wearing a help i have fallen pendant

"Help, I've fallen and can't get up!"

by AgentX86 - 2024-04-26 00:43:30

Sure, it'll be fine.  The pendant will only transmit when the button is pushed.  It's unlikely to be right on top of your pacemker when you push it.  Even if it is, the chances of something bad happening are very close to zero.

Personal alarms

by Gemita - 2024-04-26 02:08:38

Hello New to Pace, the question that perhaps would concern me more than the question you have asked is why do you feel you need to move into assisted living?  Have you had another fall or has something happened/changed?   

Whatever the reason for this question, I hope you are getting help for this? I cannot imagine you needing immediate care since you appear so independent, always active and helping others.

My neighbour has a pacemaker and wears a pendant without to my knowledge any noticeable interference with her pacemaker, although she is over 90 now and clearly has some difficult symptoms (balance and dizziness).  She falls quite a lot now and is afraid to go out on her own, bless her, but her monitoring company will automatically know when she falls, even if she doesn’t press her pendant alarm, and phone the first key holder (her son) who lives a short distance away.   She has both a neck pendant and a wrist one.  Perhaps the wrist pendant might be better for you.

Anyway big decisions ahead New to Pace.  Please take care and I hope you come to the best decision about your future care.

independent living

by new to pace.... - 2024-04-26 08:05:08

this is not an assisted living , but someplace as if was living at home.  One of the reasons is i am becoming isolated.  Thought being able to be around others without having to get in my van and go someplace would be good. Then coming home to an empty house.  Since this past winter when i had to hire someone to remove the leaves.  Have been careful not to bend to much in the yard.  

Not any problems am helathy. 

The other reason is my sisters are not healthy, an not sure i want them to have the stress of trying to sell my home.

Also thought i should take the money from the sale of my home an enjoy myself..  What really made me think this place would be good for me as they have podiatry severices as I  have been unable to trim my toenails. think claws.!

This place is a rental and has all the assisted living, memory care, nursing, and rehab buildings on the same campus.  Next door to a golf course and  I can enjoy what they offer.

Am going to see this with a friend on Monday.  All apartments  look over the woods.  I want a  2 bedroom 2 bath.  so i can have friends stay over.  Plus have a room for my desktop computer.   My friend looked over the schedule of activities and said i would never get bored.

First i have to sell, and second need a unit to become available.  It is in my town so would not need to get new doctors and 7 miles from i live now.

new to pace

Personal alarms

by Lurker (Doc DX) - 2024-04-26 08:34:27

My sister In Fredericton NB wears one since she had a stroke several years ago. It goes off automatically when she falls. Her son is a fire fighter there and he is one of the people that gets the call. Happened once which really shocked her when he showed up. 
 

Doc DX

Independent living

by Gemita - 2024-04-26 09:05:24

Sounds lovely New to Pace.  All the time we are in our own home it is all too easy to start jobs that we really shouldn’t be doing any more and then finding ourselves in trouble, isn’t it.  Having said that, I would find it difficult to move since we have been living here since 1980.

Please let us know how you find the apartments.  What a lovely position and so much going on.  You will quickly make new friends.  Are properties selling quickly where you currently live?  We live close to London, so properties are snapped up quickly, especially bungalows.

thanks for you answers

by new to pace.... - 2024-04-26 11:45:35

AgentX86, Lurker, and Gemita.

Have been in my home nearly 24 years it was new then,  Now like everything it is starting to show its age.  There are things i know i should not be doing.

If the price is right will sell quickly.

new to pace

Life alerts

by Lavender - 2024-04-26 14:51:26

I know two people who wear life alert type products. One only works if the wearer pushes a button. One works if the wearer if unconscious. I prefer the one where you don't have to push a button if you're going to get this device. After all, if you're unconscious, you can't push the button. 🫤

Your new home idea sounds great! Enjoy life and leave the outdoor work to others!  

Pendant alarms

by Gotrhythm - 2024-04-26 16:03:59

No problem.

I wore one for a couple of years until I decided I could live without it--well, really because we finallly got my PMT problem straightened out and I was no longer in danger of collapsing suddenly.  Needless to say, I had the model with fall detection. 

But to answer you question--there's no danger of it interfering with or affecting your pacemaker in any way. 

Independent Living

by AgentX86 - 2024-04-26 16:50:31

Perfect answers, New To Pace.  I'm sure it's the right move. You won't regret it.

My mother sold her house and lived in an independent living apartment for almost twenty years. Instead of being more or less isolated, she was living with friends, many of whom she'd known for fifty years.  She lived there until she was in her mid-90s.

She lived there until she got to where she couldn't take care of herself anymore.  My brother (he lived closest to her) looked for nursing facilities and was aghast and how bad they were, even for the upper-end ridiculously expensive places.  I went to a few of them with them. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" came to mind.  He decided to take her into his home and hire nursing assistance.  She passed away less than a year later.

Selling her house and moving into independent living was the best move she could have made.