Safety and Protection

Personal Alarms

You can apply to your local Community Group for a Personal Alarm. You do not pay to have the alarm installed if you qualify but you will have to pay the monitoring fee each year.

If you are a community group you can apply to the Department of Community Equality & Gaeltacht Affairs to receive funding to administer this scheme.

The full address for the Government Department is Department of Community Equality & Gaeltacht Affairs, Tubbercurry, Sligo, Co. Sligo.

Contact your local Community Liaison Garda or your local Garda Station for further information. The local Office is:

For more information on personal alarms contact:

St. Vincent de Paul
Dundalk
Tel: 042 9339056

Seniors Alert – Grant Levels
Grant levels (incl. Installation) Max GrantMonitored Personal Alarm (w pendant) €250
Monitored Smoke Detector (per unit) €75
Monitored Carbon Monoxide Detector (per unit) €100
Additional Pendant/Reinstallation €50
External Security Lights €120
Internal Emergency Lighting €50

The following are the local groups you can contact to acquire a personal alarm

Ait na Daoine, Carlingford Community Alert, Community Alert, Cooley Community Alert, Clogherhead & Callystown Leisure Group, Drogheda Community Services, Drogheda Senior Citizen Interest Group, Dundalk Active Retirement Group, Dundalk Social Services Council, Dunleer Neighbourhood Watch, Glenmore Castletowncooley Comm Alert, Haggardstown & Dublin Road Comm. Alert, Kilkerley Comm Alert, Kilsaran Castlebellingham Comm Alert, Knockbridge Community Alert, Monasterboice Community Alert, Omeath District Development, Ravensdale & District Community Alert, Seatown Neighbourhood Watch Committee, Sliabh Breagh Mullameelan NeighbourWatch, Smarmore & District Community Alert, Togher Community Project Group, Womens Lifestyle Devt Group Ltd, SVDP Blackrock, SVDP Dundalk Jocelyn Street St Ronan's Conference, SVDP Dundalk Jocelyn Street St Ronan's Conference , SVDP Tallanstown.

Telecare and Telehealth

How does it work?

• Living Independently At Home
• Calls received at 24 hour monitoring centre within seconds
• Your Contacts – Friends, Neighbours, Relatives, Carers, Emergency Services

 
How Can I Get It?

 You can get TeleCare in 2 ways

 Through the Statutory Grant

 Or

 Private Purchase

 The Grant – Seniors Alert Scheme

You need to get this through a registered community group in your area. The grant will cover the following items:

Monitored Personal Alarm (Basic TeleCare)               €250

Monitored Smoke Detector (per unit)                      €75

Monitored Carbon Monoxide Detector (per unit)        €100

Additional Pendant/Reinstallation                             €50

External Security Lights                                        €120

Internal Emergency Lighting                                    €50

List of Registered Groups in Co. Louth

This is the list of groups currently registered with the Department and listed on their website. You can contact the Department on 071-9107818.

Private Purchase

TeleCare is very cost effectively priced. Most Companies do a rental option as well as outright purchase. There are a range of additional sensors that you can purchase that will allow you to manage risks in the home including:

•   Monitored Fall Detector
•   Bogus Caller Button
•   Epilepsy Sensor
•   Medication Reminder
•   Heat Extremes Sensor
•   Flood Detector
•   Wandering Alert

List of Service Providers