Personal alarm service includes pendants and fall detectors to support independence at home
Retirement emergency call service Careline Support has launched a new Personal Alarm offering to provide support and reassurance directly to older people who wish to…
EXCLUSIVE: A day in the life of a technology-enabled living innovations lead
Holly Gittings, Technology Enabled Living Innovations Lead for Herefordshire Council, discusses her assistive technology role within the council, how the local authority is managing the…
Telecare industry and NHS work together to design TEC urgent community response tool
The TEC Services Association (TSA) has helped design an innovative technology-enabled care (TEC) urgent community response tool that improves responsiveness to patient…
Telecare partnership aims to reduce associated costs of health and care services in the UK
A new assistive technology partnership is promising to provide advanced health and care technology to social care providers across the UK to help improve quality…
Council wins award for pioneering and safeguarding TEC project
Kent County Council’s commissioned technology-enabled care (TEC) project, Kara, has won an award at the Health Tech Digital Awards 2022 for its use of pioneering…
Website relaunch allows users to easily purchase telecare products and access 24-hour monitoring service
Millbrook Healthcare, an outsourced equipment provider to the NHS and local authorities has relaunched Mi-Guardian with a new website and product range, making the company’s…
Local authority introduces new digital telecare service ahead of 2025 analogue switch-off
Around 1,100 adults are set to benefit from a new telecare and home safety service introduced by Portsmouth City Council, which has gone live with…
Council’s low-cost remote care services recognised as ‘highest standard’
An audit of Gateshead Council's remote care service has found it to be of the ‘highest standard’, enabling service users to live independently. Gateshead Care…
Telecare services could save the UK more than £14bn over the next decade
Extending telecare services to more people could save the UK’s care providers £ billion by the end of the decade, new analysis has found. Economic…
Amazon launches new service with fall detection and urgent response for Alexa voice tech
eCommerce giant Amazon has introduced a new subscription service for its Alexa voice-activated technology called Alexa Together, which acts as a technology-enabled care (TEC) service…