Not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but I thought I'd try here. I keep seeing more and more people wearing the Apple smart watches. Does anybody here have one, or some information about how well they work as medical alert devices, as well as being watches? I already have a good cell phone, and am wondering if this would be redundant. The main advantage I can think of is that the watch is worn all the time, while most of us don't "wear" our phone.
I already have a medical alert device that I wear as a pendant. (They also have a model that can be worn on your wrist, but it isn't really a watch, it just looks like one.) The monthly charge for the Apple iwatch is less than what I pay for my Lively alert system. And obviously, it does a lot more, or it says it does, anyway. But I don't know too much about them. Would it be a good idea to change?
I second
@Happyflowerlady i don’t believe my husband would be still with me if he’d not had his Apple Watch
First of all he had several a-fib attacks that left him lethargic / weak / dizzy but unless he had the watch he and the medical profession would have been guessing what was wrong with him , he was able to send automatic recordings to the heart specialist who contacted us 1/2 hour after ringing our GP, ( he’d never had anything like it before )
The data of any Heath / issues / sleep / is recorded on his phone so he was able to send the info to the cardiologist in 5 mins
the cardiologist then phoned back with a urgent app which we had to travel to the city for as we only have specialists that visit 6 times a year where we live .
2. We had the postie arrive with new cartridges for our under sink water Filtration system x 2
and hubs being hubs decided he’d get to it and replace the filters then , so he went out to his shed without putting his work boots on as normal ….cause all he intended doing was washing the filter housings ( uses chemical free rainwater ) as well as wetting the filters before installing them .
He has a very shiny floor in the shed ( easier to sweep and mop to keep clean so he says )
so he was in and out of the shed playing with water …. shoes were wet ( runners ) instead of work boots
and he slipped in the door way , snapping the ball of his hip completely off .
He was able to phone me from his watch ( after dismissing the watches ability to call emergency services if you don’t respond to a button …no I’m OK ….)
I’d hate to think what would be become of someone who lives alone and didn’t have some sort of reliable emergency contact in such cases as a broken hip , we hear of so many seniors dying from trips and falls resulting in broken hips .
I calmly phoned the ambulance as I could see from the angle of his leg / foot he had a suspected BH which he had , he was flown to Adelaide by helicopter for emergency surgery ( complete hip replacement ) and spent 3 weeks in hospital becuse He was in a critical condition ..or… he would have been kept at the local hospital till a ambulance could transport him to Adelaide ( you only get flown to the city in Emergencys )
So it all boils down to how much you value your Health or welfare if you have a Apple watch / other brand watch / or some other Heath and welfare device… IMO do your home work as we did …look at reviews ..thrn make a decision what’s best for YOUR NEEDS
especially if you live alone
By the way we both bought our Apple phones 12 ..his is pro 12 outright , as we did with our watches neither cost us anything in monthly fees …..never have ….unless we’d chosen to be on a pay by the month plan for calls / data / ….paying through the nose for the phone ….. . We pay for our data / calls yearly …..( for our phones ) …...that’s it ..costs us each $150 .00 a year
for 60 g data and all calls / texts / sms and I’ve got so much data I’ll never use, cause we don’t loose any leftover data allowance when renewing our 365 day plan
