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This has been around for several years, so you may all know it. On a mobile phone, put in a quick-dial phone number labeled "ICE". ICE = In Case of Emergency, and most emergency responders know to look for this on a mobile phone.
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Originally Posted by Happy in Wyoming
How old are you?
How old to we need to be to be considered senile fools?
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Originally Posted by oddstray
The tip of having an "ICE" number in a mobile phone applies to all people of all ages. Unless we never, ever go anywhere where's there's vehicle traffic, or natural disasters, that would include you and me.
If you're touchy about your age, what the heck are you doing hanging around in a retirement forum?
I repeat, how old are you? Thirty-five? You don't carry a phone of that sort yet you recommend it for old people.
I'm not ashamed of my age. I'll be seventy this year and have a full-time business. I'm not an overgrown teenager who needs every new and trendy electronic device; I'm a man who buys what he considers worthwhile in electronics as in everything else. I am seeking neither an electronic nor a human keeper. Perhaps I've reached the age when death no longer frightens me.
This has been around for several years, so you may all know it. On a mobile phone, put in a quick-dial phone number labeled "ICE". ICE = In Case of Emergency, and most emergency responders know to look for this on a mobile phone.
Actually I didn't know this. Thanks for the tip. All 14 of my quick-dials are family emergency contacts, but not all are close-by.
One size does not fit all. Some folks, it seems to me, are all too ready to acquiesce in their own disability, as if they have accepted that it is bound to happen by age X. Not me.
"Safety" talk does not mean that after a certain age we are all going to tumble down a flight of stairs and be killed. There are plenty of regular old day to day safety issues that affect seniors. Like last week I saw an older (70s?) couple getting out of their car in a more remote part of the parking lot, she with her pocketbook on top of the car while they loaded groceries and the car was running Some older folks seem to be in a fog, thinking the world a safe, sane and harmless place. For anyone with "intent" this couple was an easy target.
Another safety issue: walking behind an older couple into Best Buy, I see the woman trip on the rug, her sneaker caught on it and she lunged forward but her man caught her. My grandmother's worst fall was after catching the toe of her sneaker on the rug in her LR. She went down with a mighty crash. You can be fit as a fiddle and this can happen to any of us at any age, but for a senior it can mean very slow healing fall. Remove rugs, and/or don't wear rubber tipped shoes.
Reminders to each other along these lines may not help you, but they could help others of us.
The tip of having an "ICE" number in a mobile phone applies to all people of all ages. Unless we never, ever go anywhere where's there's vehicle traffic, or natural disasters, that would include you and me.
You're absolutely right...the "ICE" number(s) tip is for everybody. I changed my cell phone contact list and put "ICE" before each of my sons' names/phone numbers. Hopefully, no one will ever have to look through my phone to see who my emergency contacts are, but just in case, I've taken care of it.
"Safety" talk does not mean that after a certain age we are all going to tumble down a flight of stairs and be killed. There are plenty of regular old day to day safety issues that affect seniors. Like last week I saw an older (70s?) couple getting out of their car in a more remote part of the parking lot, she with her pocketbook on top of the car while they loaded groceries and the car was running Some older folks seem to be in a fog, thinking the world a safe, sane and harmless place. For anyone with "intent" this couple was an easy target.
Another safety issue: walking behind an older couple into Best Buy, I see the woman trip on the rug, her sneaker caught on it and she lunged forward but her man caught her. My grandmother's worst fall was after catching the toe of her sneaker on the rug in her LR. She went down with a mighty crash. You can be fit as a fiddle and this can happen to any of us at any age, but for a senior it can mean very slow healing fall. Remove rugs, and/or don't wear rubber tipped shoes.
Reminders to each other along these lines may not help you, but they could help others of us.
Better yet, just swaddle yourself in bubble wrap and hibernate. After all, real life's a risky business, dontcha know.
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Some older folks seem to be in a fog, thinking the world a safe, sane and harmless place. For anyone with "intent" this couple was an easy target. 
