Abstract: A medical system for continuously monitoring geriatric-psychiatric patients in a home environment, a senior's home or in a nursing home, has a device for acquiring events at the patient such as confused states, falls, aggressivity, wandering, immobility and/or medication side effects, a device for transmitting the acquired data of the events to a system center, and a reception device at a monitoring person. The system center has a memory for the data of the acquired events and predetermined undesired events, an evaluation device for the data with a comparator for comparing the data to the stored reference values of the predetermined undesired events, an alarm device for generating an alarm signal, and a routing device for forwarding the alarm signal to a reception device of a person to be alerted in a process (response) chain.