Founder and CEO, Jean Anne Booth, writes in BizWomen about the inspiration behind the Kanega Watch.
“The personal medical alert device industry has a long and successful history of saving lives and allowing people to remain active and independent much longer, protecting them from falls and other unexpected mishaps.
Yet only 6% of people 65+ in the US have one of these devices and fewer than half of those wear it regularly.
My aging mom was one of the 94%. She hated the idea of wearing a medical alert pendant— so bulky, so stigmatizing. “I’m not that old, and I certainly don’t want others to think so,” she said as she approached her 80th birthday. Yet she lived alone and had started to experience more unsteadiness when she walked. I knew I had to do something.”
…read the rest of the article on BizWomen.
UnaliWear’s patented RealFall™ technology is based on actual fall data from Kanega Watch wearers and gets smarter about each wearer’s personal movements over time— continuously improving fall detection accuracy and limiting/eliminating false alerts. No other medical alert system offers this real fall/related movement learning and continuous improvement technology. Click here to learn more.
