{"id":1483,"date":"2023-05-03T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:35:15","slug":"toch-sleepsense-technology-enables-retirement-home-staff-to-monitor-overnight-bed-exits-for-seniors-with-real-time-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/2023\/toch-sleepsense-technology-enables-retirement-home-staff-to-monitor-overnight-bed-exits-for-seniors-with-real-time-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Toch Sleepsense technology enables retirement home staff to monitor overnight bed-exits for seniors with real-time alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Toch Sleepsense technology enables retirement home staff to monitor overnight bed-exits for seniors with real-time alerts\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h3 id=\"link-to-original-article\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eahn.obio.ca\/new\/toch-sleepsense-technology-enables-retirement-home-staff-to-monitor-overnight-bed-exits-for-seniors-with-real-time-alerts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link to original article<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"exciting-new-about-a-recent-sam3-project-with-tochtech-inc\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exciting new about a recent SAM3 Project with TochTech Inc.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"sensor-technology-piloted-in-retirement-home-can-improve-health-and-safety-of-residents-study-finds\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Sensor technology piloted in retirement home can improve health and safety of residents, study finds<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May 2, 2023 <\/strong><strong>(Ottawa, ON<em>)<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Many seniors struggle with insomnia or may be living with dementia \u2013 conditions that can put them at increased risk of injury from nighttime wandering and falls. Nevertheless, overnight staff at care homes are faced with the challenge of providing direct and continuous monitoring of all at-risk residents. With funding and advisory support from OBIO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, through its Early Adopter Health Network (EAHN\u2122), researchers at Bruy\u00e8re partnered with Tochtech Technologies to evaluate the Toch Sleepsense, an award-winning bed alarm system\u2019s ability to monitor nocturnal activity in real-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tochsleepsense.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toch Sleepsense<\/a> is a non-contact sleep monitoring device, easily placed under the foot of a bed that is uniquely designed to detect when a person exits the bed. The system can provide \u201cout-of-bed\u201d alerts to care teams, helping them respond quickly to residents who may be at risk of falling or wandering, and generates high-level reports on sleep quality, helping health care providers better support a resident\u2019s care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of a five-month pilot, AGE-WELL SAM3 National Innovation Hub researchers validated the technology\u2019s accuracy in an objective laboratory setting at Carleton University with multiple bed styles and sensor placements. The evaluation was also conducted, in a real-world environment, located at The Courtyards on Eagleson, a seniors\u2019 retirement community for people living with dementia that is owned and operated by All Seniors Care Living Centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evaluation found that Sleepsense was successful in monitoring high-risk residents getting out of bed and wandering at nighttime by effectively alerting staff, which reduces the need for hourly checks on all residents\u2019 rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStaff members felt the technology supported their work enabling them ultimately to provide better care for their residents,\u201d said Dr. Frank Knoefel, Senior Investigator at the Bruy\u00e8re Research Institute and consultant at Courtyards. \u201cNot only can this technology support resident safety, we saw real examples of it supporting resident health when a family noticed their loved one was tired during daytime visits. Thanks to the available data on sleep cycles that the sensors also capture, we were able to recommend medication adjustments and monitor changes to the resident\u2019s sleep pattern. One family was really happy to see objective evidence of sleep improvement in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between validated testing in a controlled and home care environment, outcomes show the valuable impact the Sleepsense technology can have for long-term care and retirement homes. With the assessment resulting in a positive determination of value, OBIO\u2019s EAHN\u2122 program will now provide follow-on funding and advisory support to EAHN\u2122 members to plan and implement the procurement of Sleepsense in accordance with provincial procurement guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe evaluation demonstrates that this innovative, made-in-Canada solution will help to improve the care and safety of residents in long-term care settings who frequently get out of bed and wander\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad at night, said Dr. Maura Campbell, OBIO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> President and CEO. \u201cOBIO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> welcomes any opportunity to bring commercial-ready technologies that have a positive impact on patient care to the healthcare system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased that our partnership with Bruy\u00e8re can help continue improving the care journey of the aging population,\u201d said Jessica Yang, CEO, Tochtech Technologies. \u201cThe EAHN\u2122 program provides critical exposure for this innovative technology across the Ontario health care sector.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to original article Exciting new about a recent SAM3 Project with TochTech Inc. Sensor technology piloted in retirement home can improve health and safety of residents, study finds &nbsp; May 2, 2023 (Ottawa, ON) \u2013 Many seniors struggle with insomnia or may be living with dementia \u2013 conditions that can put them at increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tochtech"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}