Check Your Medical Alert Systems

87-year-old Jewel Wig has had a LifeLine Medical Alert System in her home for 11 years. Wig says, "It's very much a security. I'm by myself and if something happens, I know, I'll always have that to take care of it."

LifeLine has 585 Medical Alert Systems in Madison and surrounding counties. And if you have one, you can get help from HEMSI in about 20 seconds. That's if the system works. And you can make sure it does, by checking the system once a month. Teri Patterson of LifeLine says, "That way, they make sure the battery in the button is good and the battery in the box is good, the communicator that communicates with our dispatch center or any dispatch center."

But even with good batteries, the system can go down. But only if your phone goes dead. Patterson says, "If the phone system is down, then your life line is down. But as long as you have a phone line, you have life line whether the power is out or not."

And that's the security Jewel Wig depends on every day.

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Tom Woodard - NewsChannel 19 - http://www.whnt.com