‘I’ll be with you for the rest of my life’: Daily automated calls a lifeline for older Delaware adults who live alone

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A 99-year-old woman who lives alone near Wilmington fell and injured herself one morning and could not get up to call 911.

A few hours later, a software program based at New Castle County police headquarters made an automated call to the woman’s home. She didn’t answer that call or follow-up calls by a volunteer who monitors the messages…

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