| ng to The New England Journal of Medicine: | | | | around your home and communicate effortlessly. |
| One out of every 3 people over the age of | | | | On July 1st, 2009 Freedom Alert will be available |
| 65 will fall this year. 28% of these individuals die | | | | for online purchasing. The user has no monthly |
| due to help not arriving quick enough. Only 38% | | | | fees to pay, and the user talks directly through |
| of those who do survive the trauma return to | | | | the miniature speakerphone pendant. The true |
| living independently. According to the National | | | | innovation of Freedom Alert is that the user can |
| Safety Council, most falls occur while performing | | | | program up to four numbers into the base unit. |
| everyday tasks and activities of daily living, with | | | | When the pendant panic button is pushed |
| 54% of all falls happening in their own home. Both | | | | — the first number is dialed. If no one |
| the National Institute of Health (NIS) and the | | | | answers — the second number is |
| Centers for Disease Control (CDC) comment on | | | | automatically dialed, etc. Should no one answer |
| the use of medical alert systems as a solution for | | | | after all the programmed numbers have been |
| older seniors prone to falls. The key for anyone | | | | attempted — then Freedom Alert will dial |
| living home alone is the ability to get help quickly. | | | | 911 to guarantee a response. Once someone is |
| Freedom Alert’s emergency pendant | | | | reached, communication occurs right through the |
| ensures communication with loved ones and | | | | speakerphone pendant. No shouting across the |
| emergency services with no monthly fees. | | | | house to the speakerphone box. |
| The new Freedom Alert has two features that | | | | Use these four programmable numbers to |
| make it stand out as truly innovative in the | | | | contact family and friends. With the Freedom |
| market place. First, is that it’s the | | | | Alert, these contacts are just a push button |
| world’s smallest two-way voice | | | | away when the person is anywhere in their home |
| communicator; and second is that it requires no | | | | or even in their yard. The pendant can operate up |
| monthly fees. | | | | to 600 ft away from the base station. The base |
| Another unique feature of Freedom Alert’s | | | | station plugs into any standard phone jack in the |
| technology was the introduction of the two-way | | | | home. The pendant can be worn on a neck |
| speakerphone pendant. While other devices on the | | | | lanyard, on the included belt clip or the included |
| market require a person to shout across the | | | | wrist-strap. |
| house to a speakerphone box to communicate to | | | | Freedom Alert’s has a one time purchase |
| the monitoring station, Freedom Alert’s | | | | of only $299. This means affordable care for |
| technology put the speakerphone right in the | | | | anyone living alone is finally available. |
| miniature pendant. You can be anywhere in or | | | | |