Safety Tips

Phone tips for seniors:

• Start a buddy system. You and a friend or relative can set a special time when you call each other every day. It's an easy way to keep track of each other.
• People who live alone, especially women, can list only first and middle initials in the telephone directory to avoid calls from people making harassing calls.
• Use answering machines to keep potential burglars guessing about who's home and who's not.
• Women living alone may ask a male friend or relative to make the recording using your telephone number only or use prerecorded message.
• Hang up if a telemarketer calls before 8 A.M. or after 9 P.M. If you tell the seller not to call back and he does, hang up. That's against the law!

When you're out:

• Make sure someone knows where you're going and when you expect to return.
• Carry a cell phone, and change for an emergency telephone and transportation use.- Carry a shriek alarm or mace.
• Park as close to the entrance as possible.
• Try not to walk out alone at night. Even ask for security to walk with you.
• Never resist a robber. Your possessions can be replaced.
• When using a bus or other public transportation, sit as near the driver aspossible.
• Leave lights on if you're away set on timers.
• Stop your mail and newspaper if away for several days.

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