One press at her place sets off the loud alarm at home and sends a push notification to your phone instantly. WiFi or 4G — your call. No SIM contracts. No $51-a-month fees.
She presses, your phone alerts in seconds — at work, in the car, on the other side of the country. WiFi at her place, or 4G fallback. No call centre between you and her.
One price up front. MePACS bills $51/month for life. VitalCall, Safety Link, $40+. Senior Safe doesn't. Keep the kit forever, you'll never see another invoice.
85 dB siren at her end. Reaches the partner in the next room, the neighbour in the granny flat, anyone within earshot. Phone notification plus loud-at-home alert — both run at once.
One app for the family. One button for her. No menus, no daily charging, no monthly bill.
Three steps. Under five minutes. No installer, no cancellation hoops, no monthly invoice.
Any power point — kitchen, hallway, lounge. Green LED comes on. Scan the QR code with the Senior Safe app on your phone and connect it to her home WiFi once. Sorted.
Wristband and pendant both included — she picks whichever feels right. Battery lasts weeks. Charge once a month with the cable, that's it.
The base alarm sounds at her end — and a notification lands on every family phone added to the dashboard. Now, the second anything goes wrong, you'll know.
Independent comparison vs the three biggest monitored alarm providers in Australia.
| Senior Safe | MePACS | Safety Link | LiveLife | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | A$69 | A$385 | A$369 | A$567 |
| Monthly fee | $0 — ever | A$51/mo | A$40/mo | A$90/yr |
| First-year total | A$69 | ~A$1,000 | A$849 | A$567 |
| App notification on family phones | Yes | No | No | No |
| Multiple family members alerted | Unlimited | Routed via call centre | Routed via call centre | Routed via call centre |
| Who reaches mum first | You. Directly. | Call centre operator | Call centre operator | Call centre operator |
| Contract / lock-in | None | 12+ months | 12+ months | Annual |
| Setup | Plug in. 3 min. | Installer ($29–140) | Installer fee | Installer fee |
Pricing sourced from public provider websites, April 2026. Not all features comparable across services.
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"My mother-in-law moved into the granny flat last winter after my father-in-law passed. She's 82 and sharp as a tack but the falls were starting to be a worry. We looked at MePACS — nearly a grand in the first year. A friend told us about Senior Safe. Plugged the base into the kitchen power point, added me and my husband to the app. Two months in she had a dizzy spell at 6am and pressed it. My husband's phone went off, my phone went off (I was at the gym in Geelong), he was at her door before the kettle had boiled. Best money we've spent this year, easy."
"I work in the city, mum's an hour away in the hills. I used to ring her three times a day just to hear her voice. Last month she pressed the button at 7:30am — my phone went off in a stand-up meeting. Rang her brother (lives four streets from her), he was at her place inside five minutes. BP had dropped, she'd gone faint. Without that notification I'd have been at my desk none the wiser. The app even shows me the alert history — I can see she's tested it twice this week."
"Mum's 79, lives alone in her unit. Neighbours across the hall have a key. We added Carolyn (the neighbour) to the family alert list on the app — so when mum presses, Carolyn's phone buzzes too, not just mine in Sydney. Last month mum had a UTI, couldn't get out of bed. Pressed the button at 11pm. Carolyn was there in three minutes. I rang her, knew everything was sorted. The system works the way real communities already work — it just makes it instant."
"Bought Set B — one kit at mum's, one at the in-laws'. Set up in under five minutes each. Tested the base alarm from the front yard, you can hear it inside no problems. Wristband stays charged for weeks. The app means I get pinged regardless of which house — beats four monitoring subscriptions, that's for sure."
"I'm a community nurse in regional Victoria. Half the families I visit have one of the big monitored systems — and half the time the parent isn't wearing the pendant, it's in the drawer next to the bed. This product solves the actual problem. The wearable's light, the base is loud, and the app means the whole family knows the moment something happens — not just a call centre I've never heard of. No monthly bill, either. Started recommending it on my rounds."
"Mum's in a retirement village. The call buzzer the village provides is hopeless — half the time nobody comes. We put a Senior Safe base in her unit; the carers can hear it from the corridor and I get the app alert at home in Mornington. Way better than the in-house system. She's pressed it twice — both times someone was at her door in a couple of minutes. That's all we wanted."
Try Senior Safe at home for 30 days. If your parent won't wear it, the alerts don't suit your routine, or you change your mind — post it back. Every cent refunded.
No restocking fee, no contract to wriggle out of, no recurring billing, no call centre menu to fight through. Email us, an Australian on the team replies by the next business day.
Five questions we get every day from Australian sons and daughters before they buy.
The 85 dB base station siren still goes off — anyone in the house or next door hears it. The moment WiFi reconnects, any missed alerts queue up and send to your phone. If you've added the optional 4G SIM module (sold separately), every alert goes via mobile data and bypasses WiFi entirely.
You see it on your phone instantly. From there you can ring her to check, or tap "false alarm" in the app to clear it from the dashboard. The button needs a firm two-second press to trigger — designed to ignore pocket bumps, sleeve brushes and grandkids' curious fingers.
Watches need daily charging, run a menu-driven interface and notoriously false-alarm with normal movement — getting up from a chair, putting on a jumper, dropping a teacup. Senior Safe is one big physical button, two weeks of battery life, no menus. Built for someone who refuses tech, not someone who likes it.
Yes, unlimited. Add your siblings, your partner, your mum's neighbour, even her GP if she's keen. Everyone with the app on the alert list gets the push the second she presses the button — and the dashboard shows who acknowledged the alert, so two people don't both rush over at once.
The base station has a built-in 8-hour battery backup that kicks in automatically when mains power drops. The wristband and pendant buttons are battery-powered and unaffected. For longer outages (over 8 hours), pair with the optional 4G module — mobile networks usually stay up even when local power's down.
