Telecare Services Association

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TA01-SAFE: Telecare and Safeguarding Adults
Alan Clark, Director, SCP Consult

Does Telecare protect the user or does it protect the carer/agency? Is it a convenient shortcut to better quality care? This inter-active workshop will look at whether telecare helps in protecting vulnerable people from abuse, whilst respecting their right to choice and control. Safeguarding should not be ‘implemented’ as a passive intervention for individuals, but rather to empower and support people to protect themselves. People have the right to self-determination and to make informed choices about risk. Avoiding risk altogether is not an option. The safest option may not be the best and would a telecare solution increase the possibility of abuse? How should service users and their families be involved in decisions about risk-taking and the development of robust support plans?
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TA02-VIRT: Virtual Extra Care Project: Virtex
Melinda Phillips, Chief Executive, Housing 21 and Steve Sadler, Chief Technology Officer, Tunstall Healthcare

The UK's Technology Strategy Board is encouraging new approaches to the support for independent-living, through its Assisted Living Innovation Programme. The VirtEx project (short for virtual extra care) is a key thread within this programme, and provides the focus for this workshop. VirtEx has been exploring the creation of connected communities of care. The needs of people who require care and support have been collated, related to community-based services, which in turn are enabled by emergent technologies to create a connected environment. You will be able to sample demonstrations of the technology and services, before engaging in interactive sessions, where we aim to capture your views and priorities.
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TA03-FROM: First Steps to Developing a Telehealth Service (incorporating TA04-VETS: The Vets Experience Close Up)
Professor Russell Jones, Associate Chair, Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Dr Nicholas Robinson, Associate Clinical Director for Long Term Conditions and Telecare, NHS Direct and Janice E Knoefel, MD, MPH, New Mexico Veteran Health Care System, Department of Veterans Affairs and Professor of Medicine (Gerontology) & Neurology, University of New Mexico

The change from telecare to telehealth is a hot topic, and this workshop explores how to develop services, and how services can evolve, using short presentations and interactive discussion. Featured areas for discussion include The Research Base, Developing Telemonitoring Services - the SE Essex Experience, Large Scale Telecoaching and mHeatlh - Mobiles Rule! The TSA will also be discussing how it can help members to develop telehealth services.
The Vets Experience: The Care Coordination – Home Telehealth (CCHT) program is a national Department of Veterans Affairs initiative aimed at improved management of a select group of high mortality, high morbidity illnesses known to require intensive use of expensive resources. The method of data collection, communication between patients and healthcare staff, clinical intervention algorithms and clinical outcomes will be explored. The discussion will focus on two chronic medical conditions, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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