I can only speak for the experience that one of my neighbors had. She is getting on in years, a bit forgetful relative to taking her meds and now has mobility issues. Her four year old Golden was trained to bring her her daily med box three times a day which stays on the kitchen table. Nan wears an emergency button in case of a fall. The base also has a button that the dog can hit. This happened once when she fell in the kitchen, evidently lost conscienous (sp) for a period and the dog hit the base button. She sat there, waited for the response person to come on and started barking. The EMS came. While Nan was awake and alert when they arrived, they took her (and the dog ) to the ER for a check up.

If it weren't for the dog, the family was wanting her to go into a nursing home in order to keep her safe. That would have been so sad as she just needs supervision and companionship not being stuck in a semi private tiny room. Everyone is thrilled with this solution.