Tunstall Vitaris offers tailored, integrated telecare and connected health solutions
Nursing homes
Tunstall’s solutions evolve alongside the challenges faced by nursing homes. Drawing on decades of experience of the everyday difficulties encountered in these settings, its research and development engineers have created effective, practical systems that can integrate with existing infrastructure and evolve to meet future needs.
To broaden their services, some nursing homes add serviced senior living accommodation to their facilities or provide support for people living at home.
Others include specialist units for older people who require intensive care and ongoing attention, such as Alzheimer’s care units, or temporary support such as day care.
Tunstall provides intelligent communication between residents and care staff, whatever the type of facility or its organisation.
Hospitals and clinics
A hospital or clinic’s nurse call system is essential for patients, nurses, technical teams and management alike.
Tunstall aims to ensure that a call reaches the right person at the right time.
One challenge is managing and maintaining equipment from multiple brands within a hospital. A new-generation nurse call system needs an open platform that can integrate information from external systems and allow equipment to be replaced progressively at a lower cost.
Choosing attractive equipment for a new or refurbished facility can also contribute to better working conditions by making it more pleasant for staff to use each day.
Senior living residences
Living independently for as long as possible is the everyday goal supported by Tunstall’s solutions for older people. Services provided in senior living residences contribute to wellbeing while meeting safety requirements.
An adaptable, all-in-one solution equipped with a video intercom terminal can prepare a home for added safety, comfort and services, with further applications introduced over time.
The solutions:
- Carecom
- Flamenco
- Concento+
- Connected door handle
Independent living residences
The aim is to help people maintain their independence and autonomy for as long as possible, at home or in shared residential settings, by making services and wellbeing solutions easier to access. In France, independent living residences known as résidences autonomie support this way of life. Under France’s law on adapting society to an ageing population, these residences must provide residents with safety support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
This legal framework requires facilities to adapt their organisation and budgets, for example when staffing is limited at night or at weekends, or when temporarily accommodating people with varying support needs. Many independent living residences therefore choose a comprehensive residential telecare service to replace a traditional nurse call or patient call system.
Tunstall offers both a nurse call system and a telecare service for all residents.
It also offers a combined solution that handles residents’ emergency calls according to the situation:
- Whether on-call staff are on or off site, and whether they cover one or several facilities, they receive identified alerts on their smartphones so they can assess the situation before attending
- When staff are unavailable, residents’ alarms are handled by Tunstall France’s monitoring and assistance centre, certified to ISO and NF home telecare standards.
The Tunstall system gives site managers greater flexibility, with the reassurance that every resident who requests help will receive a response. Whether the operator is an association or a municipal social welfare centre (CCAS), funding arrangements can also be tailored to different budgets, from purchase to rental with maintenance.