Guardian Angel
A safety wearable for seniors — designed to be worn, priced for working families, and built so help arrives even when no one can ask for it.
Get in touchWhy I built this
My father had Alzheimer's. My mother is aging, and she has started to fall. She owns a medical alert pendant. She doesn't wear it.
A familiar story
Almost every family I know is going through some version of this — the same fears, the same workarounds, the same pendant sitting in a drawer.
What's missing
The existing options haven't kept up with the problem. They were built around what's easy to detect, not what actually keeps someone safe.
Why now
I built Guardian Angel because I knew it could be done so much better — and waiting for someone else to do it didn’t seem like a plan.
A parent's worst fear
Ask any senior living alone what they're most afraid of, and the answer comes quickly: falling, lying on the floor, and not being able to reach the phone. Their children are afraid of the same thing. The existing options have asked everyone to choose between safety and dignity — bulky, clinical pendants that announce I'm old and frail every time they're worn. So they don't get worn.
Where existing options fall short
Five reasons the traditional medical alert never made it onto your parent.
Expensive
Traditional medical alert systems can cost $3,000 or more over a few years, with monthly fees that never stop.
Not worn
They look medical, feel medical, and broadcast frailty. So they sit on the dresser.
Short battery life
Daily charging is one more thing to remember.
Reliant on the wearer pressing a button
That doesn't work for someone unconscious, confused, or unable to move.
Fall detection is a guess
Accelerometer-based detection tries to recognize the moment of impact, but seniors fall in many different ways — sliding off chairs, slow slumps, faints. Motion patterns alone aren’t reliable enough when a life is on the line.
Designed to be worn
Existing pendants look medical, feel medical, and announce frailty.
A safety device that gets worn is the only kind that works — and the clinical ones don’t.
Guardian Angel is shaped like jewelry — discreet, attractive, shower-safe. Worn continuously, without anyone needing to know what it really is.
Help arrives even when no one can ask for it
Traditional alerts depend on the wearer being conscious enough to press a button.
But the moments that matter most are exactly when they can't.
Guardian Angel detects when the wearer has been on the floor too long — automatically. It works for someone unconscious, confused, or physically unable to act.
Detects the floor, not the fall
Accelerometer-based detection tries to guess whether a fall just happened.
But seniors fall in too many ways — slumps, slides, faints — for motion patterns alone to be reliable.
Guardian Angel confirms a verifiable fact — is the person on the floor? — using differential barometry between the pendant and a hub in the home.
Features
What you get with Guardian Angel.
Automatic alerts
When the wearer has been on the floor longer than expected, an alert is sent — no button press required.
Manual alerts, no buttons
Pat the pendant a couple of times — through clothing — to summon help.
Closed-loop confirmation
When an alert is answered, the wearer hears “help is on the way” — so they know they’re not alone.
Over 80 days of battery life
Charging is rare and easy.
Water resistant
Wear it in the shower. Wear it in the rain.
Real people in the loop
Alerts go to a circle of trusted contacts the wearer chooses — sons, daughters, neighbors, friends. We call them Guardian Angels.
Who it's for
Built for specific people with specific needs — and that focus is what makes it work.
Seniors who couldn’t get back up
People often living alone, on a single floor, who couldn’t get back up if they ended up on the floor. Guardian Angel is built specifically for them.
Sons and daughters who can’t always be there
People with full-time jobs, distant homes, or busy lives — who want to know help will reach their parent fast if something happens.
What it isn’t
Guardian Angel is not a medical device, is not FDA approved, and does not diagnose, treat, or monitor any medical condition. It does not replace caregivers, family, or 911 — it makes them faster and better informed. It's a quiet, reliable second pair of eyes for the moments when no one else is watching.
Want to learn more about Guardian Angel?
Get in touch — we'll tell you when it's available and how to get one for someone you love.
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