In addition to the advantages normally associated with personal emergency response systems, one municipality has found that elderly people using PERS systems can actually decrease the burden on government health care programs, such as Medicaid.  Check out the link below.

Cody, WY -West Park Hospital Home Health Grows Thanks to Grant on ADVANCE for Nurses

“This grant provides seniors 60 and older at risk for nursing home or institutional placement [with] in-home services such as homemaking, personal care and personal emergency response systems,” said Linda Harbron, RN, director of WPH’s Home Health Services and Spirit Mountain Hospice. “It has saved the Medicaid program in Wyoming literally millions of dollars by keeping people out of nursing homes and out of the hospital.”

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