A new safety technology case study from LeadingAge CAST explains how a senior living community increased its attention to fall awareness in assisted living rooms by 5,000%.

“Video-Based Fall Detection Improves Response Time” is part of the LeadingAge CAST Safety Technology Tool, which recently received new updates. This case study features LPSM Senior Care, an artificial intelligence fall prevention detection, notification, and response system. LPSM Senior Care is a LeadingAge Bronze Partner with CAST Focus.

Solution Combines Cameras and Artificial Intelligence

Cottages of New Lenox is a Charter Senior Living Community in New Lenox, IL, that offers assisted living and memory care. The community installed LPSM Senior Care in resident rooms and common areas to detect falls and identify potential falls. The system used cameras in the rooms plus an artificial intelligence system that analyzed images and conditions that could lead to a fall. The system also can detect and capture actual falls.

LPSM Senior Care was able to alert and empower the caregiving and nursing staff at unprecedented levels. With this new technology, staff became able to respond to issues that could lead to a fall. The technology also can alert staff of any falls that would require immediate response, like an Emergency Room visit, that staff otherwise may have missed.

Alerts included images and documentation about the resident and the circumstances. With this information, the care staff could respond to the alert and make informed decisions, including preventive interventions to reduce falls and fall risks for the resident in the future. Caregivers received these alerts via a tablet unit. Alerts escalated to nursing or management as needed.

Outcomes

At Cottages of New Lenox, the LPSM Senior Care system documented exceptional improvements in fall attention to assisted living rooms—the average awareness from rounds to real-time improved by 5,000%.

In memory care, LPSM Senior Care documented improvements that empowered staff to respond to alerts more efficiently. Coupled with two-way communication, the system observed residents in their rooms yet ignored non-critical events.

Learnings

Cottages of New Lenox noted an important learning: Starting at the project launch, be sure that staff, management, and leadership fully understand the return on investment the technology brings to each of them. Ensure they also know how the technology holistically addresses the facility’s pain points, improvement goals, strategies, and procedures.

About LPSM Senior Care

LPSM Senior Care is an artificial intelligence platform-based product. It is designed to fundamentally identify pre-indicators to a fall and falls in real-time and provide real-time two-way communication to caregivers, using high-definition cameras.

The solution can also be integrated into electronic health record systems for more comprehensive insights into the relationship of medical conditions, medications, behavior, and incidents. It can be extended into transition behavior mapping, such as wandering or behavior changes.

For more details, and to learn about LPSM Senior Care’s embodiment, business model, and implementation approach at Cottages of New Lenox, please see the full case study.