Housing expertise of the long run unveiled as a part of TAPPI venture?
A NEW digital hub in West Lothian showcasing housing expertise of the long run received Bield stakeholder approval after its official launch final week.
Following a tenant sneak-peek in March, Bield Housing and Care has formally opened the Bield Tech Hub in Linlithgow, having secured £75k of funding by way of the TAPPI venture.
The launch allowed stakeholders, together with native well being and social care partnerships, workers and different housing associations, to trial and provides suggestions on digital care developments of the long run.
The Bield Tech Hub consists of 4 areas together with two bedrooms with ensuite loos, one kitchen area and one dwelling area.?There may be additionally a session room and a eating area. Every room has been fitted out with totally different applied sciences for folks to check.
Stakeholders had been welcomed to the area by Dr Lynne Douglas, Bield CEO, who stated: “We’re delighted to have formally opened the Bield Tech Hub and we’re positive it is going to deliver life-changing expertise to West Lothian and additional afield. It was incredible to provide our stakeholders and venture companions the chance to see first-hand what their help has facilitated.??
“It’s crucial that folks get the possibility to familiarise themselves with this unimaginable tech made out there by way of the TAPPI venture and get a real perception into housing of the long run.”
The Know-how for our Ageing Inhabitants: Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) venture goals to enhance the best way expertise is utilized in housing and take care of older folks. Led by the Housing Studying and Enchancment Community (Housing LIN), the TEC Companies Affiliation (TSA) and funded by The Dunhill Medical Belief, TAPPI seeks to handle the chance that expertise has to boost the lives of our ageing inhabitants and the limitations that stop its adoption.
The funding will give Bield the distinctive alternative to work with tenants, workers and companions to realize perception into a spread of units, apps and methods throughout a wide range of housing settings.? With co-production at its coronary heart, Bield workers and tenants could have shared accountability to supply digital companies to help unbiased dwelling – a primary for the Scottish housing charity.
The Bield Tech Hub options three most important applied sciences.? The primary, Anthropos, makes use of predictive and analytical applied sciences to map people’ each day routines and sends insights to household or workers.? If irregular motion is detected, Anthropos intervenes to forestall a disaster second from occurring.? This helps unbiased dwelling for so long as potential by proactively averting potential damage or hazard.
Aquarate ingesting cups, which monitor people’ fluid consumption by measuring liquid quantity robotically, are additionally out there.? This monitoring implies that optimum fluid ranges are maintained, and could be personalised to mirror people’ wants and care.?
The third expertise is Vayyar, a non-wearable, non-invasive, four-dimensional monitoring expertise which helps fall detection.? It additionally determines room presence and tracks mobility ranges and toilet visits, all of which facilitate autonomous dwelling.?
Lynne added: “Our workforce have labored onerous to make sure that Bield tenants, prospects and their households are beneficiaries of extraordinarily related tech that might make an actual distinction to their day-to-day lives – we’re sure that the three applied sciences obtain that.
“Preventative care applied sciences throughout the board underpin our main tech revolution at Bield and we’re assured that there will likely be fewer falls and emergencies, usually serving to folks to stay independently for longer and be extra assured of their houses.”
Bield’s use of progressive expertise has already obtained main recognition – it’s ‘Encourage Section 2’ venture which utilised proactive telecare was the winner of the Transformation Award on the 2023 ITEC Awards in Birmingham.? The ITEC Awards have fun innovation inside the sector and the optimistic influence Know-how Enabled Care has on the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals within the UK.??The Transformation Award honours companies which have deliberate and applied main transformation with a proactive and preventative method.??
Bield is a housing and care charity dedicated to offering progressive, versatile and high-quality housing options and help for older folks.? Bield Housing and Care has round 180 developments which facilitate unbiased dwelling throughout Scotland.
To seek out out extra about Bield and its developments, go to https://www.bield.co.uk/ or observe on Fb @bieldhousingandcare and Twitter @BieldScotland?
For extra particulars on TAPPI, go to https://www.housinglin.org.uk/TAPPI2?
