Increasingly we see the two categories of Medical Alert Systems and Home Sensor Systems merging in the future. Our analyst team has done a lot of research on both of these categories.
In this series of discussions with older adults you can hear for yourself what they like and dislike about current products, and what their ideas about the ideal products are.
The Freeus Belle is a mobile, go anywhere medical alert. It is of the same class of product as those we reviewed in our comparative analysis of mobile medical alerts. Note: This has quite different characteristics to its sister product (which looks extremely similar) the Freeus Belle+. This product is made by OEM supplier to … Read more
The Freeus Belle+ is a mobile, go anywhere medical alert. It is of the same class of product as those we reviewed in our comparative analysis of mobile medical alerts. This product is made by OEM supplier to the medical alert industry, Freeus. It is resold by a variety of medical alert companies under various names. You … Read more
This is a go anywhere mobile alert with fall detection. This is a rebranded version of the Belle+ made by wholesaler Freeus. It has a couple of noteworthy features, in addition to those typical for products in this class.
The MobileHelp Solo is an unusual “go anywhere” medical alert system, in which you take with you both a small mobile base station (for example in your purse) and a conventional medical alert pendant. It is part of the MobileHelp Duo family: basically this is the mobile base station portion of the Duo, without the … Read more
The MobileHelp Classic is the MobileHelp Duo, but without the second mobile base station. This means it works at home, but not when you go “out and about”. It is a traditional medical alert system, but the base station connects via a cellular signal so you do not need to connect it to your home … Read more
For years we have been hearing older adults complain about how ugly and stigmatizing medical alerts are. As one lady told us: “My medical alert button makes me look like I escaped from the Intensive Care Unit. So I hardly ever wear it“. Could these products change this dynamic? In 2018 a handful of products came … Read more
The Apple Watch is one of several products we compared in a piece of research called “Smartwatch as Medical Alert”. This review is about using the Apple Watch with only its native emergency alert software (called Emergency SOS).
The FallCall Lite App (+ Apple Watch) is one of several products we compared in a piece of research called “Smartwatch as Medical Alert”. To use this product you start with an Apple watch, and then download an App called FallCall Lite. The App adds the medical alert functionality. Because all the functionality of the Apple watch is still there too, you get the full capability of a smartwatch, plus medical alert capability.
Since 2015 we have been doing comparative evaluations of a wide variety of medical alert systems, including those for “out and about” use, which we call “mobile medical alert systems”. On this page we include some of our original, in-depth testing results, because even though some of the products have been replaced with newer … Read more
We did hands-on, comparative evaluations of mobile alerts: a specific sub-category of medical alert systems — with the goal of helping people choose the best products in this category. Overview, Background, and Context At Tech-enhanced Life, our community of technologists, Longevity Explorers, and children of aging parents have been conducting hands-on, comparative evaluation of a … Read more