Trusted by Nurses

Maureen Cable is our Nurse Ambassador. ​She has worked in healthcare, across intensive care and A&E, for five decades. She knows first-hand how important early access to emergency care is and is a strong advocate for our alarms’ rapid connection time and the caring, fully trained team that’s always ready.

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When is the best time to get a personal alarm?

By Maureen Cable

The subtle nagging worry that sits in the back of your mind, the ‘what if’ I were to fall right now, ‘what if’ I couldn’t get out of this bath, ‘what if’ I have another of those funny turns. 

All of that disappears like scotch mist the moment you get a Careline365 personal alarm. And as soon as you hear the responder’s voice for the first time you will relax...and smile. At the same time your daughter, son or concerned friend may burst into tears at the relief and peace of mind that your personal alarm gives them.

No-one wants to admit to weakness, and pride makes many people hesitate before getting an alarm as if it is an admission of frailty; but actually it is simply a matter of managing risk – we have fire alarms without expecting a fire, house insurance without expecting building collapse, so why not a personal alarm ‘just in case’?

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The key to maintaining independence

By Maureen Cable

The importance of nursing, care and medicine was crystal clear to me from my earliest years. Being raised in a nursing/medical family, stories about injuries, treatments and outcomes were normal conversation at home. 

Inevitably I trained as a nurse and was privileged to work with many excellent colleagues in general medicine and surgery, A&E, oncology, ITU, and orthopaedics, nursing people back to health after accidents or medical emergencies. 

After a full-time clinical career, I ran nursing and care services and latterly had my own personal alarm company.

Throughout all that time the one consistent winning factor for best outcomes has been the immediate access to skilled treatment and care.

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How a personal alarm can change your life.

By Maureen Cable

When I was nursing in the community it was always concerning to have the door opened by an older person sporting a black eye, an arm in a sling or a leg in a cast. 

Some kind of mishap had clearly occurred and there was always a story. All to often the previously independent individual would have suffered a fall, and both the lead up to the fall and the time taken to get help afterwards would be significant factors in the rate of recovery and the level of independence regained thereafter.

When I started providing alarms, I knew that the degree of regained independence would be positively impacted, but better than that – the
avoidance of the loss of independence that the early identification and
treatment of potential threats deliver.

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Your free guide to personal alarms

You’ll find everything you need to know about personal alarms in this free guide. In it, we cover how they work, how they help, and how you can choose the right one.

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