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A senior medical alarm allows the senior citizens or the elderly to live independently by offering them a quick emergency response and a personal emergency response system at their fingertips. Also known as medical alert devices, these are equipped to monitor 24 hours a day and seven days a week. What they need is just a phone connection.
The main essence of the senior medical alarm is that it is wireless and are available in various forms such as bracelets, watches, key chains, and pendants. The senior citizens just need to wear these in their wrist or neck. During a personal emergency, the users just need to press the button to activate the medical alarm. The alarm when activated provides signals either to your medical alarm company's personal emergency service or to start calling the contacts you have stored in the system. If there is no response from any of the numbers, the personal emergency response system still keeps dialing and if needed it also calls 911 ( emergency telephone number for North American Numbering Plan (NANP).
The senior medical alarm also comes with various other useful features, which can benefit the elderly in some manner or the other.
1. It includes medical pagers, which alert medication users the time of taking the medicine
2. Bio-monitoring machines, which keep a track of the blood pressure, monitor heart rate, breathing and so on.
3. Two-way personal emergency response systems, which promote quick personal emergency communication
4. Various useful programs and auto dialers that expedite calls to family, doctors and all the other emergency numbers users provide
Senior medical alarms are mostly beneficial to alert or notify family members, personal doctors, and neighbors whenever there is a personal emergency. It is also beneficial for elderly people who need medical attention.
