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Originally Posted by MargaretR
It seems the norm that unless you you in an old folks block like Merlin Court or Kirk House, you only have the ground floor flats reserved for oldies and disabled.
The ground floor flats where I live have the system where they can summon help and have those key boxes outside their doors - being 1st floor I dont.
There is one young drunk in the next block down - but in my block we just have a mentally retarded chap who stomps up and down the staircase, and wanders out in the early hours calling for his cat.
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If you feel you need an emergency call system margaret, you can have one installed, well I think you can, when I lived in a upstires flat on Mallard I had one installed, by way of the ordinary phone line but I had to pay a small monthly charge, wether this still applies I don't know as it is now a firm called Three Vallies. They used to be on a pull cord system but now they are on a defused button system, and runs through the phone line, I have an emergency call button which I have round my neck all day and next to me on the bed at night. I had cause to use it in July when I was taken into hospital, it is a must, especially for people with poor health and I think the elderly too who live on their own. Oh yes after talking about forgetting to lock the door at night, guess which dim wit forgot to lock his door last night