Increasingly we see the two categories of Medical Alert Systems and Home Sensor Systems merging in the future. Our analyst team has done a lot of research on both of these categories.
In this series of discussions with older adults you can hear for yourself what they like and dislike about current products, and what their ideas about the ideal products are.
This is an interestingly different approach to a medical alert. This product is a “senior friendly” cell phone, but it has a button which lets you call the medical alert monitoring service (called 5 star) which is provided by the manufacturer (Lively — previously called GreatCall).
The “MobileHelp Duo” allows for out and about operation using a second mobile base station, but still has small, light pendants with long battery life. This product was part of our testing of the best “go anywhere” class of emergency response systems, and is one of our recommended products. See our analysis of go anywhere … Read more