Building Telecare in England sets out the government’s vision for the development of telecare services.
The document gives advice to councils and their health, housing and social care partners, on how to develop local telecare strategies.
The government sees telecare – the provision of equipment to help individuals live independently at home - as:
• reducing the need for residential/nursing care
• unlocking resources that can be redirected elsewhere in the system
• increasing choice and independence for services users
• reducing the burden placed on carers and providing them with more personal
freedom
• contributing to care and support for people with long term health conditions
• reducing acute hospital admissions
• reducing accidents and falls in the home
• supporting hospital discharge and intermediate care
• contributing to the development of a range of preventative services
• helping those who wish to die at home to do so with dignity.
Over the next 50 years the number of people aged 65 and over will rise from 9.3 million to 16.8 million.
Effective use of telecare and telehealth – using technology to monitor health conditions remotely - will make it possible for thousands of older people to remain independent and maintain control over their lives in their own homes for longer.
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