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Home Care
Home care now often includes assistive technologies that help people live independently and safely at home. From personal alarms and sensor monitoring to medication reminders and smart alerts, these tools support older adults, people with disabilities, and carers, enhancing safety, reducing hospital visits, and improving quality of life.
Adoption Isn’t Buy-In—Why Real Engagement Starts Before Go-Live
Even well-designed technology fails if people aren’t ready to adopt it. Article 4 explores why success depends on staff, clients, and carers, how they’re trained, supported, and included. Without behaviour change strategies, tech becomes extra work. This piece highlights adoption readiness gaps and the need for structured change models like Kotter’s.
Hubert van Dalen
4 min read
Consumer Choice Alone Won’t Deliver Value: The Case for Provider-Led Tech Decisions
Discover why aged care tech fails when value isn’t clear. Learn in article 3 why providers—not clients—should lead decisions to ensure safe, scalable, & meaningful adoption
Hubert van Dalen
4 min read
Why the Technology Itself Can Make or Break Smart Care Adoption
Technology isn’t adopted just because it’s available. Article 2 explores why product success depends on usability, integration, and the real-world work it creates. Even good tech fails if it doesn’t align with staff capacity, system design, and clinical workflows. Matching tools to context is just as important as functionality.
Hubert van Dalen
4 min read
Why Understanding 'The Condition' is Foundational for Smart Care Technology Adoption
Technology often fails not because it’s flawed, but because the person it’s applied to hasn’t been properly understood. Article 1 of the NASSS series explores why “the condition” is the most underestimated domain in care tech adoption—and why clinical complexity, cognitive variation, and cultural context must shape every implementation.
Hubert van Dalen
5 min read
Funding Alone Won’t Drive Assistive Technology Adoption: Managing the Seven Influences is Critical
Tech adoption in aged care rarely fails due to poor tech—it fails because care, people, and systems are complex. Success depends on managing that complexity.
Hubert van Dalen
4 min read
Smart Care Technology: Fall Prevention or Fall Detection?
Smart care technologies are evolving from simple fall detectors to tools that can help predict and prevent falls. By monitoring changes in gait, movement, and behaviour, these technologies support faster response times and personalised care. But success depends on striking the right balance between sensitivity and precision, and choosing solutions that fit the individual.
Hubert van Dalen
21 min read
June 2024 the 3G mobile network shuts down
The challenge of upgrading 300,000 3G Alarms devices in Australia before June 2024 is huge, and the potential liabilities are frightening
Hubert van Dalen
1 min read
Safety for Elderly: The Ultimate Guide
This guide, along with infographics, covers all home safety, driving safety tips for seniors, forms of fraud and a safety checklist
Hubert van Dalen
1 min read
Aged care providers’ digital implications based on the "Safety, Care, Dignity, and Respect" report
The digital transformation opportunity in Aged Care requires a clear articulation of the speed, direction and extent of reform
Hubert van Dalen
5 min read
IT'S JUST VOICE - and that works perfectly for seniors
Easy-to-use device. Voice works perfectly for seniors. Affordable, useful, and empowering
Hubert van Dalen
1 min read
What is Remote Monitoring?
There are two types of remote care monitoring; Remote Patient Monitoring and Medical Emergency monitoring, with 3 key differences
Hubert van Dalen
4 min read
How to select a Mobile Personal Alarm?
Choosing a mobile personal alarm? Learn what features matter most for safety, ease of use, fall detection, location tracking, and ongoing support.
Hubert van Dalen
29 min read
Which Assistive Technology solution to pick?
To avoid non-adoption and abandonment issues of your care technology solution you need to consider and manage all 7 key influences...
Hubert van Dalen
6 min read
Integrating home care technology
“Every conceivable device exists to enable home care – it just needs to be bundled together to a single destination". The biggest care
Hubert van Dalen
4 min read
5 Significant Smart Care Technology Benefits For Elderly And Their Loved Ones
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SEEING IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG COMPARED TO WHAT SMART CARE TECHNOLOGY HAS TO OFFER TO MAKE OUR LIVES EASIER....
Hubert van Dalen
3 min read
5 Applications Of Voice Assistants In Healthcare
Previous blog posts have noted that voice is a natural interface for communicating our thoughts and ideas. Recent innovations have made...
Hubert van Dalen
3 min read
How Siri, Alexa, and Google can support independent living for dementia patients
Healthcare is an obvious area where voice assistants can make an immediate impact. Various healthcare applications, e.g., care coordination,
Hubert van Dalen
3 min read
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