Revolutionising housing with care with life enhancing technologies - your questions answered
This paper provides essential "did you know?" questions and answers for housing providers, commissioners and managers of adult social care when it comes to considering the best use of technology enabled care, as we enter the digital world. Published to coincide with the SW Housing LIN annual conference on 20 October 2015, it is divided into 6 sections:
A) Funding - how can telecare be funded
B) Specific applications - can technology support cooking or medication
C) Links to housing strategy - how does technology support business objectives
D) Attitudes to technology - how can we overcome fears around social isolation
E) Infrastructure / models - what do we need to know about moving to IP/Digital
F) Awareness - how to engage the whole community