With digital transformation projects of all sizes, complexity and ambition being considered or undertaken by housing providers at the moment (see elsewhere in this issue), Housing Technology interviewed senior executives from Appello, Community Fibre, Comparex and Northgate Public Services around the theme of ‘digital transformation – sticking plaster or in-depth surgery?’. Does digital transformation require…
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Embracing the digital switchover
By 2025, analogue telephony services will be switched off completely in the UK. While this may sound alarm bells for housing providers who offer telecare systems (such as pendant alarms and pull cords) to their older residents, we believe it represents an opportunity rather than a threat. While we see this date as a deadline…
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Housing & Care 21 goes digital with Appello
Housing & Care 21 is expanding its provision of digital care at 100 of its supported housing developments based on technology from Appello. Following the introduction of the first Appello digi-care system in 2015, 60 developments are already live, with a further 40 developments planned for installation by April 2018. The retirement housing and extra…
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Monitoring the potential of assisted living
In an article earlier this year, England’s chief nursing officer, Professor Jane Cummings, wrote about the move from self-care to supported self-care. Self-care can mean a variety of things to different people of varying ages and with disparate needs and challenges, whether you are monitoring your fitness and diet or, at the other end of…
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Digital care and the internet of things
Continuing our series of features on the internet of things (IoT), Housing Technology interviewed Appello’s chief technology officer, Carl Atkey, on the digital-care provider’s view on the subject. Why is the internet of things important? From smart toothbrushes that can monitor your dental health to connected cars that know before you do that a part…
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Guinness embraces Appello digital care
Guinness Care is using digital care software from Appello in its 60 new extra-care apartments in Totnes. Residents will benefit from almost instantaneous connections to an alarm receiving centre, and will be able to take advantage of room-to-room calling which can be video enabled to help support social inclusion. Appello’s digital care infrastructure also provides…
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