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After decades of campy television advertisements, Life Alert’s latest commercial is no joke. The company that trademarked the phrase, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!,” has some people upset after the ...

Life Alert Emergency Response, Inc. launched the first personal emergency response system (PERS) in 1987. Since then, it has become a trusted service for older adults and people with medical ...

More than 5,500 New Yorkers will be able to immediately cancel their contract with Life Alert, the California-based emergency response system company, through a settlement with New York Attorney ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Falling is often a painful and frightening experience, especially when one is elderly and lives alone. According to the Centers for ...

Life Alert and other PERS allow a person at home to push a button to call for help when in trouble. The costs of PERS usually involve the initial installation charge and a monthly monitoring fee.

A homicide victim may have tried to use his Life Alert to call for help when he was stabbed repeatedly inside his northeast Houston apartment Wednesday afternoon, according to HPD. HFD paramedics ...