Mobile telephone management system and method

A method for one or more caregivers to manage over a network the operation of a user's cellular phone of the type having a processor, a non-volatile memory, a volatile memory, a user interface, a display, and an orientation module, the method comprising the steps:

• connecting a server with the network that includes at least a processor, a non-volatile memory, a database module, and a communications module;
• connecting one or more caregiver terminals with the network and adapting the one or more caregiver terminals to communicate with the server over the network;
• communicating an application resident in the non-volatile memory of the user's cellular phone with the server over the network and managing the user interface and display of the user's cellular phone;
• detecting, via the orientation module of the user's cellular phone, emergency events;
• maintaining, via the one or more caregivers, at least one authorized phone list, wherein the at least one authorized phone list includes an entity name and an associated phone number;
• limiting, via the application resident on the user's cellular phone, the phone numbers that can be dialed by the user's cellular phone to only those on the at least one authorized phone number list;
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• limiting, via the application resident on the user's cellular phone, the phone numbers that can be answered by the user's cellular phone to only those on the at least one authorized phone number list.