TECHNOLOGY
Life-Changing Foresight
Stephen Cavanagh, Long-term Care Expert for Ascom, discusses the increasingly important role of data analytics across residential care.
Imagine if we could predict a resident fall before it happened. Given research suggests that care home residents are three times more likely to fall than older people living within the community, having this kind of foresight isn’t just convenient. It’s a game changer. One that could very realistically save lives.
At the very least it could significantly reduce resident hospitalisations, prevent ‘fall fear’ and help cut the £4.6m per day spent by the NHS treating fall related injuries for the over 65s.
Until recently, practically all fall prevention strategies across social care relied heavily, if not entirely, on human intervention.
Care home staff are highly skilled and trained in monitoring residents. In being vigilant for the tell-tale signs that indicate a fall is likely - from paying closer attention to a resident who
has suddenly become unsteady on his or her feet, to changes in posture and movement. But, relying entirely on carers, even before they became ever more stretched following the pandemic, was always an incredibly risky strategy.
Now, however, fall prevention strategies can include a powerful asset for preventative, proactive care. Data analytics.
Smart monitoring technology is transforming the delivery of resident care. It’s also transforming how care homes operate, how staff work, and how new homes are being designed and built.
It’s providing carers with additional eyes and ears on residents, delivering a welcome extra layer of protection without impeding privacy.
“Fall prevention
strategies can now include a powerful
asset for preventative, proactive care. Data analytics.”
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