Please help me solve a problem!

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Relative has cancer and is getting weaker, fell this morning while his wife was upstairs and she couldn't hear him, she has hearing problems and his voice is not as strong as it was. He can't use a mobile phone.
What would be handy is something that he could wear/keep on him that would make a loud sound that his wife would hear from other rooms.

Any ideas????

A whistle around his neck?

Thanks! That might work but he is very breathless which might be a problem.

Get him a personal alarm. There's loads for sale on Amazon. You can put it on a lanyard and they are activated by either pressing a button or pulling a pin.

Emergency whistles would be ideal, it is battery operated and pretty loud

they come as key chains, he can easily hang it on his trousers...

it might be too loud for his ears though, better to test one

Great.
I've found a personal alarm that can be worn like a wristwatch - seems like the best option, it will always be in the same place!

You can get a wireless doorbell. I've seen it used in classrooms where the teacher wears the button bit round their neck and then when they push it it rings the bell to make the children stop wheat they're doing. We have wireless doorbells in our house and you can control the volume daily and the base unit can be moved around so if wife was in say the garden she could take it with her.

My gran had a proper emergency buzzer that she wore around her neck. The only problem was, when she fell, she landed on it and couldn't get it free to press it, so maybe bear this in mind wherever who end up putting it.

I wish to God my Aunt would wear hers/ The GP got one organised. My Aunt took offront to that. My brother explained until he was blue in the face the reason for wearing it. "Oh I never fall". She wears those slippery ballet shoes indoors and always has stuff on her stairs.

My brother then said she would have to be prepared for police/ambulance crew to kick the door down. Unless she wqs prepared to have a key lock installed. Eventually it sunk in to her tiny brain...... Still won't wear anything around her neck or her wrist and no longer has the service available. Stubborn old moggy!

Yes, the wristwatch alarms are brilliant. My elderly friend has one since she had both hips replaced as she's been getting more frail in recent months.

Get a couple of echo dots then you can announce something & every device in the house repeats it. We have 6 in the house & use them like an intercom

We've had a similar issue with DM and DF. I contacted Adult Services who did an assessment at home to identify their needs.
We were advised to get a falls pendant for DM and wrist strap for DF alongside a few other minor changes. It's helped a lot.
If you don't want to speak to SS then try AgeConcern they and others supply falls alarms systems.

Baby monitor.

Thanks for all the suggestions. The simple wrist alarm will be ideal. It's just so that his wife can hear from upstairs or the kitchen.