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For independent-living and life-plan communitiesEdited by William Kohn · Aventura, Florida

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Tech Tip · iPhone and Android

Put your medical facts on your lock screen

If you're hurt and can't speak, first responders can read your medicines, allergies and emergency contacts from your locked phone. How to set it up on an iPhone or an Android phone, plus Emergency SOS.

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Edited by William Kohn, who lives in a life-plan community himself.

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