Lunderg Early Alert Bed Alarm System

This alarm has helped us tremendously. If we didn’t have that my father in law would have fallen so many times. I have it set to one side since his bed is against the wall we only have to worry about him getting out on one side. OMG! He has dementia & keeps trying to get up. The problem is he is 94 years old withdementia, but more agile than I am until he actually stands on his legs. His legs are weak & give out when he stands on them. The thing is he can hold them up together in the air as long as he wants while you get him dressed. I can’t do leg lifts like that. So getting up isn’t his problem, but once he’s up those same legs can’t hold him up. The alarm goes off, we immediately look at the camera & there he is getting up. It gives us enough time to dash downstairs to stop him. I don’t know what we’d do without it. I bought it in anticipation of him moving in with us because he was getting out of bed both in the hospital & at rehab. Great product, easy to install, works just as advertised. It has more than one setting. I have it so he can turn & reposition himself without setting off the alarm, but the moment he sits up & tries to get out of bed it goes off. Oh & its loud, you don’t have to worry that you will sleep through it. Not only is it loud it vibrates on my nightstand.Update: We love this device so much we bought the matching chair alarm. You pair it to the same alarm box. We have noted that occasionally (twice since mid February) it will become unpaired. It’s easy to pair it back to the device in 5-10 seconds. You just have to be careful because if you don’t notice & it becomes unpaired it’s useless, it won’t alarm & alert you. I’m convinced my father in law would have fallen & hurt himself by now if it weren’t for the alarm. We have a baby monitor with a couple of cameras watching him so if the alarm goes off we can see what he’s doing & actually talk to him to see why is he trying to get up. This has allowed us to safely sleep at night.

This device allows me to relax at night now that my elderly mother lives with us. It alerts me when she gets up in the middle of the night and also allows me to go outside and work in the flower beds at her naptimes. The range has been adequate for me to be as far as my neighbor's porch. I've not tested it beyond that . Installation is relatively easy (if you follow the directions in order.) This order was for a replacement for a pad we purchased in early 2014. It lasted about 18 months. The warranty pretty much warns you about this. I would be interested in learning if anyone's lasts longer.

After trying and returning several bed alarms. I found this unit to be the very best, but I would occasionally get false alarms. To stop the false alarms I opened the battery pouch on bed alarm pad. There is a small black wire that acts as the antenna to send the signal to handheld unit. Remove the wire and let it hang down outside the pouch and that should stop the false alarm. If you still get false alarms, strip the end of the antenna wire and splice in and add about 12 inches of a similar gauge wire. Leave the wire hanging outside of the pouch. close pouch back up and let wire hang down or tuck into the bed sheet. I leave mine hanging freely below the mattress. NO MORE false alarms! Also, make sure patient is not on edge of pad. Center patient on middle of the bed pad.

Works well, nor perfect. Good for dementia folks.

We bought this bed pad alarm for our mother with Alzheimer’s to alert us at night if she got out of the bed. It has been the best purchase we made. The peace of mind that allows us to sleep at night has been a God send. At night she would get up to go to the bathroom and the alarm now wakes us up to alert us that she has her feet on the ground and is getting up. Along with Hello Baby monitors in her room we can see everything she is doing without always interacting with her. The three setting of loud, low, or just buzzing gives us flexibility on what we want for alerts. Installation was quick and easy. We only use it on her bed and would highly recommend this product. As caregivers, this lets us sleep. We have been using it for 8 months now and the pad has worked as designed.