How-To Guides
Step-by-step guides for safety and caregiving — 22 free guides.
Managing Parent Medications Remotely
A complete guide to helping your elderly parent manage medications when you live far away. Covers pill organizers, medication tracking apps, pharmacy coordination, and daily check-in routines.
Read Guide →Choosing a Medical Alert System
How to evaluate and choose the right medical alert system for an elderly parent or someone living alone. Covers types, features, costs, and alternatives.
Read Guide →Having the Safety Conversation with Your Parent
How to have a productive, respectful conversation with an aging parent about safety concerns, living alone, and accepting help. Scripts and strategies included.
Read Guide →Meal Planning for Seniors Living Alone
Practical strategies for seniors who live alone to eat well, stay nourished, and enjoy meals. Covers simple recipes, meal delivery, grocery services, and nutrition tips.
Read Guide →Staying Active When Living Alone
How to maintain an exercise routine and stay physically active when you live alone. Covers safe exercises, motivation strategies, and accountability tools for solo seniors.
Read Guide →Holiday Safety for Seniors Living Alone
How to keep elderly parents and seniors safe during holidays when they live alone. Covers fire safety, weather hazards, emotional well-being, and staying connected.
Read Guide →Transitioning to Living Alone
A practical guide for seniors and adults transitioning to living alone after the loss of a spouse, divorce, or children leaving home. Covers safety, routines, and emotional adjustment.
Read Guide →Building a Support Network When Living Solo
How to build a reliable support network when you live alone. Covers neighbors, friends, professionals, technology, and community resources for solo adults and seniors.
Read Guide →Setting Up an Elderly Parent's Smartphone
Step-by-step guide to setting up a smartphone for an elderly parent. Covers choosing a phone, simplifying the interface, installing safety apps, and providing ongoing support.
Read Guide →Power of Attorney for an Elderly Parent
A practical guide to understanding, obtaining, and using power of attorney for an elderly parent. Covers types of POA, the legal process, family conversations, and common pitfalls.
Read Guide →First Aid for Digital Nomads
A preparedness guide for people who work while travelling alone: what belongs in a compact kit, what training to do before you go, how travel insurance and local clinics actually differ, and how to make sure someone knows where you are.
Read Guide →Crisis Management for Digital Nomads
Embassy registration, a documents-and-money fallback, a communications plan, and an agreed answer to who checks on you and when — the parts of nomad crisis planning that have to exist before the crisis.
Read Guide →How to Add a Check-In Widget to Your Home Screen (iPhone & Android)
A step-by-step guide to how to add the I'm Alive check-in widget to your iPhone or Android home screen, plus the lock-screen and contact widgets, and what actually happens when you tap it.
Read Guide →How to Check On an Elderly Parent Remotely
A step-by-step guide for adult children who want to check on an elderly parent from a distance. Covers scheduled calls, video, smart-home signals, and a daily check-in app that notifies you when a daily check-in is missed so you can follow up.
Read Guide →What Is a Dead Man's Switch?
A plain-English explanation of what a dead man's switch is, where the idea came from, and how a daily check-in app turns the same concept into a simple safety net for people who live alone.
Read Guide →Dead Man's Switch vs Panic Button
The difference between a dead man's switch and a panic button, when each one helps, and why the two safety models cover opposite kinds of emergency for people living alone.
Read Guide →Dead Man's Switch vs Medical Alert
How a dead man's switch (daily check-in) compares with a traditional medical alert system — cost, coverage, hardware and who each one really suits for independent living.
Read Guide →How to Check On an Aging Parent Without Calling
Practical ways to know an aging parent is okay each day without daily phone calls — from shared routines and gentle tech to a one-tap daily check-in that alerts you if they go quiet.
Read Guide →Medical Alert Without a Wearable
You do not have to wear a pendant to have a safety net. Here is how a daily check-in app delivers medical-alert-style reassurance with no wearable, no base station and no monthly monitoring fee.
Read Guide →Aging Alone Without Family Nearby
A practical guide to aging alone when family lives far away — building a safety net, staying connected, and making sure someone notices if you go quiet, without giving up your independence.
Read Guide →How Much Does Life Alert Cost?
A grounded 2026 breakdown of what Life Alert really costs — monthly fees, activation, the three-year contract and the five-year total — plus how it compares with other medical alerts and free daily check-in apps.
Read Guide →How Much Does a Daily Check-In App Cost?
What daily check-in apps actually cost in 2026 — from free tiers to monthly and yearly plans — with a plain breakdown of I'm Alive's pricing and what you get free versus paid.
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