All of these technologies dramatically enhance an elderly person’s quality of life and ability to live independently. While also giving volunteers, caregivers, professionals, and response centres joined up, seamless communications, and patient information, which means elderly people can stay in their homes and remain independent for longer. This delivers the healthcare industry a cost-effective, scalable, secure and highly efficient way to provide more personalised and reliable communications – potentially saving the UK government millions of pounds every year. This is already a reality in The Netherlands, where we provide services for 10,000 eldercare patients in their own homes with a combination of tools mentioned above.

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