Charity project to reduce falls in elderly people

(L) FNHC CEO Rosemarie Finley and (R) Digital Jersey COO Amy Taylor

Nearly £795,000 has been given to a Jersey charity as part of a project to reduce the number of falls among the island's elderly population.

Digital Jersey said the funding, being provided across two years, would be awarded through the government-funded Impact Jersey CareTech Challenge programme to support Family Nursing and Home Care (FNHC).

It said the pilot project would see the charity partner with Graphnet Health to implement the remote monitoring technology platform Luscii - a tool to gather data for 1,000 patients across the island.

FNHC CEO, Rosemarie Finley, said the project would "raise awareness" of the challenges faced by older people.

'Frailty and diabetes'

Digital Jersey said, in year two, the system would expand to monitor complications with wound care and diabetes management.

Ms Finley said: "The project will enable FNHC to provide person-centred community health care with a focus on earlier support and ill-health prevention in three key areas of care: frailty, diabetes and skin integrity."

Martin Carpenter, Health CIO, Health and Care Jersey said: "The pilot supports key priorities for Jersey's health system, including reducing avoidable hospital admissions, enabling more care to be delivered at home, and strengthening digital innovation in frontline services."