Residents in retirement villages and community care organisations expect the latest in in-home technology, and their families expect a duty of care.
If you’re looking for ways to improve the health of your older residents, an important thing to consider is a personal alarm system.
At their most basic, personal alarms let people summon assistance at the press of a button if they are unwell, or nave an accident or injury at home.
They can also provide fall detection, the importance of which has been shown by numerous accounts of people spending hours on the floor after a fall before finally being found.
It’s important to consider who responds to alarms, and what their qualifications are.
One of the leading providers in Australia, and the largest provider to the retirement village industry, INS LifeGuard is staffed by healthcare professionals.
They don’t use security guards, school-leavers or the first aid attendants commonly used in the industry.
With INS, when you press the help button, you’re talking to qualified healthcare professionals. This means INS can tailor their services around prevention.
They encourage clients to press their button whenever they are feeling unwell, have medical questions, or even if they’re feeling lonely and just need to chat. This is an important distinction.
How many times have we heard of someone who, for example, had been having chest pains for hours and didn’t’ tell anyone?
They didn’t realise it was serious and didn’t want to be a bother to anyone.
Well INS LifeGuard wants to be bothered.
They would much prefer to deal with a situation early and before it becomes an emergency event.
In fact, often INS has been able to avoid serious medical events by having their nurses triage the situation and offer medical advice and assistance before the situation became critical.
For more information, visit www.inslifeguard.com.au.