More and more people relying on Telecare

An increasing number of people are turning to elderly home health care in the form of telecare. This revolutionary service allows elderly people to enjoy independent living, while giving their children complete peace of mind. Call4Care is the top telecare company in South Africa that provides telecare alarm systems to assist in an emergency. The service allows someone to always be on hand for your loved ones and you can rest safe in the fact that they are highly trained in determining the right course of action to take during an incident.

There are a number of success stories regarding this technology, one of which comes from Madge Teesdale in east Cleveland. The 78-year-old woman is completely deaf in one ear and partially deaf in the other. Because of this, she did not hear her smoke alarm going off after a stove fire erupted in her kitchen. Luckily for her, she came into the kitchen to find four firemen there to put out the fire.

"I had a chip pan fire. I had left it on the cooker on a very low light. I thought it was off. The next thing I knew there were these firemen in my kitchen," she told the Northern Echo.

Elderly folk who are living alone and are not in the best of health are prone to a number of life-threatening incidents at their home, and this is why telecare is becoming an increasingly popular form of protecting them from danger.

"After the fire, they came out and put lots of electronic sensors in my bungalow. It means that if there is a fire, or if I leave the gas on or if the heating breaks down, I will get a call through my intercom to see if I am all right," she added, regarding the new telecare system installed in her home.

Added to this, Madge even has a sensor under her mattress which will alert the call centre if she gets up during the night and doesn't return to her bed within a set amount of time. There have been instances in the past where elderly people have had to lay in pain until the morning when their caregiver came in to find them there.

To find out more about telecare technology or elderly home health care, contact a representative at Call4Care today.

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