Does anyone have any experience of an Apple Watch as a falls watch?.

[Ihad2Strokes]

Hi

I have found a brilliant watch by 'Your Stride' which if I had found them in January (when I had my Stroke) I would have bought one immediately. It is basically a plain watch that step counts but it's main function is to be a falls alarm, a real human speaks to you if it senses you have had a fall and will contact your designated person or emergency services for you and will chat to you (I think until Help arrives, but I'm not sure). It's £59.99 to buy and £20 per month for the monitoring, which seems completely reasonable to me.

However, it doesn't do a lot of the things an Apple Watch would do and the Apple Watch is smaller and less utilitarian. (obviously more expensive but since the Stroke using my phone for the time and various other things is more difficult than it was before, so I was looking at getting some kind of watch anyway)

The information about the Apple Watch says it does sense falls and if you don't press the button within a given time it will contact the emergency services.

I was just wondering if anyone had any actual experience of this working?

I'd rather put the money towards an Apple Watch that I actually want, then a very utilitarian falls watch, but only if it's going to do this one thing I absolutely need which is contact the emergency services should I have a fall.

One other consideration is that the Your Stride watch is not waterproof and I would need to remove it to have a shower whereas the Apple Watch is waterproof. I am most surprised that Your Stride watch isn't waterproof, but it isn't, so there you go.

Any experience of the apple watch working effectively as a falls watch or other comments, much appreciated.

Yeah, you're not in enough debt for us to lend you any money

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My credit rating is pretty good because I do use my credit cards a lot, for the weekly shop& before the Stroke all my petrol & most are non-direct debit purchases. Then before I was made redundant, paid the credit card off every month when I got paid. Pretty quick way to get good credit. & (so far 🤣🤣) have managed not to mess up any Mortgage payments or anything like that.

i'm okay with buying the watch, the annoying thing is I would need to change from Giffgaff to one of the five providers for my phone because they're the only ones that support the watch🙇🏻‍♀️ I would have been happy to take out a watch only contract but no one does it, they all insist on you having your phone with them first?🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️. I've lost track of how long I've been with Giffgaff. For over a decade.& until this watch issue had absolutely no reason to change, for what I need, it cost me six quid a month & was more than enough. Plus only monthly commitment so no ties.

Everything just feels so complicated all the time, why can't they just be a simple solution, that one of the providers offer a watch only deal??

Sorry! Quite often there are posts from people who have a fairly basic understanding of how a phone works, I am also frequently trying to explain it all to a very elderly mother who can't get her head around the difference between wifi and mobile data, I may have misjudged!

In your situation I wouldn’t trust it for this purpose or choose it over a device mainly for the purpose. It doesn’t alert emergency services, though think that depends on how it’s set up. It’s not that sensitive in my experience of falling while running and once at home.

I had an alert from mine telling me I appear to be at risk of falling! I don't need a reminder that I have a knackered foot thank you! Seriously, I don't wear mine often but if I was on my own then I probably would for the fall detection alone.

No, please don't apologise 🤗

As I said, the brain frog is real!! I'm so very tired after the stroke. I'm not thinking properly and I already had brain fog anyway I presume from menopause but who knows? It didn't even occur to me to turn the mobile data off.🙄🙄

I was very grateful for your post, sorry my reply did didn't convey that to you!!

I was feeling too dizzy and shaky today so I didn't give it a go but hopefully over the next few days I can give it a go very close to home at least.

Oh, that's interesting and was my concern originally? (if it was sensitive enough) but quite a few others on the thread have said it's overly sensitive and it has rung the emergency services when they've needed to or they've been able to switch the alert off to call the emergency services so that they were able to call someone else.

Which model iPhone do you have?

Hi, yes, all these things seem to come with a nice patronising message occasionally🙄

Which do you have the Your Stride or an Apple Watch? Or something else??

Sorry, I should have said it's an Apple Watch.

My husband thought it was funny when I got the message as I've been trying to convince him that I'm too young to 'have a fall', I just fall over! Actually I'm a clumsy idiot who trips over thin air (hence the bad foot) but that's beside the point!

Yes, a few years ago I tripped over a pothole🙄🙄& I was adamant I FELL OVER!! I did not have a fall!! (Will ignore the injuries. I sustained that I wouldn't have when I was younger.!!)

Yes, you're a clumsy young idiot that trips over fresh air!! (you stick to your story and I'll back you up!!)

Tell the stupid watch if it comes out with anything that ridiculous again it risk getting run over by the car!