PERS Failure

If you read it, the man was found by his wife on the floor, dead. It does not say how much time passed between his being seen as "fine" and then; if there were signs of struggle; quite conceivably he could have had a massive stroke or coronary and was dead in a minute. No PERS would have helped. It looks to me as if the courts will decide liability on this.

When I was with my previous company (Living Independently) we had estimates that PERS buttons failed to work about 1/3 of the time. However we based this on failure to press the alert (e.g. the senior was not wearing the button in bed, the shower etc. or was not near the box), fell down unconscious, or was too stunned or incapable of pushing the button when down, not actual malfunction.