getting my wife a medical alarm system, but my wife has Aphasia.

Aphasia does not allow her to talk coherently.

<p>Hi Albert,</p><p>I understand from what you have asked, that your wife has Aphasia from a stroke, and that she cannot talk coherently. Her words come out all jumbled up. She even confuses yes and no questions. She is right side paralyzed and is confined to a wheelchair.</p><p>You want to know, &quot;Do any of the medical alert systems accommodate such a person?&quot;</p><p>My heart goes out to you Alfred, this is so difficult for you the caregiver, let alone, how tough this is for your dear wife. I hope the Aphasia your wife has is transitory. My uncle Herman had a difficult case of Aphasia.</p><p>I remember sitting in front of him with my laptop computer trying to get him to touch a yes or no large graphic image. Truly one of the most frustrating moments of my life.</p><p>The answer of whether a medical alert system can accomodate her is...yes and no.</p><p>If it is only that her words are jumbled...this presents no problem to a medical alarm monitoring center. We would just assume she is in trouble, since she can't coherently communicate, and we would send 911 to help her.</p><p>The important questions here are:</p><p>Do you believe she comprehends what you are saying?</p><p>Do you believe she will know to push the button if she needs help?</p><p>Will she push the button when she does not need help?</p><p>If she comprehends and knows when to push the button for help...yes a medical alarm system can give both of you great peace of mind.</p><p>If not she and you, will be even more frustrated when 911 arrives for no reason.</p><p>I feel for you and your wife. I hope this gives you some help in making a decision about medical alarms.</p><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-4619217328839728"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; google_ad_format = "468x60_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2007-01-22: Blog_ASSA google_ad_channel = "4300005539"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> 10 application/xml false Aphasia caregiver medical alarm monitoring center medical alarm system medical alarms medical alert systems paralyzed stroke wheelchair Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 jmiller false true false false true 205857 false false true false false false true 95172 blog blogsite/SeniorSafety/web