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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9777506" data-attributes="member: 19675">We’re very close to getting my Mom an Apple Watch to wear around the house.  Lots of emergency safety features on those, including an automatic call to emergency services if the wearer falls and doesn’t respond to the watch’s alerts.Short of that, I’m trying to find a lanyard-style phone mini-bag on Etsy to carry her phone with her at the house.  (She normally does not carry her phone with her at home.)Because she does have the occasional fall.  And although she seems to handle those like a ninja- she’s only had a few serious falls, and most of those a decade+ ago- she DID have one in the yard one day that could have been MUCH worse.She had gone out to check on our dogs, and she lost her balance at the edge of the patio, bouncing off of a large ceramic flowerpot as she fell.  I was in the kitchen doing dishes, no more than 25’ from her.  She called out for help.But because of the intervening walls, the running water, the TV, etc., I heard nothing.  Fortunately, our neighbor on that side was doing yard work, and heard her weak pleas.  He helped her get up and back inside.  (Luckily, the dogs let him in the yard.)</blockquote>