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24 Sep: New Lively Flip Keeps Older Adults Connected

Best Buy Health today unveiled Lively Flip, a new, easy-to-use flip phone that’s designed to help older adults stay connected to family, friends and the health services they need.

The Lively Flip will be available in stores and online at Best Buy and Rite Aid later this month and at Walgreens in late October. It can also be purchased at GreatCall.com and through direct sales toll-free numbers.  

The Lively Flip is the next evolution of the Jitterbug, designed to help older adults live their best possible lives. Voice services with Amazon Alexa are a new, enhanced feature that gives users the option to use their voice to make calls, write texts, check the weather and more. Users

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17 Aug: GreatCall Employee Hailed As Hero After Saving Neighbors From Fire

Kevin Arlinghaus was at home watching television when he smelled smoke.

“It didn’t smell like a barbecue. It smelled like burning plastic,” he said.

Kevin — who works for Best Buy subsidiary GreatCall — went outside to investigate and soon discovered a fire in a nearby garage at his townhome community in Carlsbad, California. Within minutes, the garage was fully engulfed in flames.

Kevin is now being hailed as a hero after calling 911 and helping save a 93-year-old woman and her adult grandson.

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10 Apr: Social Distancing Versus Social Isolation

Long before news of the coronavirus emerged in late 2019, researchers have been studying the effects of isolation on older people.

Now, as the world responds with unprecedented speed to the threat of COVID-19, the urgency of helping everybody stay in touch is an urgent priority – especially for vulnerable seniors and the newly telecommuting, homeschooling, stressed sandwich generation, who coordinates their care (now from a distance).

Physical social distancing is a critical precaution to “flatten the curve.”