Phillip R.

1800wheelchair.com is a perfectly fine online store where you can buy scooters, wheelchairs, walkers, and so on. Their customer service is only okay though. I think you can do better by buying on Amazon.

Alert-1 is another very popular emergency medical alert system. I also reviewed Life Alert so I thought I would review Alert-1 too. The problem with these medical alert systems is that they don't work outside the home. You need to be near their base station thing. For that reason, I decided to get my elderly uncle a really simple to use cell phone instead. In addition to that they have new medical alert systems that have fall detection that makes them better. I'd shop around before getting Alert-1.

Life Alert ads are all over the place, but I don't think they offer the best medical alert system anymore (if they ever did). Don't get me wrong, Life Alert isn't bad but when I was doing research on medical alert systems for an elderly uncle, I found that there are a bunch of new technologies that are probably a lot better. Everything from cell phones with emergency alerts (cell phones can be better than these pendants because they work outside of the home) to medical alert pendants with fall detection. I'd look for more options before buying Life Alert.