The Community Alarm Service provides special equipment that is linked to a person’s telephone system, which enables a person to get help quickly, via a 24 hour, 365 day monitoring centre.

To call for help, a button is pressed on an easy to use pendant alarm, which places a call through to the monitoring centre.  Friendly and trained operators respond to the call, and provide the appropriate support. This may include calling a nominated family member, neighbour or friend, or if necessary alert the emergency services.   The people who answer the call will have access to relevant information about you, so are able to respond quickly and appropriately to your call.

It is also possible to link additional equipment such as smoke detectors, flood detectors, temperature detectors to the system which will send a warning to the monitoring centre if activated.

A weekly charge is made for the hiring of the equipment and the monitoring centre.

For a free home demonstration or if you would like to know more please contact the Community Alarm Service on 01225 477892 or fax 01225 336471.

For further Information and keeping you up to date about new technology and how telecare solutions can support services for older people - see Tunstall's website.