As the population continues to age, more solutions will be required to help seniors “age in place” for as long as possible.
Most seniors want to remain at home as long as they safely can. And now many companies, including Independa, are providing more and more ways for the elderly to do just that, with its suite of sensors for professional and family caregivers to track and monitor the health and well-being of the independent elderly.
The company has just announced its latest contribution to keeping seniors healthy at home, Telcare glucose monitoring, which measures blood-sugar levels, then uses Telcare’s mobile device for monitoring and automatically sending these levels to Independa’s “one-stop, cloud-based Caregiver Web App,” according to a company press release.
Family and caregivers will be able to get access to the glucose data as part of a complete dashboard-style summary anywhere from a computer or tablet, allowing patients to move around and go places while still being monitored, saving time and money by preventing hospital re-admissions, and freeing up caregivers who no longer need to call doctors’ office to get patients’ glucose measurements.
Telcare’s glucose testing results will immediately be transmitted to Independa’s care management cloud, delivering measurements to professional and family caregivers and sending alerts if more treatment is necessary.
In January, Independa launched Health Measures, “a platform combining the company’s cloud-based services with conventional telephony to assist in providing remote healthcare monitoring services to those living at home,” according to a story by Eric Wicklund.
The telehealth company designed this application for people living in rural areas with little access to doctors or cellular coverage, and those without funds or who didn’t have the time to put together a wireless health monitoring solution immediately after leaving the hospital, according to Wicklund.
“By introducing Telcare’s glucose monitoring system to our Integrated CloudCare suite, we’re adding flexibility and providing another option to help caregivers cost-effectively monitor the precise health status of elderly care recipients without time-consuming personal visits or ineffective telephone calls,” said Independa CEO Kian Saneii, in the press release.
The information coming from Telcare glucometers will be sent to Telcare’s central server, “which will securely deliver the data to Independa’s cloud-based Caregiver Web App, what Independa calls the gateway to all information on care recipients.” This application offers a dashboard and control panel that caregivers can get access to on the road, in the car, or in the patient’s home, through desktop or laptop computers, or computer tablets, according to the press release.
Edited by
Jennifer Russell
