Years ago I visited senior citizens for New York City getting home care under Medicaid. When they start to slip one of the first skills to go is to think to call someone on the phone and the ability to dial a telephone. We used boxes like the ones that are on TV (I've fallen and I can't get up!!)
They are appropriate for a few people but when they get to that point they shouldn't be living alone. Either a home care attendant or a nursing home. Even having a cell phone strapped to their waist won't help if they don't think to use it, or can't dial it. Please note this is my new email address. Any mail that you get from previous addresses may not be sent by me. Mark Robert Mark Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Tel: (845) 566-0586 USA Cell (845) 541-7396 Can Cell (902) 314-4521 -----Original Message----- From: Eric Myers <[email protected]> To: mhvlug <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 11:23 am Subject: Re: [mhvlug] Senior Citizen Emergency Cell Phones? On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, WestHurley ComputerReCycling wrote: > > Recently with the heavy snow and scattered power outages became aware > that in some local areas there is an unmet need concerning Senior > Citizen Emergency Cell Phones. We got my wife's grandmother a T-moble pay as you go phone for about $30 at Target. I can put $10 on it to give her 30 min of call time, either via credit card over her phone (she brings it to family gatherings when it runs out) or via the web on my own. She carries it everywhere but never uses it unless the minutes are about to expire. At first the minutes ran out after 90 days, but now that she's been using it for so long they make it 1 year from last purchase. So as insurance goes this is pretty cheap. My biggest concern is whether she'll remember how to use it if it's really needed, but I think we are okay there. Having her use up the minutes every 90 days was not bad practice. -Eric _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 May 4 - Inkscape
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