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Community equipment and care homes: appendix F
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Integrating Community Equipment Services
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Integrating Community Equipment Services
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Presents flowcharts which use the National Minimum Standards (Older People) and Department of Health circulars to support commissioners, community equipment services and care homes in developing local partnership arrangements to ensure that the equipment and adaptation needs of users are met in accordance with agreed care plans.
Telecare implementation guide
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Integrating Community Equipment Services
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Integrating Community Equipment Services
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In simple terms, telecare includes detectors or monitors (for example, motion or fall detectors) often linked to community alarm systems that trigger a warning at a control centre that can be responded to within defined timescales. There are a number of configurations for equipment and response.