Assistive Technology / Technology Enabled Care
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If you are caring for a family member or friend but you do not live with them, you can still encourage them to have things in place, which will help them and give you both peace of mind knowing that they are safe within their own home.
How can it help me as a carer?
Having the right assistive technology / technology enabled care in place can help the person you care for with daily tasks and let you, as their carer, know if they need help or are unsafe.
This can help with a range of situations that the cared for may find themselves in at home. They may have a fall and there is no one to help them get up or they forget to take their dinner out of the oven and set off a smoke or heat alarm.
Norfolk County Council Assistive Technology/Technology Enabled Care
What is Assistive Technology/Technology Enabled Care?
Assistive Technology, commonly referred to as Technology Enabled Care, is a range of electronic gadgets that can help you to live independently in your own home. This includes things such as:
- Sensors/detectors that link to a monitoring centre (via your rented community ‘pendant’ alarm). For example, smoke detectors or worn falls detectors.
- Global Positioning System (GPS) location devices that use a mobile network to raise an alert to a carer or monitoring centre.
- Triggers/sensors that can support a person or their carer in and around the home. For example, pendant buttons, door contacts or motion sensors linked to a pager
Who is the service for?
This service is for adults over 18 years living in their own home (this excludes residential/care homes).
All social care practitioners, aided by specialist technology enabled care colleagues, can discuss technology enabled care that would help you to stay independent and/or provide support for your carer.
How much does it cost?
Many of the gadgets are available on free loan. However, we might suggest some other gadgets that we do not provide that we think would be useful. We can provide useful information to suggest places where you can buy these directly.
How to contact Norfolk County Council
If you already have ongoing support from Adult Social Services please speak to your social worker about referring into our service.
You can also contact our Customer Service Centre to ask for a referral to the Assistive Technology team.
