FLOORING
A SMART STEP TOWARDS BETTER CARE
An interview with Palle Stevn, COO at MariCare, sheds light on his company’s
Smart Floor systems, a burgeoning healthcare technology that brings invaluable support for nurses in care homes.
The utilisation of smart technologies in elderly care is quickly garnering wide-scale recognition. Innovative solutions are becoming more readily available and affordable, assisting nurses and care staff to provide an even greater level of care as patients and residents enter the final chapter of their lives.
MariCare is a Finnish manufacturer of one of these technologies: ‘Smart Floors’. The Smart Floor system – carefully designed in conjunction with professional nurses – works
“IT IS THE DETECTION OF UNUSUAL CHANGES IN
BEHAVIOUR THAT ARE ONE OF THE SMART FLOOR’S GREATEST STRENGTHS.”
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through sensors that record how patients and residents in care homes, hospitals and rehabilitation centres move around the facilities day-to-day.
The sensors have multiple uses, from detecting when a patient has fallen over, to when they get out of bed and walk to the bathroom. All of these prompts are then communicated wirelessly to the nurses’ computers or smart devices, allowing them to monitor patients and act as and when required.
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