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New PERS Product Features Automatic Fall Detection
March 24th, 2010
Filed under category: Elder Falls, Personal Emergency Response System
Laurie Orlov has called for four features that ought to be incorporated in all PERS products in the future: portability (more than 400 feet from the base), long battery life, simplicity, and passivity.
When Laurie says “passive,” she means that the PERS device the user has will automatically notify the central station of a fall even if the user cannot — or neglects to — push the panic button. A new PERS product promises to do just that.
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New PERS Product – Wellcore Provides Automatic Fall Detection
February 17th, 2010
Filed under category: Elder Falls, Personal Emergency Response System
A new product offering has recently hit the internet publicity machine with a good deal of noise — it’s a personal emergency response system that incorporates automatic fall detection, central station notification, and motion pattern recognition. The device even reminds users to wear the device and sends warnings to family or caregivers if the device is left unworn for a period of time.
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PERS System Vital Part of Home Health Care for Elderly
October 25th, 2009
Filed under category: Elder Falls, Personal Emergency Response System
Congratulations are in order to New Hampshire-based Live Free Home Health Care, which is celebrating its third year of operations. The company specializes in offering home care solutions for patients with a variety of care requirements. From experience, these folks saw that a PERS system could be an important addition to the provision of home care to their clients. Check out the link below:
Live Free Home Health Care celebrates anniversary – Fosters
Seeing a need from three years of client cases, Live Free Home Health Care also added a personal emergency response system as well as monitored medication dispenses to assist those clients who have trouble remembering to take their medication. Medication non-compliance can be attributed to approximately 30 percent of hospitalizations for people over age 65.
Automatic Fall Detection
October 25th, 2009
Filed under category: Elder Falls
According to the following article, one in three elders will experience a fall each year … but there may be some help available in the near future. Here is an interesting announcement about a product that may enable notifications to be sent to caregivers without the user having to even push a button. The technology automatically senses when the user has fallen and sends out a notification automatically, in some cases with video of the incident. While this appears to be new, and problems may need to be ironed out, this is something we will be keeping our eyes on.
Lifesight Announces Automated Fall Detection Services’ Public Trial Stage
Lifesight offers that caregivers can now be immediately notified when an elder falls to the ground by receiving emergency alerts about falls from visual sensors located where falls are most likely to occur, like the bedroom and bathroom.
Private alerts are sent to caregivers with text only information like time of fall and instructions for the caregiver. Similarly, when privacy is not required, the caregiver or nurse would receive an alert including time of fall and an image of the event that triggered the alert. The benefit here is that the caregiver can visually verify the possible fall and call for help immediately.
This immediate fall notification system is able to notify caregivers within moments after a falls occurs, automatically.
