In the ProCurand Senior citizens' residence Am Straussee was recently filmed for RTL Punkt 12 Mittagsjournal on the subject of „Artificial intelligence in care“. The reason: our Strausberg facility is taking part in a pilot or test phase of Livy Care. In the dementia area, the ceiling of 20 care rooms has been fitted with a sensor. Livy Care is an intelligent room sensor that can record falls and recognise calls for help.
If residents fall or leave their room during the night, Livy Care immediately sends an alarm signal to the mobile phones of the nursing staff on duty. Of course, this makes their work much easier, as the carers on the night shift make regular rounds of the facility but may be somewhere else entirely. This means they can rush to help more quickly. Livy Care also recognises calls for help. For example, if residents go to the toilet, fall and call for help, the sensor, which can be customised, reacts. Furniture and beds can be marked so that no alarm is signalled if the resident is lying on the bed or sofa. It is also possible to set times when Livy Care is inactive. And anyone who is concerned about the privacy of residents can rest assured. The sensor does not create any image or video recordings and the data is analysed in pixelated and completely anonymised form. „If Wi-Fi in our facilities also reaches the residents“ rooms, it would make perfect sense to set up Livy Care everywhere. But that's still a long way off at the moment. At some point, however, it will be part of the room equipment as a matter of course," says Daniel Hahn, Digitalisation and Project Management Officer.
A four-person team consisting of a camerawoman, sound recordist, reporter and assistant first interviewed Janin Tiedemann, the head of the facility - while she was walking! „I saw the camerawoman walking backwards in front of Mrs Tiedemann and thought: that's a challenge,“ says Daniel Hahn. But Janin Tiedemann didn't lose her cool and answered all the reporters' questions professionally - as if she had never done anything else! The TV crew then visited a resident who lives in a room with a test sensor. The plan was only to interview the relative, but the resident with dementia had a good day and enthusiastically took part.
And finally, the reporter had a fall (re-enacted, of course) and care service manager Kevin Koch received the emergency signal on his mobile phone - just as it should be. The people from Strausberg did a great job, thank you very much - and don't switch to television, ProCurand still needs you! The broadcast date has not yet been fixed, but will of course be announced in good time as soon as ProCurand is informed by the TV production.
