The Nobi Smart Lamp, an AI-powered piece of AgeTech, is revolutionising fall prevention and detection in care homes across Europe, the US, New Zealand, and now in the UK as well. This innovative technology has been in use since May of this year as part of a pilot project funded by NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) at Hartland House in Cumbria, and was installed and maintained by our UK distributor: Porters Care.
In this collaboration, the Nobi lamps have already shown a significant impact on the lives of residents and care staff at Hartland House, a residential care facility with 31 rooms in Milnthorpe (Cumbria).
The smartest lamp in the world in action
The Ai powered smart lamps detect 100% of falls and offer preventative measures that have led to a huge reduction in falls at Hartland House.
Fall prevention as the new fall detection
Nobi reduces falls by 84%
62% of falls happen at night. To respond to this, when a resident sits upright in bed at night Nobi will shine soft light upwards to gently illuminate the room. Then if the person stands up, to go to the bathroom, for example, the smart lamp will illuminate the entire room.
Automated lighting helps prevent numerous falls
Further to this, preventative alerts can be set up for frequent fallers to let care staff know when they sit up in bed. This means that carers can reach the resident before they attempt to get out of bed unaided. This way, Nobi helps care staff with a small, human intervention at the right moment to prevent falls that could have potentially huge life-threatening impacts.
The final piece of the puzzle is fall analysis. Should a fall occur the lamp sends care staff an abstract stick figure image of the resident’s position in the room and captures the 15 seconds of footage preceding and following the fall. Using this information the system can illuminate the cause of falls, empowering staff with the knowledge that they need to implement preventative strategies.
Building a clear picture
In order to prevent falls in care homes, first we need a full clear picture of the number of falls that are occurring, and the causes.
Academic research indicates that when the oldest elderly fall and cannot get up independently, only 20% manage to use a traditional nurse call system for help.
Effectiveness of regular nurse call systems
At Hartland House, the statistics aligned with academic findings, with 82% of the elderly residents unable to use the nurse call system. This means that if a resident falls in the night and cannot call for help they could be on the floor until care staff make their scheduled rounds to check on them. This could be anything up to 2 hours.
Rapid response to a fall can be life-saving. The Nobi lamp detects 100% of falls and alerts care staff immediately. This has led to a huge reduction in the average response time at Hartland House, falling from 57 minutes to under 2 minutes.
Rapid post-fall aid saves lives
Carers with Nobi provide help 28 times faster
Speaking about the impact of falls, Nobi CEO, Roeland Pelgrims said:
"Falls are the biggest cause of hospitalisation in the elderly so they are already a huge issue, causing a massive burden on the NHS. Nobi aims to revolutionise the sector by dramatically reducing falls in care homes and eliminating long lie falls completely. AgeTech has a role to play in arming care staff with the information they need to make informed, proactive decisions to support their residents and keep them living well.”
Deborah Gent, adult social care digital lead for NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB said:
“We have been very happy with preliminary results from the pilot programme with Hartland House and the Nobi lamps. Seeing the impact that this technology could have on our elderly population, and the health service in the region, is really exciting and we look forward to working with Nobi in the future to help our elderly population.”
Conclusion
Implementing the smart Nobi lamps at Hartland House has led to positive results. With 100% effective fall detection, swift response time and proactive fall prevention measures, Nobi significantly changed the care home’s fall detection and prevention approach. It ensures a renewed sense of safety for residents, peace of mind for families, saves time for employees and provides higher job satisfaction.
Do you want to know more about Nobi’s smart lamps and AgeTech solutions? Head over to www.nobi.life. Reach out to Rob Fedrick and discover how Nobi can help your residential care facility improve your employees’ quality of care and job satisfaction as it did for Hartland House.