Two items from STV Scotland, one day apart, draw quite a contrast between the care of someone in a ‘care home’ where standards were poor and the alarm (whatever it was) was switched off at a crucial time and someone… Read moreCare at home with telecare v care home care without (Scotland)
Launched today in the UK, SeNCit is a device with functions – and at a price point – that give it the potential to disrupt the pendant-oriented telecare market. It looks like a fairly standard PIR unit but its outer… Read moreSeNCit set to disrupt the telecare device market?
Three Scottish items indicate the way that telecare has become an accepted part of service configuration for saving resources in these tight times – and the way that the local media can assume that readers know what it is. GPS… Read moreScotland continues to embed telecare into services and media consciousness
A University of Miami Center on Aging initiative is piloting what they call ‘A Computer Integrated Telephone System for Family Caregivers of Dementia Patients’ and targeting their local African-American, Haitian-American and Hispanic communities. It will be assessed on the effectiveness of… Read moreVideophone support for family caregivers of dementia patients (US)
These days UK councils are being urged (and forced by financial constraints) to slim down and withdraw from providing services themselves. So what to do if you have a burning desire and the funding to introduce a new service, such… Read moreThe council, the charity and the dementia service (UK)
The New York Times’ New Year’s Day entry in their ‘Smarter Than You Think’ series covers the gamut: facial and behavioral recognition software that can predict actions from prison riots, to terrorism, to dementia; DARPA’s drone soldier scouts; ‘smart rooms’ which… Read moreComputers that watch…and see more than you think?
A reader has asked if anyone knows of a ‘decision tree’ that would help staff suggest appropriate telecare, telehealth or other equipment for people at different stages of dementia and in different settings. I’m sure many people are walking around… Read moreTelecare and dementia: Reader's request
The development of telecare services in the UK has, more often than not, been done on the basis of slim evidence from local trials or ‘on trust’ that spending a little you can save more. However, the just released report… Read moreNew evidence to support telecare business cases
Why a post featuring two press releases from Coast and Country HomeCall, a relatively small UK telecare provider? As regular readers know, I frequently complain about mind-numbing, jargon-laden, press releases full of company puffery so it is a pleasant change… Read moreCoast and Country HomeCall (UK)
A TSA press release today highlights that Health Minister for Care Services Paul Burstow made a strong public acknowledgement of the potential role for telecare at the recent Liberal Democrat conference. He is reported as saying that it will be… Read moreUK Health Minister Paul Burstow flags up telecare
