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A visitor writes: “Joe, Thanks for this website. Your help is so valuable. My siblings nominated me to research a monitoring system for our parents.. I had no idea it was so overwhelming to sort out. You have made good suggestions and pointed out things I didn’t even know about. Thanks again, Susan.” See more testimonials.

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Why I built this site

One night when my grandmother was 96 years old, she tripped on the stairs inside her house. She fell to the landing and broke her hip. She couldn’t crawl to a telephone.

For 13 hours, all through the night and past lunch time the next day, she lay on the landing alone.

If she had been wearing a medical alert she could have pushed a button and summoned help. An ambulance could have been at her door ten minutes later. She would have been spared those long hours of suffering, and maybe she would have had a better outcome and not spent the remaining 5 years of her life in assisted living.

I built this site because I don’t want you, or someone you love, to have to go through the same situation. I want to help cut through the confusion so you can make a good decision and buy the right system to protect yourself or your loved one. See more on the “about” page.