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Philips Lifeline has published a free CarePartners Mobile app for iPhones and Android smartphones that enables family caregivers (carers) to connect with each other and to coordinate care plans privately and securely. More information and download links: CarePartners Mobile. We do not often report on individual apps, but this looks interesting.
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Telehealth and Telecare Aware posts pointers to a broad range of news items. Authors of those items often use terms 'telecare' and telehealth' in inventive and idiosyncratic ways. Telecare Aware's editors can generally live with that variation. However, when we use these terms we usually mean:
• Telecare: from simple personal alarms (AKA pendant/panic/medical/social alarms, PERS, and so on) through to smart homes that focus on alerts for risk including, for example: falls; smoke; changes in daily activity patterns and 'wandering'. Telecare may also be used to confirm that someone is safe and to prompt them to take medication. The alert generates an appropriate response to the situation allowing someone to live more independently and confidently in their own home for longer.
• Telehealth: as in remote vital signs monitoring. Vital signs of patients with long term conditions are measured daily by devices at home and the data sent to a monitoring centre for response by a nurse or doctor if they fall outside predetermined norms. Telehealth has been shown to replace routine trips for check-ups; to speed interventions when health deteriorates, and to reduce stress by educating patients about their condition.
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I got the ‘not available in your country’ statement when I tried to download. I should have figured that when I couldn’t find it through a keyword search in Play.
I did however find an app for fallers – ‘iCare Fall Detector’ which looks interesting – and it is only 64p. A few issues such as the app needs to be running which can be life draining (battery!) but I am liking it so far. It populates your 5 responders from your contacts when selected which is sweet. I have ‘fallen’ five times this morning and it worked each time. It rings through the loudspeaker and microphone on the handset.
A good use for your old android when you upgrade – give it to your mum as a Xmas pressie falls detector.