Long-term care benefit recipients may receive panic button services.
Panic buttons are connected to a staffed call center, receiving and answering to emergency calls from the elderly who found themselves in a situation of distress, 24 hours a day.
You can receive the service for a quarter care hour per week, without extra fee.
In other words, if you are entitled to a level long-term care benefit, you can receive a panic button and 9.45 home weekly care hours, instead of 10 care hours without a distress transmitter.
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Service includes:
- Permanent panic button installed on the wall
- Mobile panic button device on the elderly's body
- Call center services 365 days a year and 24 hours a day
- Emergency calls response
- Immediate contact with relatives and alarming medical treatment agents.
"Enhanced panic button" service
The "enhanced panic button" service involves usual panic button services with the addition of a supporter, a dedicated contact person, who will personally answer to the calls of the elderly and follow him or her over time.
You can receive enhanced service for a quarter care hour per week from a manpower agency or for 45 minutes of weekly care from the Seculife company - without extra fee.