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Personal Emergency Response System

 

Pers Unit
Standard Unit

 

"Age in Place" with confidence and remain independent in your own comfortable familiar surroundings longer!  Receive the help you may need through Doyle Medical Monitoring Personal Emergency Response Systems.  Call the Office for the Aging at 607-274-5482 for more information.


How does PERS work?

  • Push your pendant or wrist button and be automatically connected to Doyle Medical Monitoring's Response Center.  The highly trained operators can talk to you through the unit speaker to help determine what kind of assistance you need.

Benefits to Tompkins County Office for the Aging's partnership with Doyle include:

  • Peace of mind
  • Quick response at the push of a button
  • No installation fee
  • No fee for service calls
  • No minimum contract
  • Cutting edge, UL rated technology 

The consoles require the use of a telephone line and is powered through an electrical outlet and has an internal back-up battery in case of a power failure. 


Standard unit is $25/month. Fall Detection unit is $30/month. GPS Units are also available for $45/month with a one time $40 activation fee.      

Our Outreach staff are available to answer your questions about the Personal Emergency Response Systems and can guide you in choosing the most suitable device to meet your needs.