Elder Apps

Use the SOS button

Follow the configured SOS calling process when help is needed.

Important: Elder Dialler SOS makes ordinary phone calls to the contacts chosen during setup. It does not automatically contact emergency services and cannot guarantee that someone will answer.

Manual SOS calling

Start the SOS contact sequence

  1. Press and hold the SOS button. A quick tap only shows a reminder to hold the button.
  2. Check the first contact's name.
  3. Use the on-screen confirmation to start the call. Cancel if you do not want to continue.
  4. After a call, choose CALL NEXT to try the next configured contact.
  5. Choose STOP when you do not want to call another contact.
Elder Dialler reminder explaining that the SOS button must be pressed and held.
A quick tap shows a reminder. It does not start a call.
Elder Dialler confirmation for the first fictitious SOS contact before the call sequence begins.
Check the contact before starting the SOS call.
Manual Elder Dialler SOS screen showing a fictitious contact with CALL NEXT and STOP controls.
After a call, CALL NEXT continues to the next contact and STOP ends the sequence.

No contacts appear? Ask the family member or carer who set up the phone to check the SOS contacts.

These instructions describe the manual SOS controls shown in Elder Dialler 1.0.7 - Aurora Septima-beta.

Disclaimer: All names, contact details, and images displayed on this website and shown within the Elder Dialler application are entirely fictitious and are used for demonstration and illustrative purposes only. Any resemblance to real persons, living or deceased, is purely coincidental. No content is intended to represent, simulate, or replicate any actual individual.