Dementia monitoring demo

Dementia Monitoring System
(Memory Care Profiling)
System Demonstration/Overview
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Dementia Monitoring
This is when dementia monitoring becomes useful..
Traditional nurse call (call bell) systems use manual call
devices to summon staff when assistance is required.
People who suffer from Dementia & Alzheimer's do not
have the cognitive ability to know when to call for help.
People who suffer from Dementia will often activate
‘manual’ nurse call devices as a repetitive action – this
causes numerous false calls to care staff who quickly
learn to ‘ignore’ these calls or residents.
Traditional nurse call (call bell) systems are rendered
inefficient & useless when residents with Dementia
truly need assistance.
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Dementia Monitoring
Dementia Monitoring systems use passive methods to
supervise the resident/patient without using any
actual call devices. The system monitors and tracks
resident behaviors and alerts care staff when behavior
patterns differ from normal behavior.
Most dementia monitoring systems are expensive to
deploy and operate. The Telecare IP (Memory Care
Profiling) lets you overlay a fully networked dementia
monitoring system in only a few rooms, and utilizing
your existing nurse call systems’ hardware. Telecare IP
lets you mix traditional nurse call with dementia
monitoring all in a single system to reduce on costs.
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Dementia Monitoring
• Bed Exit alerts
• Agitation/Restlessness alerts
• Inactivity alerts
• Washroom Occupancy alerts
• Room Exit alerts
• Incontinence alerts
• Overtime/Disabled alerts
Memory Care Profiles Generate
any/all of the following events:
Here is how they function..
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Bed Exit Alerts..
Bed exit sensors generate alarms
when a patient leaves his/her bed.
When monitored by a Dementia
Monitoring System, the bed exit
sensor only alerts staff during preset
times-of-day (allowing residents to
‘nap’ during the day without
alarming staff unnecessarily).
Memory Care profiles also monitor
other room sensors, so that staff are
not alerted if a resident simply exit’s
their bed under normal situations.
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Bed Exit Alerts..
A bed exit sensor
monitors whenever a
resident is in their bed.
When the resident
leaves, no bed exit
alarm is generated
when it is detected as
normal behavior
(such as going to the
washroom).
But when a bed exit is
detected, but no other
activity sensed, the
system assumes the
resident has fallen
from their bed &
requires assistance.
Another sign of
normal behavior is
when the person
leaves their bed and
exit’s the room or
moves throughout
their room. This will
not generate an
unwanted nuisance
alarm to care staff.
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Agitation Alerts..
People who suffer from dementia
and related illnesses may become
easily agitated, which often leads to
violent behavior.
Tendencies that lead to an agitated
resident are easy to notice, such as;
pacing or restlessness.
Memory Care Profiles use in-room
motion sensors to detect and sense
when a patient is about to become
agitated, so that care staff may
intervene early to prevent a violent
resident.
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Agitation Alerts..
In-room motion
sensors allow the
Dementia Monitoring
system to monitor
normal resident
movement patterns
and determine
excessive motion that
may lead to agitation.
A resident who paces
continuously in their
room will cause an
agitation alert to care
staff.
Care staff may now
intervene early; before
this resident becomes
violent.

Inactivity Alerts..
People who suffer from dementia
and related illnesses are at high risk
of falling and injuring themselves.
Telecare IP monitors movement
throughout a residents’ room to
alert care staff whenever a resident
may have fallen. Inactivity alerts are
only generated when room motion
stops and no other room sensor
detects activity.
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Washroom Occupancy Alerts..
People with dementia often enter a
washroom and forget why or even
fall asleep in the washroom.
A Dementia Monitoring system
monitors when a resident is in an out
of the washroom. The system tracks
normal behavior and washroom
activity and alerts staff when a
resident is in a washroom for an
excessive period that is longer than
the residents’ normal patterns.
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Washroom Occupancy Alerts..
A resident may use the
washroom facilities
under normal
situations and the
Memory Care Profiles
will not generate a
washroom occupancy
alert to staff.
If the resident is in the
washroom for an
excessive time, staff
will be automatically
notified to intervene.
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Room Exit Alerts..
A good dementia monitoring system
should help with patient wander
prevention to avoid falls and lost
patients.
The Telecare IP system will alert care
staff as soon as a resident leaves
their room during normal sleeping
hours. This feature is only active
during sleeping times to prevent
false exit alerts when residents are
allowed to roam freely.
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Room Exit Alerts..
During daytime hours,
residents may enter
and exit their room
freely, providing them
with independence.
Staff are not alerted
during these times.
When a resident
should be sleeping,
staff will be alerted as
soon as the resident
leaves their room.
This allows staff to
prevent wandering /
lost patients.
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Incontinence Alerts..
Incontinence (aka bed wet) sensors
may complement a dementia
monitoring system to alert staff or
housekeeping as soon as bed linens
require changing.
Preventing the time spent in bed
with soiled linens is important to the
health and well-being of elderly
patients.
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Room Bypassed/Overtime Alerts..
A proper Memory Care system must
have a simple method for staff to
respond and cancel dementia alerts.
A staff presence switch is used
(normally outside the rooms) to
allow responding caregivers to
activate that staff is in attendance
and cancel any dementia alert or
alarm.
Telecare IP includes built-in timers
to alert staff if a room has been left
in bypass mode after the caregiver
has left the room.
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Why Use Telecare IP™ Dementia Monitoring?
 Use wired or wireless sensors for easy installation
 Add rooms individually as needed to reduce cost
 Truly networked dementia monitoring/reporting
 Individually definable resident profiles
 Telecare IP integrates to other pager & phone systems
 Creates a truly silent system to promote a calm living
environment for residents with dementia
 Free your staff’s time for more important duties
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Memory Care Profiling™ by Houle Healthcare
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