{"id":6,"date":"2009-09-08T18:31:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T22:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com.previewdns.com\/articles\/?p=6"},"modified":"2022-12-24T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T17:40:18","slug":"how-to-warm-up-your-loved-one-to-the-idea-of-a-medical-alert-monitoring-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/articles\/how-to-warm-up-your-loved-one-to-the-idea-of-a-medical-alert-monitoring-system\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Warm-Up Your Loved One To The Idea of a Medical Alert Monitoring System"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Did you know (according to one major service provider) that approximately 75% of all <\/strong>medical alert monitoring systems are purchased by adult children for their aging parents?\u00a0 Did you also know that you are probably going to get some resistance from your parents when you approach them with the idea of a medical alert system?<\/p>\n

Well, you may not have known the answer to the first question, but<\/strong> I bet you knew the answer to the second one!\u00a0 Medical alert monitoring systems save lives everyday.\u00a0 They are the best \u201cbang-for-the-buck\u201d in anything related to health care, you can check out Life Alert costs<\/a> on our site.\u00a0 So if they are so great and not too expensive, then why the resistance from users of these systems?\u00a0 Good question.\u00a0 We believe the answer is simple: elderly people don\u2019t want to admit that they are getting old, seniors are stubborn, and they just don\u2019t want their kids telling them what to do!<\/p>\n

Consider this, more seniors aged 65 and older die<\/strong> from injuries related to falls.\u00a0 That\u2019s more people than heart attack and stroke victims combined.\u00a0 Also, seniors who have fallen once are more likely to fall again.\u00a0\u00a0 Getting immediate help after a fall greatly reduces the risk of death and hospitalization.\u00a0 Has your loved one ever fallen?\u00a0 Have you seen them stumble more often as they\u2019ve become older?\u00a0 If so, share some of this information with them.<\/p>\n

Do your loved ones know how much you worry<\/strong> about them?\u00a0 Have you tried to talk to them and explain your concerns to them?\u00a0 Let them know that a medical alert system may give you more peace of mind than maybe they\u2019ll get, but that added peace of mind benefits everyone.<\/p>\n

If your parents are like many,<\/strong> they don\u2019t want to spend more money than they have to on anything.\u00a0 In fact, even if they remotely think that a system like this would be beneficial, they may not admit it do to the thought of a high cost of such a service.\u00a0 Let them know that there are many companies that provide these services and that has driven the costs down to about one dollar a day, in most cases.<\/p>\n

Let your loved ones know that medical alert systems<\/strong> are doctor recommended and that they will allow them to live independently longer, in their own surroundings.\u00a0 Nothing has to change for them.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have to learn a new routine, or stop doing what they love most in life.\u00a0 They can do more of what they want knowing that help is literally just a push of a button away.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is that you really need to<\/strong> get around the stubbornness that many of the elderly have.\u00a0 They don\u2019t like change and they want to feel in control.\u00a0 That\u2019s really not an unreasonable request.\u00a0 You know your loved one better than anyone.\u00a0 Your goal is to get them to see things in a clear and rational way.\u00a0 Once they do, they\u2019ll realize that life is just too precious to leave to chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know (according to one major service provider) that approximately 75% of all medical alert monitoring systems are purchased by adult children for their aging parents?\u00a0 Did you also know that you are probably going to get some resistance from your parents when you approach them with the idea of a medical alert system?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,25,63,76,22],"acf":[],"modified_by":"ArticlesTips","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7600,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/7600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}