Dementia Care

Austco's Dementia Care System integrates with CallGuard to provide a total non-intrusive monitoring and emergency call system for the care of residents suffering from confusion as a result of Alzheimer's or other Dementia disorders. The DCS-2000 is a small, easy-to-use, two button-operated microprocessor controllers that alerts staff to resident's need for care.

Installed next to the door just outside the resident's room, the DCS-2000 integrates with various non-intrusive movement sensors such as a Bed Occupancy Sensor, door reed switch and PIR movement detectors. The sophisticated microprocessor software analyzes the movements detected by these sensors to ‘normal' behavior and if not, an alarm is raised to alert staff that the resident needs care.  Using a simple single key action, staff can select one of 16 predefined behavior profiles to be used by the DCS-2000 software as ‘normal' behavior for a particular resident. This avoids unnecessary alarms when the resident, for example, leaves the bed, goes to the toilet and returns to bed.

The DCS-2000 incorporates pre-emptive light cuing based on the selected behavior profile and analysis of movement to automatically switch main room and/or other room lights on or off to assist and guide the resident. CallGuard is designed for 24-hour, 7-days-a-week reliability utilizing state of- the-art technologies to entirely satisfy the demands of extended care, retirement villages, nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

At the heart of the Dementia Care system is the BOS (Bed Occupancy Sensor). The AUSTCO BOS is based on patented Kinotex®, a smart fibre optic pressure sensing component manufactured by Tactex. The BOS is a long-life, under the mattress sensor that alerts a care-giver when a resident is out of bed.