For in the home and shower. Mom is alone, but has lost a lot of mobility and strength being locked in during the pandemic. She has a cell phone and a landline, although sometimes forgets to hang them up. She is visiting me and I see her decline. She is stubborn and won’t admit she needs help. She fell last nite off a chair while getting undressed for bed.
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You say that she forgets to hang the phone up a lot. It's common for people who have dementia to fall and even if the alert button is on their body, they forget to press it. Or if the phone is by their side, they lay there for hours, because, they don't have the initiative to call for help. I've seem it him happen with more than a handful of seniors that I know personally. One lady that we know fell last week and laid they until the next day when someone just dropped by and found her. She didn't make it. This is why I am so concerned when a senior who has dementia relies on these devices. They just aren't able to use them well and they don't really protect the senior from many other types of risks, life fire, letting strangers in, etc.