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Mother has an alert necklace. It works...when she wears it. She also states she ALWAYS has her cell phone on her..which she doesn't. You call her and then she will eventually realize she's missed a call and try to figure out who called her.
The alert pendant has worked best for actual falls---but she has had plenty 'alerts' where she was not wearing it, or sent it through the wash.
The Applewatch my daughter wears (and has her kids wearing them too!) is a spot on safety net. I think I might suggest one for my mom. The pendant hangs down so low it whacks the bars of her walker and that will also set it off.
I do not think she could take the Applewatch off by herself. I didn't know it could be programmed to catch 'falls' but I wouldn't be surprised. My daughter never takes hers off as it's her lifeline to her kiddoes. She can track them wherever they go.
The fall pendants, while a great 'idea' in itself have proven, to me, to be much less than great for the elders in my life.
Second, you have to decide whether you want to get her an in-home only system or a mobile system that she can bring with her anywhere. If it's a mobile system, some of the jewelry can be pretty bulky. The nicest one I saw was from Philips Lifeline. My mother used it and it was an all-in one system that hung as a pendent, but it had a fall detection, GPS, help button and and speaker.
There are also new fall detectors like the applewatch, those embedded in hearing aids and even some that you can put on a wall I read about on seniorsafetyreviews.com here: https://www.seniorsafetyreviews.com/the-best-fall-detection-systems-for-older-adults/.
Whatever it is, just make sure you can return it, so you can test it and see if it works well and your mother will use it.
To avoid stating specific names of companies, I'm p'm ing you with the name of the company I used. I chose it after calling several, including those that advertise regularly in some elder media.
My checklist included not only basics such as cost, but (a) whether or not 24/7 staffing was provided, with live people as opposed to any kind of messaging (b) how quickly they returned my phone request to speak with someone (c) what kind of motion detectors were available with the device.
The service I chose had live staffing 24/7, and I certainly verified that when they repeatedly called me after we had spent several hours in the ER. When I returned home, I saw they had called several times.
One of the services I called took a few days just to return my phone call. They were out immediately.
The device I chose was sensitive enough that it activated and produced a call from the monitoring center if my father merely leaned over.
In addition, when we had a problem with the device, someone was sent out the same day to replace it.
When I decide to get a monitoring device for myself, it will be with this company.
(Check your messages, please.)
There's no excuse for such low class, vulgar and offensive language, and has absolutely nothing to do with the OP's question. If I posted on a forum and saw this vulgar behavior, I wouldn't even come back.
Good luck to you and your mom.