When a fall occurs, the sensor detects it and then creates an anonymised 30 second animation of the fall. Staff have the opportunity to review this animation in order to understand what happened and to assess whether the resident needs increased supervision after the fall has occurred.

Day to day we want to provide as much dignity and privacy to the resident as possible, we do this by only showing the icons on the resident card. With the animations, we want to maintain this dignity, while give you as much insight as possible into what happened, so that you can provide the best care for the resident when they need it the most.

How and why to use fall animations

Looking through an animation can help you understand the nuances of why a resident ended up on the floor, and answer questions like:

• Was it a serious fall where they were injured?
• Or did they gently lower themselves to the ground?
• What caused the fall? (for example, was there some furniture that they tripped over?)
• How could we better prevent this resident falling in the future?

An example of a fall animation. People are highlighted in red. This is not a real fall, we created this as an example.

An example of a fall animation. People are highlighted in red. This is not a real fall, we created this as an example.

How can the sensor create these animations without filming all the time?

The sensor is constantly creating these animations, but it only saves them if it sees a fall during those 30 seconds, otherwise it instantly deletes them. This allows the system to create fall animations, without having to save anything that isn’t related to the fall itself.

Reviewing Falls

When a fall comes in, it needs to be reviewed. This means going in, watching the animation, and selecting reviewing what kind of fall it was. This is done as follows:

1. Inside the fall area, select the corresponding fall (you will see a list of dates and times that an animation as been generated).
2. If a fall hasn’t been reviewed it will be orange.
3. Click on it, and three options will come up: Fall, safe to ground, not a fall.
4. In some cases we will have send an animation for something we thought was a fall, but it wasn’t, for example a resident falling asleep on the floor. In this case marking it as not a fall, will remove the animation.