Wiring Accessories
The assisted living market is estimated to be worth £10.1 billion – a figure that not only demonstrates the size of the problem, but also the potential for the electrical contracting and wholesaling industry to work towards designing, supplying and installing products which will facilitate the continued independence of the growing aged population.
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can be notified to check the house in person. Taking away the worry and fear that often comes with living alone is paramount. By being able to remotely alert an elderly person that the sound that they are about to hear is their carer coming to visit, provides much needed reassurance. A smart home does not require a complete home refurbishment project and it does not need to cost tens of thousands of pounds. With new products that are suitable for retrofitting and affordable solutions now on the market, smart home technology has become more accessible and within the reach of average consumers.
Wireless control
The ability to easily adapt and update a home is being made more achievable due to the wireless control and automation products available. These enable the upgrade of an electrical installation to provide added security, energy saving, comfort and control for those in need of assisted living, without the need for intrusive and unwanted disturbance. Retrofit and affordable products can be installed to transform any building to provide numerous benefits to suit all manner of requirements and will have particular value for the assisted living sector. For example a bedtime route can be created that turns all lights on and off to allow the occupier to get to bed without the need to switch lights on or off, or the use of a bell push to switch a light on for the hard of hearing. Because of the flexibility of this type of system, it will be easy to change an installation to meet the changing requirements of the occupier.
Solutions can be tailored to facilitate activities of daily living in a safe, controlled manner whilst allowing those needing care to remain
wide rockers and sockets that have wider gaps between rockers, as well as outboard rockers, are all designed to facilitate the use of products for those with impaired vision.
Improvements
independent for longer, and thus decreasing the need for formal and informal care in the home. Smart home technology can be the ideal solution for individuals with different needs and abilities as the technology can provide an environment that is constantly monitored to ensure a person is safe. It can automate specific tasks a person may be unable to perform, such as switching lights on or off, guard against unauthorised access, or warn users they may have left the front door open. Using technology to isolate an appliance such as a cooker or a fire, for example, will help safeguard the person from danger in their own home.
Reassurance
Keeping people safe and comfortable within their homes with task automation, motion detectors and light dimming sensors could prove crucial in giving assisted living care providers added reassurance. The ability to provide a person in a wheelchair with access to a variety of controls via a remote control attached to the wheelchair, has obvious benefits. It isn’t just high-tech solutions that are working their way through and providing much needed help for this sector. Manufacturers are looking at ways to improve some of the simplest products that have been around for years and seen little development. Switches which feature
At Scolmore we believe that our most recent innovation is the perfect example of looking at everyday activities and product uses and coming up with improvements. The new Mode Locating Plug Socket – developed with the assisted living sector in mind – is designed to assist people with impaired vision or poor hand to eye coordination to more easily insert a plug into a socket.
The contoured shape of the front plate guides the earth pin into position, and it is this plug guide which gives the product a greater focus on usability and means its use can be extended to situations where a socket isn’t easily accessible.
The product is available in one and two-gang options, with the two-gang version featuring outboard rockers to further assist with distinguishing between switches, making it less likely to switch the wrong one.
The Locating Plug Socket is part of the Mode range of wiring accessory products, which all feature anti-microbial properties and come with a 20-year guarantee. It is an ideal solution for assisted living installations and also meets with the requirements of Part M compliance. With dementia identified as the one of the main causes of disability in later life and expected to double globally by 2030 and triple by 2050, the assisted living sector is one that will continue to grow and all those involved in the design, manufacture and supply of solutions will continue to have a part to play in easing the burden.
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Mode Wide Rockers – the range has anti-microbial properties. 30 | electrical wholesalerSeptember 2015
Mode Locating Socket – developed with the assisted living sector in mind.
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