Thank you Ryan, this is very helpful, well presented information. We're looking for monitored panic button and fall detection, and are focusing on a base-station system like Bay Alarm Home with fall detection pendent and some help buttons, because of multi year battery life and 1000' range. Did you happen to get a look at the fall detection device tied to the Home System? Do you feel it's as capable at fall detection as the GPS unit? You addressed the app and push notification capability of the Mobile System, is there a similar feature of for the Home system? Is there a way caregivers can to determine if the remote units are requiring battery replacement? Dad, 88, living alone, is really technology negative, we can't even get him to keep his phone charged and near him. We think battery life of the devices is the key, a stand alone systems that required him charging, like a watch or GPS device just won't be maintained. I figure we're going to be lucky if he'll wear any device. I'm coming to understand that a system with a base unit, like the Bay Alarm Home with a plugged in base station are energy efficient for devices because they don't need to have GPS/LTE radios, and you get the advantage of multiple paired help buttons. The range of the base station, is the circle he spends 99% of his time, home, mowing his grass, at the neighbors, and when he's out he's generally with someone and or in a public place. I guess if your elder is ok with keeping the device charged and with them, the gps or a watch is an option, but you lose the additional help buttons, so maybe having both systems would be helpful in some cases. Thanks again for this excellent content.
Potential users should be aware of their return policy. When the policy is canceled you have 21 days to return everything. If any of the four devices are missing they charge $299 per device. So if you don't get everything returned promptly you are out over $1000. Oh ... and when you cancel they don't bother to tell you what address is to send it to, although you can find it in the manual (if you know where that is). (Ours is getting returned promptly.) Those devices can't cost more than twenty or thirty dollars total to make in China. The return policy seems to be designed to take advantage of grieving families who can't find all the devices.
While the equipment charge ($299 per device) might seem overly high, it's pretty standard for leased medical alert equipment. (Also, the $299 refers to the system as a whole. They won't charge you $1000 for not returning a help button and wrist attachment.) I just returned my system with no issues and received a pro-rated refund for the month.
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Thank you Ryan, this is very helpful, well presented information. We're looking for monitored panic button and fall detection, and are focusing on a base-station system like Bay Alarm Home with fall detection pendent and some help buttons, because of multi year battery life and 1000' range.
Did you happen to get a look at the fall detection device tied to the Home System? Do you feel it's as capable at fall detection as the GPS unit? You addressed the app and push notification capability of the Mobile System, is there a similar feature of for the Home system? Is there a way caregivers can to determine if the remote units are requiring battery replacement?
Dad, 88, living alone, is really technology negative, we can't even get him to keep his phone charged and near him. We think battery life of the devices is the key, a stand alone systems that required him charging, like a watch or GPS device just won't be maintained. I figure we're going to be lucky if he'll wear any device.
I'm coming to understand that a system with a base unit, like the Bay Alarm Home with a plugged in base station are energy efficient for devices because they don't need to have GPS/LTE radios, and you get the advantage of multiple paired help buttons. The range of the base station, is the circle he spends 99% of his time, home, mowing his grass, at the neighbors, and when he's out he's generally with someone and or in a public place.
I guess if your elder is ok with keeping the device charged and with them, the gps or a watch is an option, but you lose the additional help buttons, so maybe having both systems would be helpful in some cases.
Thanks again for this excellent content.
Can those two medical alerts detect seizures ?
Potential users should be aware of their return policy. When the policy is canceled you have 21 days to return everything. If any of the four devices are missing they charge $299 per device. So if you don't get everything returned promptly you are out over $1000. Oh ... and when you cancel they don't bother to tell you what address is to send it to, although you can find it in the manual (if you know where that is). (Ours is getting returned promptly.) Those devices can't cost more than twenty or thirty dollars total to make in China. The return policy seems to be designed to take advantage of grieving families who can't find all the devices.
While the equipment charge ($299 per device) might seem overly high, it's pretty standard for leased medical alert equipment. (Also, the $299 refers to the system as a whole. They won't charge you $1000 for not returning a help button and wrist attachment.)
I just returned my system with no issues and received a pro-rated refund for the month.