Quote Originally Posted by wnyrider View Post
My Mom has one of those med alert units in her Florida place and it does connect to the landline. However, the laundry room is outside her villa and the med alert unit wouldn't be of assistance if she fell out there-- out of range. We looked into the SPOT Personal Tracker...
http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=101
This was a promising option, but we didn't get her one since she ended up planning to come up north shortly thereafter. We simply got her a lanyard for her cell phone so she could have it on hand when she did her laundry in the meantime.
Hmmmm, this is interesting. Mom does have a cell phone, so perhaps your lanyard solution would be an appropriate option as well. I suspect the SPOT unit wouldn't be much different in size, and perhaps be larger. Good food for discussion with my sister.

Mom is 71, and while she does have health issues, I think she does pretty good for someone who has had cancer, and a few chronic health problems. She is moving in with my sister more for financial reasons at this point, and I am looking for ways that I can help out. I don't have a lot myself, but I don't want all of the burden to be on my sister. While my relationship with my mother has been far from normal for my entire 51 years, she still IS my mother...Thanks for the comments!