Coventry City Council and its Orbit Care and Repair team are piloting a scheme to provide telecare services to people with moderate needs.
The service tends to be given to people needing high levels of support. The council wants to offer telecare to a wider range of people by October 2010.
The council already uses telecare in a variety of ways to give individuals more control and live independent lives. This includes:
· installation of 375 monitoring units and 1,500 pendant alarms across the city – most of them for older people in their own homes
· extending telecare to people from 18 years of age
· personalised nurse call pager systems for people in housing with care flats
· monitors in the homes of people with learning disabilities to detect changed in behaviour.
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