Life Alert (1987) by Life Alert Emergency Response

Record 012 · Sensing · 1987

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Life Alert

Life Alert Emergency Response

“The commercial that made a help button part of American folklore.”

Life Alert did not invent PERS, but it made the category unforgettable. The line still teaches families what the pendant is for.

Cultural lock-in for at-home emergency response.

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  • National PERS brand
  • Owned monitoring
  • Mass-media category education

I've fallen and I can't get up.