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Widespread evidence of efficiency and quality of life gains exist today – the benefits are undeniable. Telehealthcare can dramatically improve the lives of people as well as their carers and is an enabler for re-engineering of health and social care provision whilst creating an integrated healthcare pathway.
The economic case for Tunstall’s solutions is proven and very compelling.
The report by CIH and Tunstall Healthcare addresses how redesigned housing solutions can improve health and wellbeing, with particular emphasis on the role of assistive technology.
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The new report from Housing Learning Improvement Network (LIN), focuses on the role of assisted living technology in social housing for vulnerable adults.
The report, entitled ‘Supporting Vulnerable Adults: the application of assistive living technology to support independence’, describes how technology can help support vulnerable people such as those with mental health issues, learning disabilities, those recovering from alcohol or substance misuse, and people fleeing domestic violence.
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This GGI report provides a number of recommendations aimed at Government and local authority officials about how telecare services and user outcomes can be improved. It is targeted at policy-makers, local authority councillors with an interest in adult social care, local authority directors of adult social services, and health and wellbeing board members. Its purpose is to encourage decision-makers to understand the current provision of telecare services in England and how services can be improved for the future.
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New research from Carers UK has shown that, despite huge potential benefits of using telecare and telehealth, families caring for ill, frail and disabled loved ones are still facing barriers to accessing the services.
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The report from Housing LIN focuses on the role of assisted living technology within general needs housing. The report is the second in a series of Board Assurance Prompts (BAPs) aimed at leaders and decision makers that are responsible for the management of general housing schemes.
The paper looks at the role of technology to support independence within general social housing for older people. It has been developed in partnership with Nigel Appleton of Contact Consulting and the GGI (Good Governance Institute).
A new report from Housing LIN, ‘Specialised housing for older people: The application of assisted living technology to support independence' looks at the role of technology within sheltered and supported housing schemes to assist older people.
This report describes the findings of a collaborative project evaluating the potential cost savings arising from the use of telecare.
Between August 2006 and March 2011, the Scottish Government made £20.35 million available under the Telecare Development Programme (TDP) to drive the adoption of telecare by local social and health care service providers. This report shows how the funding delivered significant results including thousands of admissions to hospitals and residential care being avoided, and gross savings of approximately £78.6 million.
The Good Governance Institute has compiled a series of Board Assurance Prompts (BAPs) aimed at those involved in planning, commissioning and delivering health, housing and social care services. The reports have been designed to give both practical and strategic support to organisations seeking to incorporate telecare and/or telehealth into their service offering in order to support the provision of excellent care and support.
Read the Reablement Board Assurance Prompt
Read the Managing Long Term Conditions Board Assurance Prompt
Read the Implementing Telehealth Services Board Assurance Prompt
Design to be read in conjunction with the Telehealth and Long Term Conditions BAPs above, this briefing document from Good Governance Institute aims contribute to the debate around one of the most promising opportunities that technology brings to healthcare - telehealth. Includes audit guide.
Read Better Care for People with Long Term Conditions: the Quality and Good Governance of Telehealth
The Strategic Society Centre has published a new report, Telecare Ready: Creating a universal entitlement to telecare, as part of its Care Funding Futures work programme. The report calls on the Government to create a universal entitlement to telecare support.
The new report, supported by Tunstall, highlights the need for the implementation of a new strategic framework for telecare policy, which includes a clear and consistent national entitlement and assessment model for telecare, with funding independent from council decisions. It also calls for a telecare service that is free at the point of use, regardless of wealth, or applies some low-level weekly charges.
The full report can be downloaded here
IRISS (Institute for Reesearch and Innovation in Social Services) has published a practice-oriented evidence summary on the subject of supporting unpaid carers through telecare.
Entitled, Supporting unpaid carers: the benefits of telecare, the summary forms part of the IRISS Insights series that has been developed to assist the social services workforce to readily access and use evidence to inform their practice.
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