Lancashire telecare support service to start charging amid claim the move will 'cost lives'
Telecare involves the installation of sensors in an individual’s home to detect whether they are moving around and if they have fallen. The person is also provided with a pendant or wrist alarm which they can trigger if they need help.
“Some of them will be able to predict problems, rather than reacting post-event,” County Cllr Gooch explained. “[For] a lot [of] elderly people I know who have telecare in its current form, actually that’s their only lifeline…and without it, when they’ve had falls, they would have been there for a day or two days before someone [found] them.County Cllr Gooch said that in other areas which had introduced telecare charges – such as Greater Manchester – there had not been a “great influx of deaths” commensurate with the reduction in usage of the service.
County Cllr Lorraine Beavers, deputy leader of the Labour group, said that a means test should be applied to all telecare users to calculate whether they should have to pay anything at all.
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