One struggle in assisted living environments is visibility and safety. There just aren’t enough healthcare workers to constantly monitor residents.
A solution, however, is elderly monitoring systems. These systems can help carers monitor their residents without physically seeing them. For example, if they fall, get out of bed, or leave the room, a nurse will be notified.
As you can imagine, this can reduce staff demand and improve the safety of residents, making it a must-have for any nursing home.
One issue, though, is that these systems are wi-fi dependent. Without good wi-fi, systems can be unstable, unresponsive, and not work for their intended use.
At a senior living facility, falls, wandering, and delayed responses are all too common.
Falls, in fact, are a serious issue with older adults. The CDC even reports that 2 million seniors are treated in emergency departments for fall-related injuries each year.
When a resident has monitoring systems, however, help is automatically notified if an issue occurs. This allows care to respond to them when they’re in need.
Currently, there’s a huge staff shortage in U.S. nursing homes. 77% of nursing homes in our country have some type of staffing shortage.
One way we’re able to reduce the demand for staff is by using an elderly monitoring system. Instead of staff physically checking on residents constantly, they can get a snapshot of their activity via a monitoring system.
By having such a system in place, it reduces the need for staffing. This ensures that those who actually need help get the attention they need.
A senior camera monitoring system also increases operational visibility. This not only helps staff monitor residents but it also helps managers oversee their operations.
For such managers, they can use these systems to monitor residents, review footage for incident reporting, and even support staff training.
An elderly monitoring system is excellent. However, it’s only as good as the network it’s hosted on.
Monitoring systems, either with or without cameras, rely on the internet to communicate and record in real time. Even a short, brief wi-fi outage can disrupt monitoring and alert systems, which could cause significant issues.
Effective monitoring must be facility-wide. There shouldn’t be any dead spots in residents' rooms, entrances, common areas, etc. If you don’t have sufficient network coverage, then you could miss out on serious monitoring alerts.
You need your elderly monitoring systems to work consistently, night and day. Without solid network stability, though, even the best cameras, monitoring equipment, etc., can lag, freeze, or worse, go offline.
At Beacon, we can develop a network system to support your elderly monitoring system by surveying your property, designing a network, and installing it with the best equipment.
Every assisted living facility is different. Because of this, we start our wifi services with a survey. This involves evaluating floor plans, existing infrastructure, blind spots, high-traffic zones, dead zone areas, etc. We will also review your monitoring and network needs.
With such information, we can then develop a monitor and network system. This system will be specially customised to your needs and property.
Once the design has been approved, we’ll carry out the entire installation according to plan. We’ll take care of all the hardware, wiring, configuration, and testing. Your staff will also receive onboard training so they know how to operate the system.
Get real-time visibility today by getting an elderly monitoring system installed with a solid network. See the difference it can make today. Contact Beacon and let us survey, design, and install an infrastructure that’ll benefit your facilities now and in the future.
We'll handle the infrastructure so you can run your operation without interruption.