If you are single and live alone and one day you get seriously ill and can't move, what do you do?
Who would you go to?
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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 times). Both can also text your emergency contacts your location.
- Fill in Medical ID / Emergency information on your phone (meds, allergies, conditions, contacts). Responders can read it from the lock screen.
- Your health insurer or public health system usually has a 24/7 nurse line. Save the number now; they'll tell you whether it's ER, urgent care or wait.
- Give a spare key to one neighbor or nearby friend, so nobody has to break the door.
- One daily check-in buddy: a "you good?" text by a set time, and if you don't answer, they call, then come over.
- Keep a few days of water, easy food and basic meds within reach, and have a grocery/pharmacy delivery app already set up.
Family and friends are the answer, but a plan means you only need one of them to pick up.
- 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 times). Both can also text your emergency contacts your location.
- Fill in Medical ID / Emergency information on your phone (meds, allergies, conditions, contacts). Responders can read it from the lock screen.
- Your health insurer or public health system usually has a 24/7 nurse line. Save the number now; they'll tell you whether it's ER, urgent care or wait.
- Give a spare key to one neighbor or nearby friend, so nobody has to break the door.
- One daily check-in buddy: a "you good?" text by a set time, and if you don't answer, they call, then come over.
- Keep a few days of water, easy food and basic meds within reach, and have a grocery/pharmacy delivery app already set up.
Family and friends are the answer, but a plan means you only need one of them to pick up.
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