Search results for ‘Subject term:"older people"’ Sort:
Results 1 - 1 of 1
Piloting telecare in Kent County Council: the key lessons: final report
- Author:
- ALASZEWSKI Andy
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Centre for Health Services Studies
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 111p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
The reports focuses on use of telecare in Kent where 550 people are currently piloting a range of telecare interventions. The Kent project currently covers six out of 12 districts in the county with suitable candidates supplied with appropriate sensors to use in their homes which monitor aspects such as falls, movement, smoke and the environment. The county is also piloting telecare to support patients with dementia and those needing intermediate care. The report found that there were practical problems in implementing telecare in the pilot sites such as getting social services care managers to make enough referrals and also in the variation of data recording between call centres once telecare was in operation. However it also reported that frontline staff were generally positive about telecare and the benefits it could provide for users, carers and the social services directorate and that those using the technology also felt positively about it.