108559 Resource 95422 95276 95276 1132861900289 1132862451551 Controlled How does a medical alarm monitor movement in the house?

Can you give us any help about in-home monitoring systems...?

<p><br /><strong><em>Gordon and Helen asked:</em></strong></p><div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'd appreciate any help you can give us about in-home monitoring systems for my 85 year old mother-in-law.  She lives at home by herself and does okay despite the fact that she has macular degeneration and some mobility problems.  <br /><br /><br /></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">We are in contact with her daily at least but live over an hour and a half from her home.  When we met with her doctor and her yesterday, he said that some security companies have a service in which they monitor movement within the house while a person is home, compile a daily patterns history of this movement and if there is a significant change, notify the appropriate person. He thought it was offered by ADT but I found nothing on their website or any other security system companies website about such a service.<br /><br /><br /></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong><em>Can you point me in the right direction if there is such a product out there?<br /><br /><br /></em></strong></font></div><div><font size="2"></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for anything you can do!<br /><br /><br /></font></div><div><font size="2"></font></div><div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Hi Gordon and Helen,</font></span></div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">The only monitoring of movement medical alarms can do, that I'm aware of, is to see if the person has crossed and infrared beam. If that is crossed once daily they assume the person is okay.</font></span></div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Personally, I find this little more than a nuisance that causes false alarms.</font></span></div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff"><font size="2">I would recommend our seniorsafety.com medical alarm called </font><a title="How the Get Help Now medical alarm works." href="http://seniorsafety.com/medical_alert_work.html"><strong><em><font size="2"><font color="#ff0000">Get Help Now</font>.</font></em></strong></a><font size="2"> There is no infrared, and this is what we think is best.</font></font></span></div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">It's just wonderful that you keep touch daily with your mother in law, that is the best way to assess what is going on in her life, and to help keep her mentally alert.</font></span></div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Hope this helps,</font></span></div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div><div><span class="565583718-11112005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Jeff</font></span></div></div><div><font size="2"></font></div><p><strong><em></em></strong></p> 10 application/xml false ADT Get Help Now in-home monitoring medical alarm seniorsafety.com Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 66.251.33.19 66.251.33.19 jmiller false true false false true 205857 false false true false false false true 95422 blog blogsite/SeniorSafety/web