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Six pieces on how fall-like patterns are sensed, where each method fails, and what a care home has to do between an alert and a person at the bedside. No product claims, no invented numbers: the links go to the sources and to the pages that describe the platform.
A camera fall detection system compares video frames to judge that a person has gone to the floor. It works in a lit common room and fails behind a curtain or in the dark, and a bedroom camera raises consent and dignity questions, so most care homes keep cameras in shared areas and verify each alert by hand.
Read the noteA bed exit alarm for elderly residents senses that weight has left the mattress or crossed a beam beside the bed, then tells the staff on shift that someone is up. It catches the unplanned exit, not the fall itself, and only helps if the alert reaches a person who can walk there.
Read the noteA fall detection sensor measures one physical thing — motion, weight, radio reflection or acceleration — and infers a fall-like pattern from how that thing changed. No single sensor covers a bedroom, a bathroom and a corridor equally well, so the honest design question is which room you are protecting.
Read the noteFall detection watches for seniors read acceleration at the wrist and raise an alarm when the pattern looks like an impact followed by stillness. Accuracy depends on the watch being worn and charged, which is the part that fails first, so a watch suits an independent person who keeps it on, not a ward.
Read the noteThe Morse Fall Scale scores six items into a total of 0 to 125: 0 to 24 is low risk, 25 to 44 moderate and 45 or above high. The band decides how closely a resident is observed and what the care plan changes, so the score only earns its keep when the plan moves with it.
Read the noteFall prevention in a care home rests less on the sensor than on the chain behind it: a room reports a fall-like pattern, a named staff member is dispatched, verifies what happened and records it. The interval between the alert and someone at the bedside is what decides whether prevention holds.
Read the noteSteadiCore evidence note
What arrives: one short note on what public research and Hong Kong care-home practice actually say about fall risk, plus a printable risk-assessment sheet you can walk a floor with — the same sheet for operators and for families.
SteadiCore evidence note
What arrives: one short note on what public research and Hong Kong care-home practice actually say about fall risk, plus a printable risk-assessment sheet you can walk a floor with — the same sheet for operators and for families.
SteadiCore surfaces fall-risk signals for staff to verify. It is not a medical device and does not guarantee detection of every fall.