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Time to get a medic alert device

blacksparky
blacksparky Member Posts: 81
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My DW with EOAD is now in stages 5/6. She can’t tell me her phone number or where ashe lives. Her vocabulary has dwindled to a couple of hundred words. She spends most of her day folding clothes over and over. She talks to her special friends all day. The other day I wanted to see what she would do if I were to fall and just laying on the floor. When she saw me laying there, she just walked around me and continued to do her folding and things. Eventually she decided to sit down and watch TV never acknowledging that I was laying on the floor. I’m thinking there’s more of us here that might need to think about looking into getting a medic alert device.

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  • Sweetwater
    Sweetwater Member Posts: 22
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  • charley0419
    charley0419 Member Posts: 453
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    my wife not that bad yet but I have played game with her making like I become unresponsive what do you do , by the time she figures out I’d be gone. Don’t really know what to do when she even worse. The first alert is great if they remember to use it. It’s something I think about all the time.

  • jfkoc
    jfkoc Member Posts: 4,290
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    I live alone which is basically what you are doing when facing an emergency. With much research I got Bay Medical SOS 2 for the GPS. incase I am not within 600' of the base. I really like working with them.

  • Carl46
    Carl46 Member Posts: 830
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    I am wearing mine right now. I bought it when I realized my wife didn't know which item on the desk was the phone, even while it was ringing. Mine has a fall alarm for about $5/month extra, so it will call for help even if I am unconscious and can't push the button. And the alarm company has the garage door opener codes so they don't have to kick down my front door, and the name of my emergency contact so someone can be informed I have gone to hospital, and the information that a PWD lives with me and shouldn't be left alone.

  • SDianeL
    SDianeL Member Posts: 1,523
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    good idea to get an alert button in case you fall. I would also have someone check on you daily as a backup.

Commonly Used Abbreviations


DH = Dear Husband
DW= Dear Wife, Darling Wife
LO = Loved One
ES = Early Stage
EO = Early Onset
FTD = Frontotemporal Dementia
VD = Vascular Dementia
MC = Memory Care
AL = Assisted Living
POA = Power of Attorney
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