ElderAlert
Falls are the greatest threats to independent living. In fact, several studies indicate that one in three people aged 65 or older living in the community fall at least once a year, causing moderate to severe injuries such as bruises, hip fractures or head traumas. The proportion of individuals falling increases to one in two for those over 80 years of age. Among older adults, falls are the leading cause of injury-related deaths.
That’s why JF&CS offers the ElderAlert emergency response system: so you can feel secure in your own home knowing that if you ever need emergency assistance, help is available at the press of a button.
ElderAlert Features:
- Button-activated base unit that connects to your telephone with a built-in battery backup
- Alarm that alerts you when the system is activated
- Button-activated waterproof, miniature emergency alert pendant or wristband reaches ranges up to 600 feet from base unit
- ElderAlert equipment is ETL Listed* to UL 1637/1635 safety standards for home healthcare devices
- Monitoring/response center is UL-certified
- Monthly testing ensures that everything is working properly
- If the battery in your pendant or wristband or the back-up battery in the console gets low, a signal will be sent to the response center notifying them, and a technician will be dispatched to replace it
How We Help
- Trained technicians install the ElderAlert sytem and instruct you on how to use it.
- Our local response center, Automated Security Alert, provides monitoring 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- If you ever need emergency assistance, from anywhere in your home, simply press the medical alert button. A signal is sent immediately to the response center and, within moments, a response center operator will contact you through the system to ensure everything is okay. If you tell them that you need help..or if no contact is made...the operator will access your emergency contact information and notify local emergency personnel and family or friends whom you have requested be contacted in case of emergency. The line will then be kept open until help has arrived.
*The ETL Listed Mark is a product’s mark of compliance to widely accepted product safety standards as determined through the independent testing of a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL). UL (Underwriters Laboratories®) is an independent product safety certification organization that has been testing products and writing standards for safety for more than a century.
Meet the People We Help
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Jolene receives care coordination services. Her initial assessment outlined several changes be made if Jolene was to remain safely in her home as she desired. One very important one was to install the ElderAlert personal emergency response system. It very well may have saved her life.
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*Name changed to protect client confidentiality.
