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Dispersed alarm systems – a review
Author(s) -
PARRY MALCOM,
BAKER STEPHEN
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of consumer studies and home economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.775
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1470-6431
pISSN - 0309-3891
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-6431.1985.tb00451.x
Subject(s) - alarm , liberalization , accommodation , telecommunications , service (business) , selection (genetic algorithm) , business , operations management , distress , computer science , computer security , medicine , engineering , economics , marketing , psychology , artificial intelligence , market economy , electrical engineering , clinical psychology , neuroscience
The increase in the number of retired, elderly and very old in society has begun to pose the problem of how to provide access to care services for those in households which are not purpose built, specially adapted and serviced accommodation. Liberalization of telecommunications in the U.K. allied to technical advances have allowed ‘dispersed alarm systems’ to be developed and thus provide a means of communication between isolated elderly people in distress and a central emergency service. The selection of an appropriate system and its management are discussed in this paper.