Lynn Garrett -NHS & Carers Scotland

Lynn Garrett

Scottish Centre for Telehealth and

Telecare

• When life brings you mountains, you don’t

waste your time asking why; you spend

your time climbing over them.”

• ‘Think only on the climb. Think on what

you control’

• ‘We all climb our own mountain’

Self Directed

SDS is the support a person purchases or arranges to

meet agreed health and social care outcomes.

Choice: An act of choosing between two or more

possibilities.

Self management: Management of or by oneself; the

taking of responsibility for one’s own behaviour and well-

being.

Is it going to be that easy?

Are we victims of our own

success?

• Something has to

change...........

Is technology the answer?

• Telecare

• Telehealth

• Jointly

• Digital health, care and wellbeing

platforms: www.livingitup.org

SmartCare in Scotland aims:

• To improve the health, care and wellbeing of

10,000 people aged 50+ within Ayrshire and the

Clyde Valley.

• Do this through better co-ordination, information

sharing and an improved approach to falls

prevention and management.

• It will fully utilise ICT services and applications

that are vital in supporting integrated care.

• Encourage and promote self management.

• Created with co-design and co-production.

What is it?

• Sits on the Living it Up platform

• Localised by Area

• Falls specific but in a wider health and

care context

• Valid and safe information

• Personal diary

• Personal held file

• Falls self assessment tool

LiU Vision

LiU Services will help transform health, care and wellbeing the same way that the

internet has transformed financial services, social interactions and

information and advice

• Focussed on the person within their community

• Increasing digital inclusion

Portal

What about carers in Scotland

• Provide unpaid care to ill, frail or

disabled family member, friend or

partner

• 660,000 carers – 1 in 8

• 3 in 5 of us will be carers

• Carers save Scotland £10 billion each

year

• 1 million carers in Scotland by 2037

For people who:

share care

Juggle work and care

People with smartphones,

tablets or access to the web

For organisations who:

employ carers or deliver services

to them

Key features

Simple, intuitive

group

communication

Tasks/lists

Calendar

Profile page

Medication list

Contacts page

Benefits of health and care

technology

• Increases wellbeing

• Alleviates stress and pressure

• Improves relationships

• Increases confidence

• Ability to remain or participate in paid

employment/leisure activities

• Increases self management

• Empowers users and carers

DOES NOT replace people:

The sherpa won’t climb for

you, he’ll climb with you.

• If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung

by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up,

set your goals high but take one step at a time.

Sometimes you don't think you're progressing

until you step back and see how high you've

really gone.

For more information contact:

E: [email protected]

www.sctt.scot.nhs.uk

www.livingitup.org.uk

SmartCareScot

SmartCare Scotland

E: [email protected]

W: www.carerscotland.org

www.facebook.com/CarersScotland