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Medical alarm service, seeking advice and recommendations
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Medical alarm service, seeking advice and recommendations
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My mother has midstage Alzheimer's and she was a technophobe way before that. She was receiving a subsidy, which dropped her subscriber rate to $5.33 a month. But this is ending soon due to
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Medical alarm service, seeking advice and recommendations
posted at March 3, 2012 2:28 PM EST
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First: August 30, 2010 Last: March 3, 2012 |
My mother has midstage Alzheimer's and she was a technophobe way before that. She was receiving a subsidy, which dropped her subscriber rate to $5.33 a month. But this is ending soon due to lack of funds like so much these days as the Great Recession marches on. CST your Link to Life has been a pain in my backside over billing, so they are fired as soon as her subsidy ends, possibly sooner. I absolutely refuse to send them $35 a month for more billiing sqabbles. I saw an ad for 5Star Emergency Response. Has anyone used that for summoning an ambulance for a medical emergency, like for a stroke? The ad definitely seems geared to younger families and I am not sure how their agents would respond to an elder who had a stroke, for instance. We don't have to go with 5Star. I want a company who could recognize someone struggling to communicate, whether due to a stroke or a head injury due to a fall, and be able to figure out how to summon the local ambulance. We live in Vermont if that makes a differnce as far a coverage/service area..Thanks. |
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Re: Medical alarm service, seeking advice and recommendations
posted at April 12, 2012 10:15 AM EDT
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First: April 12, 2012 Last: April 13, 2012 |
If you have not purchased your PERS system yet - I would be happy to help. I work for ADT in the Home Health department. I had a friend yesterday talking about the 5Star Product at our Round Rock TX chapter .. Had a luke warm response to 5 Star. Not thrilled with all the "disclosures" in the owners manual... Felt like she was paying 100% of her money for 50% of what she expected... Please send me a private post if I can help or use this coupon to save on ADT http://www.everafterimages.com/adt/HHSDebra.pdf |
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