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I’d go to my family first but not everyone has that luxury

Worth setting up before you need it, because the hard part is that you can't move when it happens: - Emergency number first (911 in the US/Canada, 112 across the EU). On iPhone, holding the side button and a volume button brings up Emergency SOS; Android has Emergency SOS in Settings (press power 5...

The best answer is a plan made while you're still well. Pick one person who checks on you on a rhythm, even a simple morning text where two missed days means they come over, and give them a key. Set your phone's emergency info (allergies, medications, contacts) so it shows on the lock screen, and le...

The replies here are logistics, and they're right. The thing that actually stops people is smaller: asking feels like taking on a debt, so you wait until you're too sick to ask. Pick the person you'd least want to owe. Say it out loud while you're well: two missed days, you come over. If you can't ...

A watch with fall detection covers exactly this case. On Apple Watch, a detected hard fall followed by no response and about a minute of no movement triggers an automatic call to emergency services and messages your emergency contacts with your location. You never have to press anything, which is th...