Intouch can help reduce unscheduled hospital admissions and length of stay thanks to its innovative self-care education software.

 

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Reducing Crisis Care amongst Older Patients

ambulanceIllness and accidents amongst older people not only result in unscheduled hospital admissions, but often in other forms of crisis care, such as residence in a care home, and the loss of independence which often goes with this. These events are an enormous drain on health and social care budgets. Staywell 75 is an education programme designed to give older people good basic advice on keeping healthy and accident free, while at the same time identifying to health and social care workers which Staywell participants are most at risk of needing crisis care. Timely interventions can then be made to try and avert the dangers.

Falls Prevention

Intouch’s Going Strong Falls Prevention education programme is a valuable asset for older people to use themselves, and is comprehensive enough to be used as a training aid for staff. It was developed by Barts & the London and adapted and enhanced for use online by Intouch who are sole distributor of this programme. It is also designed to work on touch-screen kiosks and on DVD.