Ingrid (79) and Birger Alseth (84) struggle with Parkinson’s disease, but refuses to move out of the home on Øfsti. Using new technology keeps the disease at bay and gets along fine home in detached.
The couple Alseth has attained a respectable age while they struggle with Parkinson’s disease. In order to function in everyday life must tablets taken in the right time and it can be a challenge even for healthy people.
Generally, using a medisineringsdosett but forgets to take medication or mixes dosett with your spouse can medication errors occur. Many hospital admissions of elderly due precisely the wrong medication.
– We are not afraid to try the new technology, says the couple Alseth.
As the first in Stjørdal they started with automatic medicine dosage. In all simplicity the system assumes that alert users with either a light or an alarm when the time is right. By turning dosetten, falling tablet out and alarm / lit turned off.
Marathon Miss
Taking users are not medicine, sent after half an hour an sms message to home care is calling users and memories them that they must take medication.
– I sat and watched the marathon under Athletics Championships, and forgot the whole thing. When they called from home care to remind me to tablets, says Ingrid Alseth.
The challenge for many seniors is that they take different medications and that many pills must be taken at the right time. They apply, among others, those with Parkinson’s disease.
– I had trouble even just by keeping track of four daily antibiotic tablets, admits mayor Ivar Vigdenes, who together with the chairman of the Committee living conditions, Leif Eggen, had made the trip to Alseth along with Project Guri Lyngstad in everyday rehabilitation and Geir Almli of home care in Hegra.
Birger Alseth taking medication four times a day, while the wife must take pills six times a day. Both quantity, quantity and dosage is of course different from patient to patient.
– For us, it has become easier to take it at the right time, says Birger Alseth.
Safer scheme
For Almli in home care, the scheme both time-saving and, not least, far safer.
– We fill up dosetten once a week, and feel that the medication has been safer. The chance that the users forget or mixing medications with your spouse is small with the automated system, says Almli, and estimates that about a third of home care recipients in Hegra a couple of years is going to benefit automatically medisineringsdosett.
The couple Alseth did not hesitate to adopt the new technology in use. They encourage other older to make an effort.
– We wish to stay at home, where we can perform our duties and have our personal belongings around us, they say.
Daily they receive visits from home care, but the couple performs almost all the chores themselves. Birger cliffs including lawn, even if he relies on a walker.
Once all
Stjørdal municipality has purchased automatic medisindosetter so that there is enough for everyone who needs even if the scheme is not supported by NAV.
– Some users experience the new technology as murky and reluctant when they get the offer. We encourage more people to adopt the technology, and the couple Alseth is great example of users who dare to take a chance, says project Lyngstad.
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