Safety & Falls

About these articles

Silvie is a radar sensor mounted high in a room corner in a parent's home, powered from a wall outlet. It is designed to send fall alerts to the family's phones through the Silvie app. It has no camera and no microphone, and there is nothing to wear. These articles cover the safety side: what makes falls likely, what to do after one, and what helps when nobody is in the room.

Articles

• More than a fall alarm. A fall alert matters. On most days, families want to know their parent is up and moving.
• Fall detection without a camera. Radar fall detection works without cameras or wearables. How it works, what camera-free does and does not mean, and its limits.
• The first fall: what to do next. What to do, step by step, after a parent falls or nearly falls. And how to know if it happens again.
• Keeping an aging parent safe at home. Cheap, simple changes, room by room, that lower a parent's fall risk at home.
• When a parent lives alone overnight. What helps when your parent is alone at night.

What Silvie does and does not do

When Silvie detects a fall, the alert arrives as a push notification in the Silvie app. Silvie does not call 911, does not place phone calls and has no monitoring center, so the people you invite decide what happens next.

Next step

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