"Failsafe contact" in emergencies
01/11/2006
A new Personal Emergency Database enables fast, fail-safe global access to family and next of kin in the case of an emergency via the internet or a dedicated 24 hour call centre.
Contact4Me, which launched in September, has now secured an affiliate partnership agreement with Counsel and Care, a national charity providing the best care and support for older people, their families and carers.
The new partnership agreement will help Counsel and Care support older people - and allow a donation to be paid to the charity in return for each person who registers.
Contact4Me was founded by Sue and Steven Salik in 2006, after one of their daughters was on the Kings Cross tube train which was targeted by terrorists on 7/7. She thankfully escaped but they had great concerns about how they would have been contacted had the situation been worse. But Sue also realised how vital such a service might be for older people.
Says Sue: “We want to encourage as many charities as possible to become affiliate members with Contact4Me. It’s is a simple but highly effective system and we feel that in an emergency one number is never enough and our members can rest assured that when they’re carrying a Contact4Me ID they’re never alone.”
Contact4Me works by allowing users to store up to ten telephone numbers (including doctor’s details) and any medical alerts in their very own secure personal database.
In an emergency, this information can be accessed immediately by the dedicated Contact4Me call centre, or directly via the internet, by the emergency services or an individual that comes to a member’s aid after an emergency occurrence.
Each member receives membership cards, key fob, weatherproof sticker and other useful items of identification. These all bear the member’s unique number and the Contact4Me 24 hour call centre number.
Stephen Burke, Chief Executive, Counsel and Care said: “Contact4Me allows us to extend the advice and support we offer to more vulnerable older people. Becoming an affiliate member also means we are able to generate revenue for our day-to-day activities which provide a fundamental service to older people, their families and carers.”
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