Valerie Ann Carter, staff nurse/trainer at Harbour Healthcare’s Madison Court care home in St Helens, explains the benefits of care software used at the Merseyside facility.
With an increasingly ageing demographic, a significant public health challenge is the incidence of falls. Falls in the social care sector are a major concern, with care home residents three times more likely to fall than their community-dwelling peers and ten times more likely to sustain a significant injury, as a result.1
However, without the proper care and supervision, residents who are known to be prone to falling, or who are at a greater risk of falling, should not be left unsupervised or allowed to mobilise on their own. The process is all about risk assessment and prevention.
Until recently, practically all fall prevention strategies in the social care sector relied heavily on human intervention, i.e. watching and assisting the vulnerable when they need to be mobile.
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