MyAmego Healthcare Limited
MyAmego Healthcare’s company philosophy embraces a holistic approach to supporting those living with dementia, their carers and care delivery organisations; our focus is on relevant design to provide for individual need, choice and dignity, promoting the delivery of person-centred care through the support of assistive technology.
The MyAmego system has the capability to support many aspects of the declaration and we are already working with and informing a number of DAA members in a number of areas.
We operate nationally and locally with care provider groups, NHS Trusts, Local and National Government representatives, academic and professional bodies, charities and specialists in the field of dementia training and personally interested members of the public.
Through our business activities we aim to educate and influence those working directly for change in dementia care provision. Over the past three years through system demonstrations, exhibitions, speaking opportunities, the press, reference site visits and business meetings we have sought to reinforce and support current thinking about personalisation of care for people with dementia and illustrate how outcomes can be enhanced and measured with appropriate use of intelligent technology in such areas as re-enablement, wellbeing, condition monitoring, rehabilitation and medication management.
2. What are the challenges to delivering these outcomes from the perspective of your organisation?
The key challenges being faced by our organisation
1. Integration of technology into care service offerings - not an end in itself
2. General education of users and training within care delivery organisations on the benefits of enabling technologies
1. A need for organisations to embrace the value of relevant technology and see it as an integral part of the service they offer to people with dementia where it is appropriate to do so.
2. A need for technology to be seen as a part of people’s lives in early stages of their condition, that it is not intrusive and that it will enable them to maintain wellbeing and their ability to live the life they choose where they choose to live.
3. What are your plans as an organisation to respond to these challenges between now and 2014?
MyAmego Healthcare’s focus will be on supporting the lives of people with dementia and those that care for them; to promote wellbeing and support positive outcomes with dignity through:
- The launch of a MyAmego system for people to use in their own homes
- Ongoing development of the functionality of the system to enhance its usability among a broader spectrum of people with dementiaA measurable increase in the numbers of people enabled by the system in their own homes, assisted living, residential/nursing care and hospitals
- Increased use of the system by public and professional bodies in their care delivery services to people with dementia
- Proactively managing people’s wellbeing and desired outcomesPromoting the use of the system in creating communities of care with centralised bodies having the ability to outreach to people living in their own homes
- Promoting the system in its role in supporting consistent care delivery from care providers across their care settingsA significant reduction in the use of antipsychotic medication and sedation in care homes by the use of the system to better manage behaviours that challenge and aid staff to cope better
- Enabling informal carers to cope better with supporting people with dementia, to lessen the burden of the need for safeguarding duties and to give them peace of mind and prolong their ability to provide care and support
- To promote the use of assistive technology as a tool for ongoing assessment of people’s progression through their condition (in early stages self-monitoring/in later stages by professionals e.g. GPs
- Promoting the use of the system as a means of measuring care delivery from professional bodies