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Subject: Home Alone and In Danger...

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Date Posted: 18:25:10 07/09/05 Sat

In 2000, The US Census counted 35 million people over the age of 65...of which 12 million are over 75 years young.

It is also estimated that one third of those folks over 65 (over 10 million) live alone. The New England Journal of Medicine reported that persons living alone carry a risk of 3.2% per year of being found helpless or dead.

This means that every year over 320,000 seniors suffer an actual fall at home to which emergency personal respond to and document.

Additionally, hundreds of thousands more are rescued by family, friends or neighbors - and are never reported.

Helplessness is a true medical emergency. Many times seniors who are found "down" are guilty of nothing more than being ill, weak and living alone - unable to reach a telephone. The frightening fact is that victims may not be found for many hours - or even days - later.

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