A friend just bought a particular medical alert system for her mother. If you’re not familiar with this system, it’s the classic “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” setup. You wear a pendant or piece of jewelry with a button on it. If you have an emergency you press the button and a plug-in [...]

What is the best medical alert system to install in your home? The one that’s going to work when you need it. Okay, so that’s not a super-helpful answer. But the fact is, there are a lot of good medical alert systems on the market, and the one that’s right for you might not be [...]

If you’re shopping for a medical alert system or comparing different systems, you’ve probably wondered why a life alert system would be better than just carrying a cell phone. It’s a really natural question. After all, cell phones are great for calling for help in all kinds of situations, whether we need a neighbor to [...]

If you’re too far from the medical alert base station when you need help, the system might not work for you. Here’s what happens. When you need to use the medical alert system in your house, you press the button that you carry with you. This activates the base station. The base unit then takes [...]

Life alert systems are easy to set up in your home. And just to clarify, life alert and medical alert are both terms that are used to describe devices that can call for help if you can’t reach the phone. Do you remember the TV ads? “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” Young [...]

The cost of a medical alert system varies a lot. The first thing you want to understand is that you’re actually paying for two separate things: Equipment Ongoing monitoring Medical alert equipment The equipment you need for medic alert monitoring consists of a base station and a transmitter that is worn on the body of [...]