"John" wrote:

If you lose coordination, let's hope there's someone available to
call
911 for you...

I can't emphasize enough that any senior who is living alone should as
a condition for living alone, wear a medical alert.

It was a deal I made with my mother.

At 102, she fell and suffered a compound fracture of her right leg in
the middle of the night.

She was able to press the button and get help or she would have bled
to death.

Lew