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How telecare can help carers
30/11/2016
Telecare is far from the only technology that can ease the burden of caring, but it is particularly effective. That’s because all telecare sensors can connect your elderly relative or loved one to a monitoring centre if help is needed. In other words, telecare provides a lifeline, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. With telecare in place, you can be alerted if your elderly relative or loved one trips or falls at home, or needs help for any other reason and can’t reach a telephone. Meanwhile, they will not be left alone, uncertain as to whether anyone will arrive to assist.
Once you have a telecare base-unit in your home, many other telecare devices can be programmed to connect to that same base-unit automatically.* The base-unit is the part shown in the centre of the picture above [makes/models differ]. The base-unit should come as standard when you purchase your pendant alarm. It is the most important part of any telecare system, as it is the base-unit which places the call to a 24/7 telecare monitoring centre. Without it, your telecare sensors would not send an alert. If you don’t already have a pendant alarm system at home, you can purchase the base-unit along with any other telecare device, such as those listed on our telecare products page. With your base-unit in place, you can then add more telecare devices, if and when your elderly parent or loved one's care needs change.
*It is important to ask suppliers about telecare base-unit compatibility at the outset, before choosing your telecare system. This is because the number and type of telecare sensors that can connect to a particular base-unit will always depend on its make and model. TASK have a range of base-units and a wide range of telecare devices which connect to them, please contact us for further details.
