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Life Advice / Help with panic button thing for my Grandma
« on: August 31, 2013, 08:05:26 pm »My Dad is trying to get something cheap set up for my Grandma (who lives with us) to be able to contact us easily if she needs help.
Those Med-Alert things are usually set up to call the emergency services and they are expensive-ish.
The things that contact cell phones are usually blue tooth so they don't work over distance.
I've been trying to look around online for a cheap solution and haven't found a good one yet.
Requirements:
some device that can either connect to a cell phone or get a signal to an internet service like twitterthe device needs to look very simple because my Grandma is Pentecostal and won't use most technology (like TV)
I thought I'd ask for help here because I have found the people of these forums to be tech-savvy and intelligent as well as nice, helpful, fix-it, and "do it yourself" people.
Edit: Thanks for the replies. My Dad ended up using a service called Iris. It's through Lowes a US hardware store.