Living alone, looking for an app to check in on a regular base.

Requirements and use cases need to be clear in order to choose (or create) the ideal app (or combo of apps).

My personal requirements/use-cases for an ideal app would be:
1. I could tell it I was going to go take a shower and if I'm not out in x-minutes to worry about me.
2. It should act like a service-dog and constantly monitor if I'm within normal (e.g., tell whether I fell asleep watching TV versus unconscious)
3. If I yell for 'help!' it should call appropriate help.
4. It should be with me all the time, such as if I fell off an embankment and broke my leg while hiking, it should respond to me yelling help.
5. If I was unconscious or dead it would call for help on its own initiative. Promptly (not at a next-scheduled call time).

I wonder if one of those i-phone watches would do most of that?
 

Xotten said:
I love my life, I am a crazy artist and always busy. I start to realize that I don't hv ppl coming over, since I don't like to be disturbed. When I feel that I need some social contact, I go out and visit my friends. They know who and what I am so they let me be me. I wonder if there is an app that can check in on me every lets say week. (erm, lets make that every 3 days) LoL. To make sure that I'm still alive. For me its no problem (Ill' be gone) but for the family and friends its less attractive. So yeah, does anyone have an idea?
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I sense a contradiction here. You're clearly happy to be alone, and pursuing your own artistic ideal. You have friends, and you visit them. Yet you want them to know you're not dead. So my question would be, what's the issue you have with your death? What is it you want your friends to know? Why?

There are many ways to "stay in touch" - phones, social media, letters (remember those?). But given your propensity for alone time, I wonder what the calling is?
 
caramel said:
Just curious. How would it know this if it's before the check-in time?
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Probably would need to be an app that is worn. Someone I talked to a few months ago had gotten an apple watch from her children, and she said if she fell down it would know and contact someone.

I'm not feeling as happy about check-in times, I will probably re-activate my daily call from the county but it is a hassle to make sure I am with my phone and that it is not out of range (discovered one day that it didn't get calls when I was in the ground floor game room of the building next to my building).

But a daily call is better than nothing because at least someone would find me before I decomposed, and they would be able to arrange some care for my cat.

On the other hand, I really don't want to laying on the floor with a broken hip for up to 24 hrs waiting for the daily call. And if I had a stroke I would really prefer if I had a button I could press, and an app that would detect a fall (in case I didn't get the button pressed).

It is scary to think of the things that could happen.
 
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