{"id":967,"date":"2014-05-27T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2022-06-13T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:28:00","slug":"who-would-benefit-the-most-from-a-medical-alert-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/articles\/who-would-benefit-the-most-from-a-medical-alert-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Would Benefit the Most from a Medical Alert System?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_958\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-958\" class=\"wp-image-958 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/senior-male-in-wheel-chair-with-nurse-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"medical alert systems for elderly\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/senior-male-in-wheel-chair-with-nurse-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/senior-male-in-wheel-chair-with-nurse.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medical Alert Systems are for those who are elderly, disabled, caring for small children, or recovering from a surgery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While we often think of medical alert systems as items for the elderly, this is not necessarily the case.\u00a0 There are actually individuals of all ages who could greatly benefit from having a medical alert system.\u00a0 Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/reviews\/medical-guardian-review\/\">Medical Guardian reviews<\/a> for a full product list. <!--more-->These systems can be extremely useful to anyone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who lives alone or spends many hours of the day alone at home<\/li>\n<li>With a serious medical condition such as chronic heart failure or diabetes<\/li>\n<li>With physical difficulties requiring the use of a cane, walker, or wheelchair<\/li>\n<li>Who is recovering from a recent surgery<\/li>\n<li>Who is taking a medication that has dizziness as a side effect<\/li>\n<li>Who is bedridden due to a difficult pregnancy<\/li>\n<li>Who works in a solitary work environment<\/li>\n<li>With young children who are watched by babysitters in the home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In all of these cases and more, having a medical alert system will afford you the peace of mind that medical assistance can be easily obtained 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in the event of an emergency.\u00a0 By simply pressing a button worn around the neck or wrist, you will instantly reach a call center who will contact your family and first responders, as needed, to get you the help you need.<\/p>\n<p>Another feature of medical alert systems that caregivers for seniors in particular may find useful, is called <em>activity monitoring<\/em>.\u00a0 There are two different ways this can be approached.\u00a0 With the first method, the base unit of your medical alert system will make a beeping noise, and cause the unit&#8217;s light flash.\u00a0 These serve as reminders for you to press the button on your base unit.\u00a0 If you do not press the button, the system will alert you with more beeping. After a specified amount of time has passed, if you continue to not press the button, personnel at the monitoring center will be alerted that something may be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The second method requires that motion detectors and contacts be placed around your home on doors and in hallways to readily travel.\u00a0 As you go about your daily activities, these detectors will note your presence in different rooms in your home.\u00a0 If the detectors do not sense motion within a certain time frame, your base unit will make a beeping sound, alerting you to move about or press the button on the unit.\u00a0 If there is no action within a specified period, the monitoring center will be alerted.\u00a0 Regardless of the method you choose, activity monitoring can provide extra reassurance that someone is always looking out for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we often think of medical alert systems as items for the elderly, this is not necessarily the case.\u00a0 There are actually individuals of all ages who could greatly benefit from having a medical alert system.\u00a0 Read our Medical Guardian reviews for a full product list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[61,15,136,16,9,76,13,10,26],"acf":[],"modified_by":"ArticlesTips","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967"}],"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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6627,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/6627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}