Care Home Providers

Create Independent Living Smart Spaces

Challenges in the care home industry

The care home industry is subject to many competing pressures/challenges, ranging from:

  • Workforce Pressures:

    • Staffing shortages
    • Recruitment & retention
    • High turnover
    • Burnout & sickness

  • Financial & Funding Challenges:

    • Inadequate funding
    • Rising costs
    • Financial viability

  • Regulatory & Operational Challenges:

    • Complex regulations
    • Maintaining quality standards
    • Meeting diverse needs of residents

Positive outcomes for care home providers

Automated Spaces unique ‘Independent Living Smart Spaces’ solution, which combines smart home technologies with an activity monitoring solution, means that we can offer care home providers the following advantages, benefits and opportunities:

Workforce Pressures:

  • Do more with less; Automate manual daily tasks e.g., opening and closing blinds, turning lights on and off, opening and closing windows to aid ventilation of fresh air, turning on and off audio/video equipment in communal areas and resident’s rooms.
  • Attract & retain the best talent; Staff get to work with and are supported by the latest technology solutions.
  • Reduce turnover; Enhance staff job satisfaction as they can spend more quality time with residents providing actual care services.
  • Reduce burnout; Remove mundane and repetitive daily non-care related tasks from staff workloads.

Financial & Funding Challenges:

  • Offer a premium service; Our life enhancement solutions mean you could create additional revenue into your business with an optional upgrade service offering in existing as well as new care homes.
  • Control your costs; Our solutions only require a relatively small recurring revenue cost that can be accurately budgeted for several years into the future. Some of the solutions can also help you control your electrical, water and gas consumption.
  • Reduced procurement costs; Purchasing several systems, in a bundle, via a single supplier allows them to provide you with a higher level of discounts.
  • Competitive advantage; Offer a unique selling point over your competitors to ensure maximum occupancy levels.

Regulatory & Operational Challenges:

  • Improve quality standards; Our solutions can help your staff and care homes to achieve ‘Outstanding Ratings’ through the implementation of the following:
    • Safer environments with active monitoring of residents’ activities with comprehensive auditing and reporting.
    • Effective care, treatment and support from a modern workforce supported by appropriate latest technologies.
    • Increased dignity through technologies that can empower residents in their own care.
    • Responsive services via technologies that can immediately alert any worrying patterns/trends in resident activities that could be an indication of a health issue allowing for early medical intervention.
    • Well-led managerial decisions based on the accurate daily, weekly and monthly reporting of resident activities from the associated technologies ensuring effective governance.
    • Exceptional outcomes using technologies that complement and better support the care that your staff can offer residents.
    • Innovative solutions that can enhance the care provided by your staff and provide residents with the latest solutions.
    • Person-Centred technologies that can be easily customised for each individual's needs.
    • Support a strong culture of safety with technologies that provide reporting and audit capabilities of residents’ activities to staff and relevant third parties.
    • Solutions for diverse needs of residents; Our solutions can aid residents with a wide range of needs e.g., People with complex mobility challenges, dementia, traumatic brain injuries, etc.

Positive outcomes for care homes

Automated Spaces offers a variety of Independent Living Technology solutions that can provide a broad range of positive outcomes for those living in a care home:

  • Increased Independence
  • Improved Access to Environment
  • Reduced Risk of Falls
  • Reduced Risk of Long Lie
  • Improved Dignity
  • Maintenance of Personal Health & Hygiene
  • Reduced Risk of Major Flooding Damage
  • Create a Sense of Time of Day/Daily Routine
  • Positively Impact Focus & Cognitive Performance
  • Reduced Power Consumption
  • Reduced Risk of Walking with Purpose late at night
  • Improved Communication with Others
  • Reduced Sense of Loneliness/Social Isolation
  • Reduced Anxiety/Stress
  • Reduced Risk of Sensory Sensitivity Events
  • Reduced Risk of Fires

Some of our Independent Living Technology solutions also can provide the following outcomes for the staff in a care home:

  • Reduced Demand on their Time
  • Increased Quality of Time with Family Member/Friend
  • Reduced Stress/Anxiety
  • Faster Response to Emergency
  • Improved Communication with Service User

If you would like to know more about how we can provide these outcomes

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Independent living technology solutions for your care home(s)

Automated Spaces can provide the following Independent Living Technology solutions for your care home(s):

See the following sections for further details about the independent living technologies for care home providers.

Note:  These independent living technologies are totally modular, you can select just one or combine any number of them, to create the right solution for your care home(s).