20:00Äldre will be safe with the Ipad – Östgöta Correspondenten

Alarms, rörelsevakter, door alarm, led lighting, or sensors that warn if it’s wet on the floor or in the bed. Why not a skypesamtal to relatives who live far away, or a “digital” visits from the Home via an Ipad. Here are just a few examples of what you can use the technology to within omsorgsområdet.

Technology for the welfare of the

Now implements äldrenämnden a bet on what it calls välfärdstekniker. Until 2018 a few selected nursing homes – public and private – to implement different kinds of techniques and develop both these and the ways to work with them. The goal is to Linköping will be the best teknikkommunen for the elderly, and it is already 2020.

Äldrenämndens chairman of the board Mikael Sanfridsson (S) says that the initiative will bring new opportunities to increase safety for the elderly and their relatives.

” But it is not that we should cut down on the staff. On the contrary, we are investing in increased staffing, ” he says.

Eleven million, the bet will cost up to 2018. It is money that is in the board’s budget.

Sandrinoparken, Åleryd, service buildings Vikingstad, Trädgårn and Linghem is the first vårdboendena where the testing shall be carried out. Telia is a partner and to be with and develop different solutions. The advantage for them with the project is that they get access to an area – in this case, the care of the elderly – on a large scale and can work with different technical solutions on the basis of what users need or desire. A job where their sights are also set on the users in the future. A necessity, because the elderly are becoming more and more computer – and teknikvana, says Niklas Sundler, Telia.

procurement

If it gets to Telia as the final mission is, however, not at all certain, according to the omsorgsförvaltningens IT manager John Fristedt.

” No, it should be procured in the usual way after this period. There are many players in the market. Telia has not been, nor all we are asking for, ” he says.

heads of unit within the care of the elderly welcome this investment.

this is really needed, says Susanne Sundström, head of unit at Attendo. Colleagues No Micko and Anna-Carin Lindström, both heads of unit within the Leanlink agree with.

– When the whole world evolves so must we in care also to keep up with, it is, of course, says No Micko.

Susanne Sundström notes that the very technology already in demand by the older, as wi-fi and Internet.