Senior persons admittedly are more prone to different physical and mental ailments, but youth does not necessarily ensure against disease, especially in case of those young persons who are weak or sickly, physically challenged, or susceptible to diseases like heart attacks, strokes, epileptic fits or fainting, allergies, memory impairment, pulmonary conditions, asthma, COPD, hearing or vision problems or similar medical emergencies.

Their family members or caretakers have to go out for work, leaving them alone at home. Also, these sick persons too may have to work due to financial constraints. In some cases, particularly with old people, the spouse may have died and the children are far away. Then there are millions of persons living alone who are prone to medical emergencies. Problem may occur at night, when nobody is around. Even healthy persons, with their hectic lifestyles in work-to-meet-the-deadline environments, are vulnerable to various types of heart and brain diseases, accidents and food poisoning.

Medical Alerts, in such situations, can be of great help in summoning timely medical aid, though carrying or wearing these alerts does publicly advertise the sickness of the person. They identify the medical problems of the wearers. Unfortunately, this medical identification, though of critical importance for the patients, creates complexes in the minds of image-conscious wearers and hurt their sensibilities.

To overcome this problem, the designers of medical jewelry have come up with solutions in form of acceptable fashionable accessories, like pendants and bracelets, which are easy to use. They try to arrive at a compromise between the necessity of communicating the disease to medical experts and the ostensible awkwardness of wearing the alerts.

These Medical Alerts are in fact electronic gadgets fitted with transmitter buttons, embedded in the pendants, that send SOS signals to the monitoring agencies who in turn alert the friends and family members of the patients and, more importantly, their doctors. The signals are sent either by telephone or radio frequencies. Depending upon the nature of disease, various Medical Alerts are available in the market and their use can avert tragedy.