This whitepaper outlines current technological advancements in the technology-enabled care (TEC) sector, supporting the transition from reactive alarm-based service models to more valuable and proactive approaches that help individuals live their lives to the fullest. It summarises the series of articles we published on the future of technology-enabled care: A brief history of technology-enabled care […]

This series of articles began with a brief primer on the history of social alarms and telecare and was followed by an overview of the current care technology landscape in the UK. We went on to discuss how technology enabled care is changing due to the adoption of digital technologies – including, the move away […]

As TEC services move away from focussing solely on detecting and responding to alarms and become more data-led, the role of monitoring, and the coordination of interventions, will need to change. This will have an impact on the role of the monitoring centre, the traditional hub of existing telecare services, potentially changing their operating model. […]

Technology enabled care services are currently going through a significant period of change due to the digital switchover of telecommunications networks in the UK. This has major implications for alarm-based telecare, as existing analogue products and platforms are not optimised for use with these new fully digital (IP-based) networks. As legacy analogue telecare products are […]

In our previous article, we presented a landscape review of technology-enabled care (TEC) in the UK. It described five generations of TEC that began with basic reactive alarm services for risk management, and which have evolved into a data-led approach, enabling proactive and predictive models of support that can provide timely and context-aware interventions. We […]

A previous article discussed the origins of technology-enabled care, focussing on telecare services and how they evolved to become a relatively stand-alone reactive alarm-based ‘safety-net’, centred around a monitoring service. This article presents a brief overview of the current care technology landscape in the UK and discusses how it is changing in response to the […]

This article is the first in a series focussing on the changes and challenges facing the UK’s technology-enabled care (TEC) sector. The series will explore how commissioners and service providers must rethink how they design and deliver services that use technology to help people live independently and on their own terms. We begin with a […]