SmartCare in Scotland aims to improve health, care, and wellbeing for 10,000 people aged 50+ in Ayrshire and Clyde Valley through better coordination, information sharing, and an improved approach to falls prevention and management using technology. The SmartCare platform sits on the Living it Up digital health and wellbeing platform, providing personalized tools, information and support to encourage self-management, all while respecting user privacy and safety. The portal and technologies are meant to empower both users and their unpaid carers by alleviating stress, improving relationships and confidence, and allowing people to participate more fully in work, care duties and community life.

1. Lynn Garrett
Scottish Centre for Telehealth and
Telecare

2. • When life brings you mountains, you don’t
waste your time asking why; you spend
your time climbing over them.”
• ‘Think only on the climb. Think on what
you control’
• ‘We all climb our own mountain’

3. Self Directed
SDS is the support a person purchases or arranges to
meet agreed health and social care outcomes.
Choice: An act of choosing between two or more
possibilities.
Self management: Management of or by oneself; the
taking of responsibility for one’s own behaviour and well-
being.

4. Is it going to be that easy?

5. Are we victims of our own
success?
• Something has to
change...........

6. Is technology the answer?
• Telecare
• Telehealth
• Jointly
• Digital health, care and wellbeing
platforms: www.livingitup.org

7. SmartCare in Scotland aims:
• To improve the health, care and wellbeing of
10,000 people aged 50+ within Ayrshire and the
Clyde Valley.
• Do this through better co-ordination, information
sharing and an improved approach to falls
prevention and management.
• It will fully utilise ICT services and applications
that are vital in supporting integrated care.
• Encourage and promote self management.
• Created with co-design and co-production.

8. What is it?
• Sits on the Living it Up platform
• Localised by Area
• Falls specific but in a wider health and
care context
• Valid and safe information
• Personal diary
• Personal held file
• Falls self assessment tool

9. LiU Vision
LiU Services will help transform health,
care and wellbeing the same way that the
internet has transformed financial
services, social interactions and
information and advice
• Focussed on the person within their
community
• Increasing digital inclusion

10. Portal

11. What about carers in Scotland
• Provide unpaid care to ill, frail or
disabled family member, friend or
partner
• 660,000 carers – 1 in 8
• 3 in 5 of us will be carers
• Carers save Scotland £10 billion each
year
• 1 million carers in Scotland by 2037

12. For people who:
share care
Juggle work and care
People with smartphones,
tablets or access to the web
For organisations who:
employ carers or deliver services
to them

13. Key features
 Simple, intuitive
group
communication
 Tasks/lists
 Calendar
 Profile page
 Medication list
 Contacts page

14. Benefits of health and care
technology
• Increases wellbeing
• Alleviates stress and pressure
• Improves relationships
• Increases confidence
• Ability to remain or participate in paid
employment/leisure activities
• Increases self management
• Empowers users and carers
DOES NOT replace people:
The sherpa won’t climb for
you, he’ll climb with you.

15. • If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung
by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up,
set your goals high but take one step at a time.
Sometimes you don't think you're progressing
until you step back and see how high you've
really gone.

16. For more information contact:
E: Lynn.garrett@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk
www.sctt.scot.nhs.uk
www.livingitup.org.uk
SmartCareScot
SmartCare Scotland
E: patricia.clark@carerscotland.org
W: www.carerscotland.org
www.facebook.com/CarersScotland