Hospitality, Sociosanitario, IoT Solutions, Smart Buildings
The strong aging of the population has brought about a need to seek new methods to ensure long-term care services for older adults.
This is a quest for comprehensive and intelligent solutions with the intention of improving the quality of life of residents and their families, facilitating day-to-day work of care professionals, and maintaining the viability of this kind of centers and care provision in general.
The aim of residential telecare is to transform homes for older and disabled people into intelligent homes.
Residential telecare is aligned with the new care system for older people. Technology appears, then, as one of the main pillars for this kind of care.
This new care model has to meet the needs of every user, regardless of the place they live – nursing-home facilities or their own house. The goal here is to focus on the quality of life of the user before they develop chronic disorders or show the first symptoms of cognitive decline, and this requires moving beyond the reactive model in order to consolidate a proactive one.
Residential telecare services have proven to be very useful, especially in the key objectives for the care of older adults: the “5 Ps model” – which stand for: personalized and adapted to the characteristics and wishes of the person who is being cared for; participative, because they take the caregivers’ opinion into account; proactive, so risky situations can be detected early on; predictive, through intelligent management of data brought by technology and care monitoring; and population, to reach any spot across the community and to get adapted to the geographical configuration of any place.
New technologies – even within the Healthcare industry – enable the monitoring of different health parameters. When it comes to older adults, not only are these developments focused on security factors, but also on comfort, health and functionality. By using sensors and the appropriate devices, any abnormal situation can be detected so that immediate measures can be taken. Emergency notifications are therefore sent to the corresponding health professional, as well as to relatives and emergency caregivers.
With the evolution of the industry, it has been possible to implement telecare services in other environments where they might be as useful, if not more so – especially if a greater number of people can benefit from them. It comes along with a comprehensive care solution for older individuals that allow them to live better in elderly homes. Such services use tools that address the overall needs of an aged person thanks to the features brought by IoT to promote active and healthy aging – including monitoring of vital signs.
Thus, residential telecare services can cover more areas and represent technological advances that improve the quality of life of older adults while rendering the tasks of professionals easier.
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