Mom's Safety Net Fall Detection
GUARANTEES MOM'S PRIVACY
- Rapid and accurate fall detection
- Requires no change in mom's behavior or any action by mom
- Mom's privacy is 100% protected
ACCURATE AND RELIABLE FALL DETECTION
- Highly accurate AI/deep-learning fall detection algorithm detects the act of falling.
- Detects falls within any environment
- Provides rapid caregiver notification
ONLY APP PROVIDING RAPID EMERGENCY RESPONSE
- The Fall App enables a caregiver to text emergency personnel a photo or video of the senior in distress
- Photo or video verification eliminates false alarms and raises the emergency response level
Fall App Versatility
STAND ALONE OR SMART HOME INTEGRATION
The Fall App can operate as a stand-alone system can be integrate Into a smart home system.
Similarly, the Fall App can be integrated within the surveillance systems operating within assisted living, nusring and memor care facilities.
Similarly, the Fall App can be integrated within the surveillance systems operating within assisted living, nusring and memor care facilities.
MEDICATION IMPACT ON FALLS
On a fee-for-service basis, Mom's Safety Net provides a Medication Fall Impact Analysis. It includes...
* a review of the impact on falls by high risk medications, drug-drug interactions, drug side effects and drug-disease interactions.
* recommended medication changes to be discussed with the senior's physician.
* a review of the impact on falls by high risk medications, drug-drug interactions, drug side effects and drug-disease interactions.
* recommended medication changes to be discussed with the senior's physician.
CDC STEADI PROGRAM
CDC STEADI (Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths and Injuries) documents provide healthcare professionals and caregivers wjth actionable.information on fall screening options, case studies and conversation starters. Two downloadable caregiver docs are..
Family Caregivers: Protect Your Loved Ones from Falling Check for Safety brochure
Family Caregivers: Protect Your Loved Ones from Falling Check for Safety brochure
Wearables Don't Work!
APPLE WATCH FALL DETECTION EVALUATION
PENDANT FALL DETECTION DEVICES
A popular fall detection device is wearable fall sensor (e.g. a pendant) or a smart watch. It measures body movements and position and attempts to differentiate between everyday movements and a fall. There are several significant problems with wearables...
- Seniors forget or refuse to wear the sensor. As noted by Alex Mihailidis, the Barbara G. Stymiest Research Chair in Rehabilitation Technology at the University of Toronto and Toronto Rehab Institute, within his keynote speech at the 2018 International Gerontechnology Conference - most seniors not only forget to put on their wearable (or as illustrated by the photo) they don’t want to, for fear of being labelled.
- Wearables have relatively poor performance in sensor accuracy. As summed up by Top Ten Reviews in a 2017 review (there has been no independent testing of smart watches)… On average, devices detected about 75 percent of falls. While fall detection is a great addition to a medical alert system, you should not heavily rely on it but instead think of it as a backup. No fall detection sensor is or claims to be 100 percent accurate, and it is always best to push your alert button if able.
- Wearables and call for help devices such as Alexa don't help the most at-risk seniors. Seniors at-risk are those who suffer a brain injury (about 10% of fall victims) and seniors with mild cognitive impairment and dementia. Although the latter group is only 27% of the senior population, they account for almost 50% of senior falls. When a cognitively impaired senior falls, they are often confused and don't remember how to get help. Another major disadvantage of wearables and call for help devices is that they lack photo or video verificiation, which is required for an alert to receive a high-priority response by emergency personnel.
