Emergency telephone devices and operation

I’ve started this as I have just had my 2nd stroke and having a means of contacting people seems more important to me this time around. Probably because when it happened confusion and making the first phone call was the main feature.

I reproduce here details sent to me by harimanjaro about the sos feature on mobile phones. Why didn’t I think of this i don’t know, i feel such a wally! Anyway,you don’t have to now……https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-make-an-emergency-sos-call-from-your-mobile-phone-axuyN8J982Hx

I have a device from Amazon (arrived this morning) which is a button & hangs round yr neck. It’s cheap (comes from China🙄) £15ish and seems to work ok. Im still trying it out and will be downloading it to my nieces phone later. It seems to work ok - I’ll report back

There are more expensive options such as “yourstride” these all look very good but for me at the moment probably the additional expense &subscription is not justified. Definitely very useful for some people I’d be interested of any experiences with it or similar devices.

There’s also Apple Watch but again i haven’t investigated yet. Again any experiences would be appreciated.

Sorry it’s all a bit sketchy but it’s just a start. If the link doesn’t work please say I’ll try another way. Apologies to anyone who’s done this all already or it’s all in another section I haven’t found yet. Hopefully this will all be of some help though.

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Thanks for sharing this. If it gives peace of mind then it is definitely worth doing and investing a small amount to give that peace of mind is a small price to pay.

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Thank for sharing this. I’m sure it will be very interesting to the contributors on here. It’s what makes this community such a useful place to be.

Regards Sue

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Further to my last - my local stroke association support coordinator sent me this link…..

https://www.stroke.org.uk/partnerships/help-from-our-partners

It looks lIke another good piece of equipment and a few more options available with it. Hope everyone is doing well……

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