Close call!

[Randall]

My mother of 89 has at least 3 pay as you go cell phones. She fell last summer and broke her leg. Where were the phones? Still in their original packaging. She does carry a medic-alert device with her. She said it took her two hours to crawl less than 50 feet to the door to unlock it before she used the device to call for help. She has since recovered and is back home. The phones are still unopened.

[Qweek]

At this age, older people should not be left unattended.

[Pottapaug1938]

My mother passed away in 2007, at age 79. Two years previously, she fell and broke some bones; but Mom (typically stubborn) decided that she shouldn't use her Medic-Alert button "because the door is locked, and the firemen won't be able to get in."

My late father would have been a firefighter, had he not had a secure job with the VA; and when I was a teenager, he told me that most firefighters know how to pick locks, precisely for situations like these.

[Burnaby49]

My mother passed away in 2007, at age 79. Two years previously, she fell and broke some bones; but Mom (typically stubborn) decided that she shouldn't use her Medic-Alert button "because the door is locked, and the firemen won't be able to get in."

My late father would have been a firefighter, had he not had a secure job with the VA; and when I was a teenager, he told me that most firefighters know how to pick locks, precisely for situations like these.

Just a few weeks ago I watched a fire crew force open a window so that one could get the door.

[bmxninja357]

funny thing about being to far to call for help. sometimes it just dosen't matter your age. im 27 with 18 years experience and i have been to far from my phone. i live in a motorhome and sleep on the upper bed over the cab. i have a memory foam mattress and before i made some modifications if it got very cold the mattress gets hard as plywood. you kind of melt into a nice warm hole and i often reach over and turn the furnace off while im sleeping. one morning i went to get up and my back gave up and went into spasms. now i was parked at my sisters and she was in the house. i left my phone on the table. couldnt call for help off my bed. couldnt reach phone. took around an hour for me to get off my bed.

point is keep your lifeline charged and handy. your life or the life of another may depend on it.

peace,
ninj

[Judge Roy Bean]

A close friend of mine learned the value of keeping his phone with him. An improperly-braced staircase being installed in his home shifted when he stepped onto the top step. As it slid forward, he fell from fourteen feet onto the top step of the lower stairway below it leading down to the basement. He awoke a few hours later, immobilized from injuries but was able to get his phone out of his pocket and call a neighbor. He was within just a few more hours of dying right there in his own home.

[Arthur Rubin]

A close friend of mine learned the value of keeping his phone with him. An improperly-braced staircase being installed in his home shifted when he stepped onto the top step. As it slid forward, he fell from fourteen feet onto the top step of the lower stairway below it leading down to the basement.

Could have used "fall detection"....

(No offense intended.)

[Judge Roy Bean]

A close friend of mine learned the value of keeping his phone with him. An improperly-braced staircase being installed in his home shifted when he stepped onto the top step. As it slid forward, he fell from fourteen feet onto the top step of the lower stairway below it leading down to the basement.

Could have used "fall detection"....

(No offense intended.)

This was far back enough that it was one of the old "pull up the antenna" handsets. No inertia detectors back then!

[Qweek]

I had not even heard of such detectors.

[Judge Roy Bean]

I had not even heard of such detectors.

If you have a newer phone that will rotate the image on the screen depending on how you hold it, you have them in it. Among other things they detect movement and control the display based on it. They are also used in those emergency notification devices to determine if someone has fallen.

Technically, they're often referred to as "accelerometers."

[webhick]

I had not even heard of such detectors.

If you have a newer phone that will rotate the image on the screen depending on how you hold it, you have them in it. Among other things they detect movement and control the display based on it. They are also used in those emergency notification devices to determine if someone has fallen.

Technically, they're often referred to as "accelerometers."

If you tend to keep your phone in your pocket, it can also tell you how many steps you've taken.

[Judge Roy Bean]

I had not even heard of such detectors.

If you have a newer phone that will rotate the image on the screen depending on how you hold it, you have them in it. Among other things they detect movement and control the display based on it. They are also used in those emergency notification devices to determine if someone has fallen.

Technically, they're often referred to as "accelerometers."

If you tend to keep your phone in your pocket, it can also tell you how many steps you've taken.

Don't tell Mrs. Bean; she'd start keeping track of my lack of exercise!!!