Hi, RachelA. While AARP Friendly Voice seems like a lovely idea, it's not quite what I'm looking for. What I was asking about was a company where you could call or text them every day to let them know that you're alive and well. I came across a company called "Iamfine" where you do this by a pre-designated time each day and if they don't hear from you by then, they will try you four more times for an hour after that and if they still don't hear from you will then alert a pre-designated contact person or persons that they haven't been able to get in touch with you and that person will take it from there. I was hoping that someone could offer opinions on that company or other companies that provide that similar service.
So it's not quite like Life Alert where you press a button in the event of an emergency, but it's a better option than the prospect of being deceased for days or weeks before anyone knows that something is amiss! My late Dad lived in a senior apartment building where there was a plastic disc on each apartment door that the resident flipped down by a certain time each morning, and a staff person would then walk the hallways looking for for discs that hadn't been flipped down which would signify that something was wrong and they could then check on that resident. I live in a regular high-rise, so there's no such service currently available to me.
