Living Well at Home – Assisted-living company uses GrandCare technology to monitor elders at home

 

…Technology used to monitor elders at home

Living Well co-founder and CEO Tessa ten Tusscher said the company provides an assortment of in-home support for elders. The Mill Valley resident co-founded the company with Doris Bersing, Ph.D., an authority on diversity and aging.

Technology plays a pivotal role in the organization, as each client has a webpage the caregivers and family members can use to look at schedules and medical information, and communicate with one another.

Living Well offers an in-house technology system with options that include monitoring the resident’s movement (with motion and door sensors), screening phone calls and turning off lights…
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The sensors can track basic behavior and be set up to call a certain person, or emergency officials, if someone deviates significantly (spends more than 30 minutes in the bathroom, doesn’t come downstairs in the morning)
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Travis Woods, Living Well’s technology consultant, set up the software (called GrandCare). He said the touch-screen computer system people would have in their homes also has games, e-mail, a Web browser and capability for relatives to share photos.

Tusscher said that while some people may feel the technology is too intrusive, it provides a round-the-clock monitoring system that diminished the need to pay for someone in the home 24 hours a day…
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