Originally Posted by square_eyes: “Great, an app to tell you when your Mam's boiled the kettle.”
I think it's great. You get a text each morning to say your elderly relative is OK. No text.. you think "Hmm thats odd" and you give them a ring just to make sure they're ok and not collapsed on the floor. It's genius.
Originally Posted by anyonefortennis: “That's what I was thinking. If the person took ill during the night or died. A phonecall won't help them.”
True but if the person had collapsed and was still alive but slowly deteriorating.. then it would help them. No system can ever catch all scenarios 100% of the time. A button on a phone is pointless if the OAP is laying at the bottom of a stair case with broken bones and can't move.
I get what Peter was saying.. it's not a 100% guarantee and perhaps he was nervous people would consider it one and get angry when it "failed" them. But I still think it's better than nothing and looked so simple.