(Click on the image for the Washington Consumers' report)
- Today more than 3 million (mostly senior) customers own these gadgets, and many models can use cell signals to communicate. They cost about $11 to $52 a month.
- How to find the best one? We’ll get to that. More important is to ask if a medical alert device is the best tool for the job of calling 911 for help. Most of them are not, and our tests of several different models found many companies actually delay emergency response, not facilitate it.
- See Susan Hogan's News4 report, "Some Medical Alert Devices May Actually Delay Response".