Successful event for experts for care and communication systems

Honeywell Life Safety Austria brings together experts to open new dialogue on disease affecting 4 million Europeans

Honeywell Life Safety Austria invited the American gerontologist Naomi Feil and other medical experts to present new thinking on care and communications for individuals suffering from dementia - affecting more than four million Europeans. With over 40 years experience in hospital and care facility communication and safety solution, Honeywell is introducing a range of monitoring devices, under the Ackermann clino by Honeywell brand.

Validation: A new understanding of people suffering from dementia
Naomi Feil´s Validation technique is aimed at communicating with dementia-diagnosed people, which helps patients and also reduces the stress and burden on care-givers. The world-renowned method, developed by Feil in the 1980s, sets forth a basic attitude for how to better cope with people suffering from dementia. Integrating technology with the Validation technique allows freedom of movement which in turn enhances dignity and happiness. This concept outlines a "walk in the other person´s shoes to focus on the person an to decipher the code of a language veiled by dementia through the application of precise techniques of communication". Using this technique, Feil has created a new culture of communicating with the elderlys and confused people suffering from dementia.

Technical innovations support self-determination and freedom of movement
Werner Bernreiter, Director of SeneCura Social Center in Grafenwörth, refers to the experiences gained by using the new technique in the care facility in lower Austria. "Freedom and self-determination are rights which do not know any age limit. For this reason, the doors are generally open for every resident in our institution. Through Ackermann clino by Honeywell a modern disorientation system was installed for a dementia patients in Grafenwörth, which meets the latest state of the art technology and does not restrict freedom of movement."
"Every resident suffering from dementia receives a disorientation watch that shows the resident´s current position to the care team via an integrated chip - especially if they leave the common area", says Bernreiter.

"The demographic changes, higher safety standards and the simultaneously occuring decrease in financial and human resources require innovative solutions in the field of modern hospital and care communication, especially when managing the needs of increasing number of confused and disorientated people", says Rainer Wagner, Product Manager of Ackermann clino by Honeywell.

The combination of Feil´s Validation technique and the way system from Ackermann clino by Honeywell enable patients to stay self-determined, fascinated 18 journalists of the most important Austrian trade and public press.