Falls prevention and detection reducing hospital admissions

The Digitising Adult Social Care team in Surrey Heartlands is using sound and motion sensors, along with artificial intelligence, to monitor care home residents in a bid to better prevent and detect falls in residential and nursing homes. Results from the pilot have seen a 50 per cent reduction in hospital admissions and 57 per cent reduction in total falls.

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