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House Alarm Systems For the Elderly

By Fiona Clarkson


Purchasing a home security system can be a fantastic investment decision for a variety of reasons. However, when you have elderly relatives, there might be some unexpected reasons to install such a system - even when you think they live in a fairly safe area.It may be difficult for older people to recognize they can no longer care for themselves like they used to. It seems like we spend our whole lives finally learning how to take care of ourselves physically, emotionally, and financially, only to slowly lose these capacities as we age. While it may be a cruel irony, getting older is a fact of life.

When evaluating the house security needs of elderly relatives, we've to make a realistic account of what they are still capable of performing, and of the reverse, without any regard towards the way things "used to be." Unfortunately, to protect our loved ones, it's sometimes essential to look at things with a clinical eye.Even if older individuals are insistent they are still totally capable of doing all the things they used to do, they also have to acknowledge how they look to the outside world. Elderly individuals are often seen as frail, slow-witted, and out of touch with the current realities of how the world works. For all these reasons, they are frequently seen as easy targets by criminals, especially when living alone. One would think that all the life experience of older individuals would actually produce the opposite effect in criminals.

It is not hard to imagine that an older person may have been through one or several break-ins earlier within their life, actually making them more prepared for crime than younger individuals moving into their first apartment. One might also think that because older people might believe that the bulk of their lives are behind them, they may be much more inclined to take riskier actions to stop a break-in or stop one in progress, thus making retaliation against a burglar more likely. The criminal mind, however, is not necessarily built to handle logic. Again, above all, it's most important to be realistic about elderly relatives' security needs.

When discussing a house alarm system with an elderly relative, in addition to hitting the above points, it might be useful to discuss the home monitoring aspect that is typically a part of these systems. Older people frequently face risks doing day to day tasks that younger people wouldn't even think twice about doing. A miscalculated reach for a pot or pan might trigger a debilitating fall; a forgetful "senior moment" may result in an overheated iron setting fire to the drapes; and well, anyone with an aging parent could probably run through a million other nightmare scenarios. A security system can actually be a life-saver for an elderly relative, and indeed for anyone who needs a little assistance caring for themselves from day to day.






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