An Early Warning and Emergency Response Service to Keep Older People Safe and Healthy at Home

Amba是一个护理和健康监测系统，旨在帮助老年人在家中保持安全和健康。如果出现问题，Amba会自动向护理人员和家庭成员提供早期警告和紧急警报。在可能发生紧急情况的情况下，一名合格的专业护理人员立即被派往他们家中。老年人容易受到疾病和事故的影响，如果没有及时发现，这些疾病和事故可能会改变生活。跌倒或感染的早期发现可能是简单治疗，长期住院或死亡之间的区别。不幸的是，正如正式研究和轶事证据所显示的那样，老年人通常不愿意或无法寻求帮助，即使在紧急情况下也是如此。Amba持续被动地监测各种指标，并在出现问题时自动提供早期预警和紧急警报。他们只是像往常一样过着他们的日常生活。没有什么可以穿或携带。没有什么可学或记住的。唯一不同的是，如果出现问题，他们会注意到亲戚或护理专业人员偶尔打来的电话，如果他们没有回应，专业的紧急护理人员会出现在现场。Amba使用的连接设备是领先的高品质产品，全球数百万挑剔的消费者都在使用。一旦集成到Amba平台中，它们使Amba Carer应用程序能够支持广泛且不断增长的紧急和预测警报：* 被动，故障安全，家庭跌倒检测 * 可能的感染/发烧 * 预测火灾危险警告 * 营养和水合问题 * 睡眠不足或不规律 * 呼吸和心血管健康问题在现场测试中，Amba原型与三个市场领先的TEC系统（英国数十万人使用的那种）一起实施。在现场测试的过程中，Amba检测到两个真实的，危及生命的紧急情况，并提出了警报，而市场领先的系统未能检测到任何问题或提出任何形式的警报。我们的项目将在100名老年人的家中试点Amba系统，以便：* 发现这些结果是否可以大规模复制;* 确认我们可以设置系统，而无需访问用户的家庭;* 开发和测试最有用的设置，以保护自我孤立的老年人;* 收集照顾者，老年人和亲属的反馈;* 必要时集成额外的设备。

Amba is a care and health monitoring system to help older people to stay safe and well in their homes. Amba automatically provides early warnings and emergency alerts to carers and family members if something seems amiss. In the event of a possible emergency, a qualified professional carer is immediately despatched to their home.?Older people are vulnerable to illnesses and accidents which can have a life changing impact if they are not detected quickly enough. Early detection of a fall or an infection can be the difference between a simple treatment, a long stay in hospital, or death. Unfortunately, older people are often reluctant or unable to ask for help, even in an emergency, as both formal research and anecdotal evidence show.Amba continuously and passively monitors a wide range of indicators and automatically provides early warnings and emergency alerts if something is amiss. They simply go about their daily life as usual. There is nothing to wear or carry. Nothing to learn or remember. The only difference they will notice is an occasional call from a relative or a care professional if something isn't right - and a specialist emergency carer appearing on site if they don't respond.The connected devices which are used by Amba are leading high-quality products, in use by millions of discerning consumers worldwide. Once integrated into the Amba Platform they enable the Amba Carer App to support a wide and growing range of both emergency and predictive alerts:* passive, fail safe, in-home fall detection* possible infection/fever* predictive fire hazard warning* nutrition and hydration problems* poor or irregular sleep difficulties* respiratory and cardiovascular health problemsIn live testing, the Amba prototype was implemented alongside three of the market leading TEC systems (of the kind used by hundreds of thousands of people in the UK). Over the course of the live test, Amba detected two real, life threatening emergencies and raised the alarm, whereas the market leading systems failed to detect any problem or raise any kind of alert.Our project will pilot the Amba system in the homes of 100 older people in order to:* Discover if these results can be reproduced at scale;* Confirm we can set up the system without visiting the users home;* Develop and test the most useful settings to protect self-isolating older people;* Gather feedback from carers, older people and relatives;* Integrate additional devices as necessary.