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A panel that tells you, for example, if the front door is unlocked or the coffee machine is on makes home life for the elderly feel safer and more secure. This invention is currently being tested in a housing area in Norrköping, in collaboration with New Homes for Health. For elderly people to be able to go on living in their own homes for a long time, the sense of being safe and secure is important. Example of passive measures are removal of thresholds and ensuring that there are lifts.Front door ‘Our product is passive too, but it’s very much perceived as active. It’s something you can see and that you use several times a day, often round the clock.’ The speaker is Dan Kjellander who, jointly with Jan Beckius, runs the Sensagon company. It was Sensagon that produced the memory panel now known as the ‘H.KOM system’. This memory aid is a panel that is designed to be mounted on a wall. Most people put it by the front door. There are various display options: you can choose to show whether, for example, the balcony door is open, the iron is on or you’ve forgotten to lock the front door. There is also a card, perfect for hanging on a keyring, which reflects the information displayed on the panel. This means that the information is visible even if you are not at home. Tested and evaluated ‘We chose to join New Tools for Health because we wanted to forge good contacts, and because there was scope for getting the product tested and evaluated by the type of user we’re catering for,’ Dan Kjellander says. The memory panel is now being tested at home by such users as four elderly residents of the Ljura housing area in Norrköping. Hyresbostäder i Norrköping, the housing company that owns the properties, has received a favourable response from the testers and is interested in further collaboration. ‘We’ve already had discussions with Sensagon about possibly buying the product,’ Martin Callmeryd at Hyresbostäder i Norrköping reveals. |
