Telecare

Telecare is the term for offering remote care of elderly and physically less able people, providing the care and reassurance needed to allow them to remain living own homes. The use of sensors may be part of a package which can provide support for people with illnesses such as dementia, or people at risk of falling. Telecare is the term for offering remote care of elderly and physically less able people, providing the care and reassurance needed to allow them to remain living own homes. The use of sensors may be part of a package which can provide support for people with illnesses such as dementia, or people at risk of falling. Most telecare mitigates harm by reacting to untoward events and raising a help response quickly. Some telecare, such as safety confirmation and lifestyle monitoring have a preventive function in that a deterioration in the telecare user's wellbeing can be spotted at an early stage. Telecare is specifically different from telemedicine and telehealth. Telecare refers to the idea of enabling people to remain independent in their own homes by providing person-centred technologies to support the individual or their carers. Mobile telecare is an emerging service where state of the art mobile devices with roaming SIMs are utilised to allow a client to go outside their home but still have a 24/7 telecare service available to support them. Typical devices that do this are such things as the Pebbell mobile GPS tracker.