3. Each year in the UK,
up to 1 in 3 (3.4 million)
over 65s suffer a fall, costing
the NHS an estimated
£4.6 million a day
23% of the UK population
is projected to be 65 and over by 2034
1 in 6 people
over the age of 80
is affected by dementia
70% of all inpatient
bed days relate to
a long-term condition
Unpaid care provided by friends
and family to ill, frail or disabled
relatives is worth
£119 million every year
More than 15.4 million people
in England live with a long-term
condition, and this is expected to
rise to 18 million by 2025
UK perspective – what is the role for technology enabled care?
Social Care funding gap
projected to reach £2.1bn
by 2019/20
4. Lord Darzi Review of Health & Social Care, 2018 -
https://www.ippr.org/research/publications/darzi-review-interim-
report
UK perspective – demand pressures
5. Budget Survey: Assistive Tech. & Savings
www.local.gov.uk
Source: ADASS 2018 Budget Survey
93% of Directors of Social Care to the ADASS Budget Survey in 2018 said that assistive technology was quite or very important in making financial savings (3rd
highest
area)
6. UK perspective – changing landscape of technology provision
• 1.7m Telecare users – largely community alarms – button and box, analogue
• Predominantly dwelling focused – independence in the home v accessing the community
• Push from technology suppliers rather than pull from commissioners/’users and choosers’ –
limited self-purchase activity and stifling innovation
• Referrals in general have focused on prescriber model/selection of equipment and not on
outcomes/risks or benefits tracking
• Vast majority of service activity has been reactive – responding to incoming alerts and not
delivering proactive interventions
• Too often basic alarm services and Telecare has not included mobile response – users could
be left waiting for ambulances for hours after a non-injury fall
Lessons to be learnt
7. Technology is a key enabler for self-care, supporting people to
invest in their future independence and a driver for demand
management within health and social care
Opportunities from a shift to digital solutions
9. The Connected Resident – Enabling Positive Ageing
Rit
a
Acute
Primary care
CCGs
National
datasets
Family
/carers
Additional
Services
Social care
and Public
Health
Housing
Community
care
Service users, patients, carers – must not be in position of leaving
their everyday technology at the door when engaging with
Telecare services
10. Data analytics & machine learning to support
practitioners
Using lifestyle monitoring to support informed decision making
– promoting positive risk taking backed by data
‘Just enough support’ rather than ‘just in case support’
11. People/culture aspects underpin the systems/process
approach – providing sustainability to achieving efficiencies.
Sustainability will not be achieved without on-going support
of frontline staff to embed cultural change.
To achieve cost reduction/avoidance savings, services need to
develop the technology offer around the following principle:
Creating a technology first culture and positioning technology at a
strategic level
12. Positioning technology correctly delivers cost avoidance and
cashable results
• Evaluations across 39 councils, initially led by the Department of Health in England,
identified average annual savings of £1,163 gross / £890 net per user
• Feedback from Hampshire Council demonstrates annual savings (including cost
avoidance) of circa £840 net per user (£7.1 million net savings over 4 years supporting
9,750 service users)
• London Borough of Havering have avoided £938k of cost relating to care home
admission as well as £2.24 million from a 44% reduction in hospital admissions due to
falls
• By embedding technology within reablement and ongoing support, the evidence from
Dudley MBC is that Personal Budgets are 8% smaller when Telecare is included
(average £800 per user reduction)
• Feedback from Lancashire Council highlights that 46% of the c.8,000 Telecare users (all
Care Act eligible) are only receiving Telecare to support their needs; 34% have Telecare
and home care, with an average care package cost of £627 less per person per year
than those receiving a home care package without Telecare
Socail care facing a huge funding gap
Population getting older, living longer with more and more long term conditions
There are issues around demand management so what is the role that technology can play for delaying the need for more formal services
We are now at the point on the chart where there are more people over 65 than under 16
We are haing less children
How do we introduce wellness technology far earlier to ensure people have a need for support far later
This is not just happening here in the UK but look at the Dutch model, look at Sweden, a lot of their work is using technology to delay entry into care services
There is a huge gap in terms of the amount of carers, its not seen by people as a long term career path, this is not to say that technology will replace all formal care but there may be instances where technology can alert if there is an issue
Every year ADASS carry out a survey, what is interesting this year,
Technology is quite or very important in making financial savings
Majority of that saving is cost avoidance, technology is not there to make savings on existing embedded older peoples’ packages of care, that care has become a dependency for them
However, huge opportunity to support people from a prevention point of view, in hospital discharge and in reablement
It is relevant to talk about where we have come from and where we are now
1.7 million has remained static, majority is button and box on telephone line, the pendant with the big red button and a range of sensors
The majority of people supported by the LA authority with technology will receive this type of service
Majority is designed to keep people safe in their own home but not in the community
Technology has moved on quite quickly, commissioners do not necessarily have the experience of the sector and procurement decisions can be guided by the supplier
From a front line perspective, the question is often what equipment do you want rather than w needs and outcomes or risks such as addressing wandering, epilepsy etc…
Model is reactive, pendant press, address the issue, take the next call. There is very little analysis and proactiveity to understand trends over time and take positive action with regards to exercise, hydration, nutrition or just get in touch to prevent social isolation
Lots of services do not have a mobile response, even though someone may already have been identified as vulnerable
The opportunities around digital transition are significant
Average UK home 29 connected devices by 2020
Smart TV, Smart Speaker, Watches, etc…
Water meter will already be able to provide trends as to water usage from shower / kettle
In homes with people of a certain age, can issues be identified which may indicate an increased rsk of UTI or fall
Technology is the easy bit,
We engage with people at crisis
We try and fit the technology in there, adding it on to an existing care package
In shifting the conversation, we are talking about getting technology into reablement, working with GPs about the patients they are worried about being at the risk of UTI, on the cusp of admission, how can we support them:
The cost of the indivual and the system for UTI is significant – average stay in hospital is 7 days for person over 65 with UTI, for those individuals staying in hospital for 10 days, they have lost 10% of their muscle mass
Solutions that are working around the UK include where a simple wrist worn device, some buetooth scales and a grip strength meter used once per week can predict increased falls risk weeks in advance
One area choose to invest in thermal imagining homes from the street, overlaying ONS data and social care date to understand older males living alone in colder houses unknown to social care
There will soon be more people in the UK owning a smart speaker than the 1.7 million in receipt of telecare
Speaker devices can link to apps, they can link to a range of devices that can provide alerts, links can be made to video screens, in some parts of the UK, direct payments are being spread further by the use of a combination of face to face and virtual visits
It is important to think about how the technology of the future can link into the commissioning of the future, yes, safety critical is important but engagement f the public in this area is equally so
In 2025, BT Openreach witching off analogue lines
Argos sell low level aids, Avivia invest in tech as part of their insurance packages, vitality is giving away echo dots and deals on smart watches
The data sde is crucial, understanding changes to peoples activities of daily living
This information can help to let people know when to step forward and when to step back
Perfect in reablement
Recently carried out a study in a south west authority around using sensrs for clients recently left hospital, variety of outomes including reduced and increased care