Lifeline manufactures personal emergency response equipment that patients at home can wear and use in an emergency to get help.
Most Lifeline subscribers are older people who live alone.
People of all ages with disabilities or chronic illnesses also use Lifeline Systems. Lifeline Systems are sold to about 2000 distributors nationwide including hospitals, home health care companies, and private physicians. The distributors lease the service to patients. Some distributors respond to the calls themselves. Others use Lifeline's call center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.