Telecare Aware has moved – see below

Community Care, the UK’s leading weekly magazine for the social care goes telecare aware with three interesting articles published today.

Push button care

Cardiff carer caught by client’s camera

Gadgets don’t care

The Department of Health has published a survey of self care devices and products for people with long term conditions. Read here.

The Change Agent Team have produced the following.
Technical Brief 01 Care in Extra Care Housing
Outlines variations and common features. Highlights good practice and provides practical pointers in determining the characteristics and staffing levels of the care service in Extra Care Housing.

Technical Brief 02 Funding Extra Care Housing
The principal ways Extra Care Housing developments are financed. Reviews sources of capital funding, modelling of a scheme’s economic viability, and revenue funding.
Visit website to download them.

If the government admitted that 175,000 people were locked up for no reason, it would normally expect flak. Yet the Department of Health’s estimate of the number of older people confined unnecessarily to care homes triggered little outrage when it came out last month. Read more.

Staff from Harrow Primary Care Trust, The North West London Hospitals Trust and Age Concern Harrow were on a bus distributing information and advice for the public on what they can do to prevent a fall, and what help is available. Read the publicity here.

Three more telecare factsheets (and a related spreadsheet) have been added to the CSIP Change Agent Team website. They cover:
Case studies and examples of telecare in action (16 pages)
Telecare evidence (11 pages)
Telecare on the Net (instructions for spreadsheet) (4 pages)
Telecare on the Net spreadsheet

Link to site: http://www.icesdoh.org/doc.asp?ID=22

“In 5 to 7 years’ time we believe we have the potential to become at least a £20m turnover business”, said David Muxworthy, Director. Read article here.