least once during the selected time period, no alarm will be sent. See “Adding/Replacing Sen- sors” on page 20 for information on setting up sensors to work with Activity Check.
If activity is not detected within the Activity Check time period the system announces “activity time warning, please press status” once a minute and the Status button will begin flashing. If the system includes X10 controlled lights they will begin turning on and off 4 times a minute. If the Status button is not pressed within 15 minutes the system will report a no activity alarm to the monitoring station.
Home and Away
If you will be away from the CareGard system, it’s necessary to temporarily shut off the Activity Check.
¾When you’re Away from home:
Press the Power/Home/Away button. The system announces “Activity Check Off”. If Medi- cation Reminders are scheduled they will be turned off as well and an additional announce- ment will be made. The Power/Home/Away button will blink when the Activity Check is off.
¾When you return Home:
Press the Power/Home/Away button. The system announces “Activity Check On”. If Medica- tion Reminders are scheduled they will be turned on as well and an additional announcement will be made.
Medication Reminders
The CareGard system can be set up to remind the user they need to take medication. Up to 8 reminders can be set.
Setting up Medication Reminders
¾To set a Medication Reminder:
1.Press the Menu button on the back of the panel until it announces “Medication Reminder, press Status to select.”
2.Press the Status button on the front of the panel. The panel announces “Medication reminder one time is off, press Power to change.”
Note
Pressing the volume button at any time when setting a medication reminder turns it off.
3.Press the Power button until you hear the correct time for the medication reminder. The time starts at 6:00 A.M. and cycles through every half hour.
4.Repeat steps
¾To turn a Medication Reminder off:
1.Repeatedly press the Menu button on the back of the panel until it announces “Medication Reminder, press Status to select.”
2.Press the Status button on the front of the panel repeatedly until you hear the Medication Reminder you need to turn off. The panel will announce the number and time of each Medi- cation Reminder.
3.After the panel has announced the Medication Reminder you want to shut off, press the vol- ume button and the panel will announce the number of the Medication Reminder and off.
Acknowledging Medication Reminders
When the medication reminder time arrives the panel will announce “Medication Reminder” once a minute and the Status button will begin flashing. If the system includes X10 controlled lights they will begin turning on and off 4 times a minute.
¾To acknowledge a Medication Reminder:
Press the status button to acknowledge the medication reminder.
If the medication reminder is not acknowledged within 15 minutes the panel will immediately report to any voice event notification or pager phone numbers programmed into the system. If Option 40 is Off the monitoring station will also be called immediately. If Option 40 is on the monitoring station will not be notified of the failure to acknowledge the medication reminder until Supervisory Time. (See “Option 32: Supervisory Time” on page 16 and “Option 40: Report Medication Failures at Supervisory Time” on page 17.)
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