A project to remotely monitor the home habits of vulnerable adults has won a £1m government grant to help it expand.
Reading Borough Council has spent nine months testing movement sensors for several social care clients living independently.
The monitors can detect changes in routine such as meals being missed or more visits to the bathroom, it said.
The project is one of the first four to benefit from the government's Adults Social Care Technology Fund.
Ian Trenholm, chief executive of the care regulator the Care Quality Commission has said that the profitability of care homes remained at ‘historically low levels’ in 2022/23. Using information from i
The government has increased funding for adult social care to help tackle NHS pressures this winter by £10m. Councils will be able to bid from a pot of £40m – up from £30m – for cash to help prevent h
Some self-funders are going without some of the home care they needed because of the cost of living crisis and increased provider fees. Staffing shortages are resulting in providers deprioritising les