Time Spent on Floor After Falls of Frailty People Overnight

Summary

In the context of reduce staff for supervision of dependent elderly, automated risk alert systems could have a positive impact on the organization of night care by better targeting monitoring. Residents' sleep could be less affected with use of automatic alert system than by systematic monitoring visits. One study shows an improvement in the humor of residents after the use of such a system.

The hypothesis of the study is that the use of a bed-raising detection system linked with the activation of a lighting environment and a caregivers alert system (Etolya-F® gerontechnology device, Anaxi Technology Company) would reduce intervention time in this population, thus limiting the time spent on floor and its physical and psychological consequences.

Conditions

• Dependence
• Fall From Bed
• Fall Injury
• Fall in Nursing Home
• Cognition Disorders

Interventions

OTHER

run-in period

observational time i.e. baseline situation

DEVICE

Control period

neither activation of any lighting environment when the resident gets up from his bed nor alert if the resident did not return to bed after 15 minutes Etolya-F ® devices will only permit detection and recording of the moment of the elderlly will leave his/her bed and recording of the moment the elderly will be found by caregivers

DEVICE

Etolya-F ® devices

Etolya-F ® devices will permit detection of absence in the bed, activation of a lighting environment when the resident gets up from his bed, transmission of alert to caregivers through the centralized system of sick call if the resident do not return to bed after 15 minutes and recording the time when caregivers will find the resident out of bed, distinguishing between a fall and a night wandering in the room or corridors without a fall

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Centre Hospitalier Annecy Genevois

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Dr Matthieu DEBRAY, MD · CH Annecy Genevois

• Dr Nathalie RUEL, MD · CH Annecy Genevois

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

DEVICE_FEASIBILITY

Masking

NONE

Model

SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-01-20

Primary Completion

2018-05-31

Completion

2019-05-31

Countries

• France

Study Locations