How to Empower Independent Living for A Loved one
Are your parent’s or a loved one part of the 90% of older adults who want to stay in their homes as they age?
Often, people hear ‘aging in place’ and immediately think accessibility. Aging in place is about more than ramps and grab bars. It’s about making a home safe, comfortable, and suited to the person / people who live there and technology is an important component, especially for long-distance caregiving.
For many older adults aging in place, technology offers not just the tools they need to continue to live at home, but newfound confidence and connectedness with faraway family and friends.
In fact, technology is changing how older adults are aging here in the U.S.. Technology is not only keeping our elders safe, but closely related to that; it’s allowing them to be independently safe.
Discrete But Comprehensive Monitored Independence
Four out of five older adults would prefer to stay at home even if they began to need day-to-day assistance however, the challenge for families and caregivers is: how to empower independent living for as long as possible, without sacrificing peace of mind?
Alarm.com has the answer. They’ve created a specialized smart home solution called Wellness. It’s technology that is smart enough to monitor a person’s overall quality of life and provides a vital safety net. It’s a 24/7 link that keeps an eye on things to proactively detect changes in behavior, and emergencies.
Alarm.com’s intuitive smartphone app, with real-time alerts, gives you, the caregiver, a discreet, around-the-clock connection that enables you to know about and respond to immediate needs quickly. Fueled by activity patterns, awareness, alerts, security and automation, and integrates with wearables including pendants – the Wellness System is comprehensive monitoring.
The Alarm.com Wellness System even alerts you if there’s an unsafe situation like a door left open late at night, and it also provides the reassurance that a loved one is up and about as they should be during the daytime.
Convenient Smart Home Automation
Enjoy peace of mind that comes with being in the know whether you live across town or across the country, without impacting your loved one’s independence. Unlike emergency pendants and wearables, Wellness by Alarm.com uniquely reports changes in sleeping and eating patterns, bathroom visit frequency and medication adherence, as well as emergent situations and will proactively alert loved ones and caregivers.
The Wellness System connects security sensors, lights, locks, thermostats and video, as well as bed sensors, alert but
tons and sensors for medicine cabinets and refrigerators, enabling discreet but comprehensive monitoring of your loved one’s home.
The Wellness System also takes care of everyday tasks around the home. Easy rules and schedules automatically adjust lights, thermostats, locks and security. Your loved one doesn’t have to remember to turn lights on or off, or lock the door every night.
Alarm.com’s Wellness System is delivered through Alarm.com’s nationwide network of authorized service providers. Wellness is also compatible with the latest in hands-free voice control. With Amazon Echo and Google Home, it’s easy and simple to control things around the home.
Whether you live across the street, across the state or across the country and are caring for a parent or a loved one and are looking for discreet but comprehensive monitoring without impacting your loved one’s independence – then do checkout the Wellness System by Alarm.com – and gain peace of mind.
To find out more, visit the Alarm.com Wellness page here.
