The elderly are the people with high incidence of diseases. According to the survey of the Ministry of Health, the incidence rate of the elderly is 3-4 times higher than that of young adults, and the hospitalization rate is 2 times higher. More than 10 million people are unable to take care of themselves due to illness and old age. With such a huge number, how to improve the quality of elderly care in the current situation of shortage of elderly care personnel?
1. Difficulties in elderly care
For the elderly, in addition to eating, bathing and other problems in the daily nursing process, we should pay more attention to the nursing of heart rate changes, body position changes, bed fall accidents and other aspects. These nursing work makes the working pressure of nursing staff very high, and also leads to fewer people engaged in elderly care. Therefore, the intensity and pressure of nursing work is higher than that of other industries for family nursing and elderly care institutions. At night, the proportion of heart disease and bed fall accidents in the elderly is also very high. Even strengthening the night patrol can not completely avoid such problems.
These difficulties in the actual work process also promote the upgrading and research and development of scientific and technological means.
2. Internet of Things technology helps intelligent elderly care, and continuously monitors the physical signs of the elderly 24 hours
The “vital sign monitoring system” of Plus1Health uses products such as terminal smart mattresses to provide 24-hour continuous monitoring for the elderly in bed, which can monitor the changes of vital sign data in many aspects such as the elderly’s breathing, heart rate, and leaving bed.
2.1 Through the intelligent mattress, the elderly’s heart rate, respiratory rate, body movement, turning over and leaving bed can be dynamically and continuously collected, analyzed and counted;
2.2 Connect to the platform through the Internet of Things, and the platform will standardize and transform the received physical sign data, so as to realize bed monitoring and real-time alarm of abnormal events;
2.3 To achieve the purpose of monitoring in bed, the analysis report will be automatically inserted into the nursing record to provide new data support for the formulation of nursing measures;
2.4 Assess the health risks of the elderly through continuous monitoring and analysis of their physical signs and turnover;
2.5 Master the physical signs of the elderly and their state of leaving bed at any time to reduce the workload of night ward rounds.
The vital signs monitoring pad uses piezoelectric film sensing technology, which can monitor the heart rate, respiratory rate and other vital signs of people in bed without direct contact with people. It can also monitor the state of being out of bed, body movement, sleep quality, and protect the health and safety of the elderly and high-risk groups in real time. The monitoring data is accurate and displayed in the background software in real time. In case of any abnormal situation, an alarm will be sent in time to inform the nursing staff to intervene in time.
Use the Internet of Things technology to provide intelligent nursing services, reduce the workload of nursing staff, serve the elderly care industry, and create a new model of future elderly care services.
At present, the product can be used in institutions such as nursing homes and nursing communities.
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