Lifeline keyholders

[rara67]

Do you have any ideas as to who we can approach and ask to be keyholders? MIL lives 50 miles away. I am setting up Lifeline for her and that will mean asking people to be keyholders. She's 80 and so are all her friends. Her neighbours are 80+. I think I could ask the other side (a couple with no DCs) but they both work nights. My DH left the town over 30 years ago and so has lost touch with a lot of people (and he's not very good at asking for help!) Thanks

Get a key safe, then you can send anyone you can get hold of the number to get in, the police or friend, you can change the number each time it is used if you want,

get it bolted to the wall out of easy sight.

Thank you both. We are going to get a key safe as we are limited on keyholders. I guess that takes away the pressure from others as we could put ourselves down as the main contact and depending on the time of day/night we get the call, then we decide who to call.

My parents have just had a keysafe fitted by their district council handyman service (which is totally fab - some things for safety are free, but otherwise its a fixed fee of £17 an hour, no call out, so dad got the gate fixed, keysafe fitted, a tap fixed, and something else all done in an hour). Theirs is by a downpipe so not in easy sight.

Its a great relief as now the carers, their cleaner, OOH GP etc all have the code, and I could phone someone locally in an emergency and tell them the code to get them in.