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Entrepreneurial couple launch video post cards for care home residents
ConnectedCare, created specifi- cally to meet the needs of the care sector, gives relatives a window into the lives of their loved ones in care and provides residents with regular heart-warming photo postcards and video greeting cards from family. Connected Care does not replace the experience of face-to-face visits, but it does ease the guilt, worry and helplessness felt by so many with ageing relatives that they struggle to regularly visit. It comforts residents enabling them to see their families, relive memories and keep up to date via photos and videos until they can see them in person without being overwhelmed by technology. A win-win for everyone, the service features:
• No overwhelming technology • No equipment investment • No need for increased network or digital storage capability
• More secure and private other tech solutions
• No steep learning curves for care home staff
The service avoid ‘live’ Zoom tech is- sues. Photos and videos are captured by the carers of residents when they want to and feel up to or during activ- ities, rather than a pre-arranged video call that may not show them feeling well or happy. It alleviates communi- cation pressures on care home staff and is entirely managed service by the SayIt team for both staff and rel- atives. Principle advantages of the service are:
• Regular photo postcards to keep residents or elderly relatives up to date with family life
• Video greeting cards filled with mes- sages of love, memories and stories from family and friends. The card fea- tures a bright, full-colour screen with excellent sound quality which au- to-plays on opening the card. 2 hours
of battery time which is rechargeable and up to 1 hours of recorded video. • Relatives use the SayIt platform (
app.say-it.co) to collaborate with fam- ily and friends via a single, secure web link to collect photos, messages and videos. SayIt then works their magic to reformat all the content and send di- rectly to the recipient in regular photo postcards and a video card.
Testimonials
• Cloud-based, secure digital home for all resident information, communica- tions, photos and videos that relatives can view at any time night or day. Founder Kate Johnson says: “We’ve had a lot of great feedback from care home workers and relatives that wel- come the video greeting card as an important and much needed service.”
Helen used SayIt for her mother-in- law’s 90th birthday: “We used a SayIt video card to sur- prise my mother-in-law on her 90th birthday. She absolutely loved watch- ing the videos! It really made her birth- day extra special, seeing and listening to messages from friends and family around the country and abroad! She said it was better than having a party! She has watched them over and over. It is wonderful because we have nev- er even been able to get her to use a mobile phone, but she is successfully using the video card! I would definite- ly use SayIt again. The support team
were extremely helpful answering any questions I had. I would recommend SayIt to anyone looking for an alterna- tive way to celebrating an event or just to brighten up someone’s day! Juliette can’t see her 80-year-old mother this Christmas: “We used SayIt to send over 100 pho- tos and videos to my mum so she can enjoy some treasured memories when- ever she wants to until we can next see her. The products are excellent quality and the system is easy to use, even for me! I definitely recommend their service to anyone with an aging family, my mum loves it too.”
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