Test and Learn Pilots

There are 9 spaces available for this test and learn.

Overview

We are carrying out a test and learn pilot across South Quadrant exploring the use of a monitoring and response service attached to an app on a mobile phone. This offers a welfare check option for residents and allows the opportunity to call for help to either family/friends and or a carer or through to our monitoring and response service by using existing technology they may have. It has a GPS location feature so we can locate individuals and get someone to them.

We are trialling this across a range of cohorts and age groups from young people with Learning Disability who are not confident travelling to higher education or workplace through to older people who may have had a fall and lost confidence.

Criteria

Seeking service users over the age of 18 in either the Learning Disability or Older Person cohort who want to trial an app based careline.

Must have their own Android phone.

Area

South Essex

Contact Name

Craig Archer

Useful links: OystaCare App; Social Care Tech for Vulnerable Independent People (oysta-technology.com)

All 316 pilot devices have been deployed across North Essex, we are in the process completing an evaluation and a final report will be produced in April 2024.

Overview

Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board secured funding under an accelerator programme to look at how the Digital Social Care Fund could work.

Essex focused on falls prevention and detection equipment across 4 different settings including People in the community, Sheltered Housing, Extra Care housing and Care homes.

Using the Essex Vulnerability Matrix we identified the falls hotspots across North East Essex and collaborated with Tendering and Colchester District Councils, Community 360 and North East Essex CCG to target the final cohort who could benefit from this type of Technology.

Partnering with Vayyar a supplier to test a falls detection solution that uses 4D imaging to detect falls and track activity. It doesn’t require any wearable devices and is flexible for cohorts with cognition and memory but also those with dexterity. This device a non-intrusive option for monitoring daily activity.

Having the data on a dashboard enables professionals involved in the individual’s support to have evidence-based conversations and to dismiss misconceptions. It enables a change in the way care is delivered, shifting from a ‘crisis management’ to a ‘proactive care’ model.

Criteria

People in the community, Sheltered Housing, Extra Care housing and Care homes experiencing high falls or A&E admissions.

Area

North East Essex

Contact Name

Ross Chipperfield

Useful links: Senior Care Technology Based On RF Sensing | Vayyar Care

The Sentai pilot started January 2024 and we still have the majority of devices to deploy.

Overview

Sentai uses a motion sensor, hub, and Amazon Alexa and provides reminders, AI-powered conversation, and monitors the activity of those who receive care.

Sentai would allow closer communication between the adults and their support network, as well as offering regular well-being checks and reminders that will offer peace of mind to friends and family. It also offers emergency alert facilities to let the support network know if something is not right. This will hopefully reduce the need for the full term of reablement, due to increased independence and greater support and involvement from informal care networks.

During the six-month pilot, we hope the pilot will improve independence, give more information and responsibility to the resident’s support circle and support a reduction in length of stay in the service allowing more residents to benefit from the reablement service.

Criteria

20 Sentai kits are being trialled with Essex Cares Limited reablement service for those with low-level needs coming out of hospital.

Must have WI-FI
No existing Careline

Area

West Essex

Contact Name

Simon Williams

Useful links: Sentai – The voice enabled digital care solution.

The Hybrid Care pilot started in February 2024 and is for Tier 1 providers.

Overview

A 6-month pilot with Vocala exploring the concept of a Hybrid Care model. We want to free up people to do the tasks that people are better at and use technology for other tasks where possible this does not mean replacing all visits with this offer but to compliment care delivery where appropriate and free up face to face visits for those that really need it. From our early insights the types of visits which could be in scope for this offer could include; shopping, wellbeing, medication, and low-level prompting calls.

The Technology could potentially introduce a new role in the care market which would be a virtual carer which is more attractive to the younger generation but this could be delivered by the voluntary sector or a Social Prescriber instead of Dom Care.

This pilot will scope what good looks like in a future model of care framework including costing and the technology required to support a hybrid care model. The learning from this project will feed into the re-commissioning of our Live at Home framework in 2025.

Criteria:

Tier 1 provider operating in Braintree, Mid Essex.

Area:

Mid Essex

Contact Name:

Ellie Anderson

Useful links:

Vocala - Alexa Skills, Voice Development, London, UK

Overview

A nine-month pilot will start in February 2024 with Essex Cares Limited, to look at the use of short-term monitoring equipment in the reablement service. Daily monitoring equipment will be given to individuals coming out of hospital as part of their reablement package. The equipment will be used to monitor daily living, using sensors (and other relevant care technologies if required), and enable the care provider to enhance their data-lead reablement package by the increased visibility of an adult’s progress.

The data will be used to support decision making around length of stay in reablement and support the provider to eliminate risk when reducing packages and capture potential signs earlier to avoid unnecessary readmissions to hospital, for example more frequent bathroom trips could be a sign of a UTI, lack of accessing medication storage would indicate non-compliance with course of treatment etc.

At the end of the reablement period, the individual will be assessed for ongoing needs which would include care technologies being prescribed by the care provider to support the individual to remain living independently in their own home. This again frees up capacity in the wider care market to support with more intensive levels of need including handover from reablement and promotes a personalised approach to the individual while supporting all elements of daily living.

The results from the pilot will be able shape thinking of what a future Intermediate Care offer could look like supported by Technology.

Criteria

10 Monitoring kits will be used with Essex Cares Limited reablement service.

Area

North Essex

Contact Name:

Ross Chipperfield

Useful links: Anthropos Pro

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