What is Assistive Technology?

Assistive technology is a range of electronic gadgets that can help you to live independently in your own home. This includes things such as:

• Sensors/detectors that link to a monitoring centre (via your rented community ‘pendant’ alarm). For example smoke, low temperature, falls, and property exit sensors
• Global Positioning System (GPS) location devices that use a mobile network to raise an alert to a carer or monitoring centre, eg the buddi GPS device
• Triggers/sensors that can support a person or their carer in and around the home. For example pendant buttons, door contacts or motion sensors linked to a pager

Who is the service for?

This service is for adults over 18 years living in their own home (this excludes residential/care homes).

The Assistive Technology team will carry out an assessment to see if you would benefit from having any electronic gadgets that would help you to stay independent and/or provide support for your carer.