As a result, Home Instead do not have the extra payroll cost of the caregiver waiting with that client, and the client does not have the charge of the caregiver for the waiting time.Īnd of course it reduces hospital admissions. Having the Raizer chair eliminates the potential 6 – 12 hours time waiting with a client who has fallen but not injured themselves. It enables them to reassure the client that they are more likely to be able to stay at home. The Raizer has had an overwhelmingly positive impact on the service Home Instead East Herts & Uttlesford provide to their clients. How has the Raizer impacted your service to your clients? If the client passes the assessment, they will lift them up from the floor using the Raizer Chair and assist them into a chair or wherever they feel comfortable. They then carry out an assessment of the client to check they have no injuries – using the Home Instead organisational lifting policy which sets out how to use the Raizer and when / when not to use it. When a caregiver arrives at a client’s property and finds the client on the floor, or a family member calls to inform them of a fall, one of the 2 Raizer trained personnel will drive to the clients house with the Raizer Chair. Home Instead East Herts & Uttlesford have 2 members of staff who are fully trained on using the Raizer and take it in turns to be on call with the lifting chair. Home Instead Exeter and East Devon found that prior to using the Raizer Chair, 57% of their clients who had a fall would end up being admitted to hospital 1 (read on to see what they reduced this to). The resulting deconditioning from this long lie means that in many cases, even if the person was not injured in the fall, the deconditioning from the long lie results in a hospital admission. This waiting time also often results in a long lie. And as the caregiver cannot leave the fallen person, the client has to be charged for the time spent with them, and Home Instead has to pay the caregiver for the time they spend at the client’s property. This disrupts the caregivers’ schedules and lowers their level of service to other clients. As the caregiver cannot then fulfil their other appointments during that time, the Care Agency instead has to coordinate another caregiver to carry out those other appointments. This has both service and financial implications. That caregiver would then have to wait often up to 7 hours with the client for the ambulance crew to come out and lift the fallen person. What did you do before you had your Raizer? What was the problem?īefore the Raizer, when arriving at a client’s house to find them on the floor following a non-injury or minor injury fall, caregivers would normally have to dial 999 for an ambulance. Please scroll to the bottom of the page to read the video transcript
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