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SINGAPORE: The Centre for Enabled Living (CEL) is looking at a proposal from Touch Community Services to enhance care giving with the aid of technology.
The proposal is a tracking system using RFID technology. Under this project, every household receiving care from Touch will be tagged using an RFID.
This will enable the system to capture the time a staff or volunteer visits the elderly, and will help ensure optimum deployment of staff and volunteers, which the current manual system cannot do.
Incident tags, which will also be read by the RFID reader, will capture information such as falls or requests for medical care.
The information would be automatically sent to Touch headquarters once the RFID readers are collected at the end of each day.
Currently, such information are collected manually. It becomes both expensive and slow to track the progress of clients and their changing care needs.
The RFID system will ensure that the needs of the clients are well monitored. In addition there will be potential for time savings.
This project will potentially benefit at least 400 home help and home care clients in its pilot phase.
The CEL launched a S$1 million fund in September to help cash-strapped organisations with ideas on how to improve the lives of seniors and the disabled.
The centre promotes independent living among persons who need care and their caregivers. - 938LIVE/vm
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