How to Improve Emergency Situations With Affordable Emergency Monitoring Systems
Elderly Healthcare Alert Report – It’s no secret that the aging population is on an increase. And it’s no secret that more adult children will be facing the challenges of caring for their elderly relatives, many of whom live in fear of living alone safely. What is a mystery to some, though, is that as aging issues become more a part of everyday life, what is being done to help? And what can be done?
So far, many leave safety up to the elderly themselves. However, this posses many challenges. For example, take into account three recent news cases.
FALLS – The first involved a 90-year-old woman found dead outside her home, at the bottom of a rock wall. Her nephew found her, and surmised that she had probably gone out looking for her cat in the evening and fallen, as her glasses were lying atop the wall. And unfortunately temperatures had dropped into single digits that night.
CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING – In the second case, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic found his parents dead in their California home due to carbon monoxide poisoning. His dad...