Hundreds of people are now able to live more safely and independently at home in Medway thanks to new care technology.<\/p>\n
The system, called Lilli, uses small, discreet sensors and artificial intelligence to understand a person’s daily routines, helping people stay in their homes and avoid unnecessary moves into residential care.<\/p>\n
Medway Council said the technology had already helped save \u00a31.6m in its first year.<\/p>\n
Brett Burnell, whose father Keith lives with dementia and has the system installed in his flat, said: “I can check that he’s safe within his home and it allows him to continue to be at home for the foreseeable future.”<\/p>\n
The programme is delivered by the council’s wholly owned tech partner Kyndi and supports “national health and care goals to move services into communities – and use digital tools to improve care”.<\/p>\n
Mr Burnell said: “My dad’s obviously frail and getting older. It means that I can know what my dad is doing on certain occasions.”<\/p>\n
He added that both he and his sister have the Lilli app which monitors their father’s activity, and “obviously I can check that he’s eating when the fridge is opened and I know that he’s awake and that he’s able to get everything”.<\/p>\n
Councillor Teresa Murray, deputy leader of Medway Council, said the data was “helping us to transform how we deliver care”.<\/p>\n
She said that in some cases the data has shown that an individual was no longer able to live alone, but it had also given “much-needed reassurance to families that their loved ones are safe to stay in their homes and communities, which is where they want to be”.<\/p>\n
The technology works without cameras or microphones. Instead, small sensors track movement, eating, sleeping, bathroom use and home temperature. <\/p>\n
The system learns what is normal for each person and flags anything unusual, such as signs of illness, reduced mobility, or wandering at night.<\/p>\n
This helps carers respond earlier and tailor support to individual needs. <\/p>\n
Medway is one of several councils trialling the system in response to growing demand for care. <\/p>\n
The local authority said it was already helping older people and adults with learning disabilities get faster assessments and avoid health crises.<\/p>\n
Evidence produced by the company suggests that for every \u00a31 spent councils can save \u00a345 and free up thousands of carer hours.<\/p>\n
Clare Burgess, CEO of Kyndi, said that as well as the financial advantage the technology would offer a “social impact within Medway as people are more connected to their communities”.<\/p>\n
“This really makes a difference to people’s lives,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people are now able to live more safely and independently at home in Medway thanks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-71442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}