Caregiver Pager with Bed Alarm & Bed Sensor Pad - No Alarm in Resident's Room!

This gave my family piece of mind. My family is deaf and we needed a way to monitor my father at night when my deaf family was caring for him Most of the bed alarms have an auditory alarm which is worthless to us. This was the only one we could find with a vibrate mode. It works fantastically. Even for me (who can hear), I am able to sleep at noght without having to “keep one eye open” and listen for him to get out of bed. I highly recommend this especially if you have a deaf family,

I take care of a 97 year old with dementia. She has had a few falls, but, like meny others, still thinks she can do everything on her own. She gets up several times @ night to go to the restroom. We have a video monitor, but even with that, I have sleepless nights.,it doesn't alert to movement and the night vision is not great. I tried this bed pad alarm, and was so disappointed. It gives off 2 beeps everytime there is movement. So, even when she would just roll over, it would give off the 2 beeps in her room. And the call button lights up on the unit attached to the pad, and makes a clicking noise. All of this alerted my patient and made her try to get up several times to figure out what was going on. You cannot turn the alarm off remotely either. So the pager keeps alarming until you go into the room and hit the reset button. And that REALLY sucks. My patient sits up in bed sometimes to sip on water. So, when she sits up, the pagers goes off and I have to try to get into her room to hit the reset button before she lays back down, and that confuses her even more. Its a good idea, but really poor design. If they made the product so it didnt alert the patient, and you could reset the alarm remotely, it would be a great product. But, as it is, its not worth it.

"No Alarm in Patient's Room" Except for the 2 loud beeps that sound when the pad is activated. And the click which I think means the pad is disconnected (this sounds like a large rodent barking a warning signal). In short, absolutely not for a still alert and active patient who is up and down all day and all you want to do is know that they are up. After an hour and 15 minutes of frantically trying to install the batteries everywhere (no instructions on this for the caregiver unit), and trying to turn the volume down (had to take it back off the bed and apart again because the instructions for this are the last thing to do, plus I have no clue where the volume control is--that teeny tiny portion of the teeny tiny plate that has all the other teeny tiny dials on it is absolutely blank), I had to move the bed away from wall--again--and wrestle the patient box off the bedframe--again--and get the pad out from under the mattress pad--again (about the 3rd time, since I had to keep backtracking to do something else to something that wasn't mentioned previously, I still wasn't done because the caregiver unit (the remote) has to be PROGRAMMED to the patient unit--so THIS is what I was cranking up and down when I thought I was turning the volume down, only it wasn't working. And EVERYTHING is teeny tiny--all screws, all internal controls. I will hold onto this product, one, because I've had it too long to return it (was waiting for a chance to do it when the patient wouldn't know about it; two, because it was the best one I could find--longest life pad, silent setting on caregiver unit (but NOT patient unit, remember--this thing beeps like a fire alarm getting ready to blast--not the best thing for a nervous paranoid patient), three, because if I don't end up using it, somebody else may buy it from me. Well made? Maybe--just have your magnifying glass ready, all you baby boomer caregivers out there. And read the directions like 5 times, including reading them starting at the LAST step, just so you'll have a clear picture of what needs to be done BEFORE something else is done. And--I guess-be sure to arrange the furniture in the room AROUND this device, because a patient bed against the wall will wear you out disconnecting and reconnecting the pad (in cases like mine where your patient is very active and extremely suspicious about things they find). As for the alarms--loud enough (obnoxious in my case, even the short beeps to activate the pad). The voice portion of the caregiver unit could NOT be silenced on my unit--it could be turned down very low, but still chanted "bed 1" at intervals. It's okay--I just hate it for what I wanted it for. Three stars because the directions as well as the sales pitch could have been much, much clearer.

This has provided a safe means for caregivers to respond in a timely manner when father is attempting to get out of bed without extreme disruption to my mother's sleep. It tends to slide down in the bed from shoulder height to his buttocks requiring repositoning when we put him to bed, but keeping it at shoulder height allows us to assist him before he attempts to get out of bed. There are some crackling noises and it will alarm after the cat gets up from her nap on the bed, but gives peace of mind during the night.

My mother was able to come home with out-patient therapists rotating in and out. My family took turns spending the night each night as she was so confused. They were mainly sleepless nights (one eye open). When this device arrived it changed that for the most part. You could actually sleep knowing that you would be alerted if she rose from the bed. Later as improvement came I was able to sleep in my own house 55' away. The wireless signal reached all the way into my basement which I found impressive.The only issue was that when she first sits down it sounds off to let you know it is armed and working. Problem is it would startle her and then she would jump up actually triggering the alarm. With a confused, forgetful stroke victim it happened EVERY time. Still it was worth the effort and peace of mind. The "ding #1" audio got a little old but I understand that if you cared for several people at once this would be beneficial. Also make sure it is under the back area and not the lower half of the body as raises legs and position changes will set it off. We researched several of these, including in town and I believe we chose the right one here on-line from Amazon. It ships directly from the manufacturer and that costs another $10.00

Stopped working after 5 months. It worked great for the first few months then was intermittent. We no longer have confidence in the unit and was unable to return it for a replacement. So, we ordered a motion detector with remote alarm that will alert us if he is getting out of bed or his chair. I was disappointed that the bed alarm didn't last longer and that it wasn't returnable after only 30 days...