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Welcome to the answers for Elders

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radio show, meet the trusted experts

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who will give you straight answers and we will help

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guide you on the path of later life care.

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Now, here's your host, founder,

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Caregiver and Ceo

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Suzanne Newman and

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welcome everyone to Answers for Elders Radio

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Network. And we are here with

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Lindsay and Shannon who are

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both the creators and

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executive team of an amazing

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new innovation for family

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caregivers and seniors that

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are living alone in their homes

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or independently. Um

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Anything like that in a, an amazing

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product called Care Bloom and

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Shannon and Lindsay. Welcome back

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to answers for elders. Thanks.

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You know, I am very interested

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to dive into Care Bloom.

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So what type of information

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can a caregiver see on

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a Care Bloom app? Absolutely.

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We really want to pull the most important

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information forward for a caregiver.

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So you're gonna be able to see information

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like you're the vitals. So that would

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include temperature, blood pressure, heart

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rate and oxygen saturation. You're

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also going to be able to see uh accurate

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location data. So where they're spending

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most time if they're in the living room,

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kitchen bathroom and really how

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they uh how the mobility looks throughout the

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home. And then the last one is you're going to be

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able to see important health behavioral

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data. And we know that there's

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a lot of smart watches on the market

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that a lot that tell you that you're going to get this health

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and wellness data. But really how we're different

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is that we take that health data and

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we put it in context of behavioral

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and those things look like sleep,

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mobility or status home

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and then self care like toilet and bathroom

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so that you can really be proactive in your

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care. You're not finding out that mom hasn't

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left her bedroom for six hours and

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you're getting off of work and saying, mom, what's

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going on, you're gonna be able to see that there's

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stagnation and maybe something's wrong

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so that you can communicate earlier, find out what's

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going on and be more proactive with

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what your next steps are. We. We also

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thought it was really important to be able to set

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alerts in the home. So if there's a restricted

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room, a room that is a fall

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risk or like the basement or garage

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that you know that your stall

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stairwells, we want to be able to tell

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you, hey, mom's out into the basement

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right now and you can call her and say, hey, I'm coming

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over after work to do laundry. I

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see that you're in the basement. Let's make sure you get up those

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stairs so that you're not finding out

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about it after that. Or

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if your loved one has issues with leaving

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the home at maybe times that they're not

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supposed to or maybe wandering. We

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want to make sure that elopement is part of

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the alert package so

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that it really is sort of all of those behaviors.

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And then if your loved one needs assistance,

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they can actually request it through their watch

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and that notification goes directly to

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your app. It's a push notification and

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you can see mom needs help. She's currently

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in the bathroom and you're able to make

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a plan for what's next. Yeah.

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And you know, it's all, it's such a good

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way of not feeling alone,

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you know, and not having a situation

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where, you know, you might fall

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in the bathroom or you maybe cannot

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get, get up out of a chair. Sometimes

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those things happen. Obviously,

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you guys have the ability to have that

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connection with their primary

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caregiver, daughter, son,

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something like that and it gives that connection.

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So where, you know, you're throughout your day

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as you, as you're working your job

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or anything like that, you could feel come to confident

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of what's happening with your loved one.

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Absolutely. Yeah, I think one of the other unique

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aspects is that the change in behavior. So

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if there's increase in toilet, you

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might be saying, hey, is there a UT I

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thing uh issue or if

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there's decrease are we having

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dehydration issues. So any change

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in behavior would also give you a, you know, there'd

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be alert to give you a deeper insight into

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changes in the care plan. Yeah,

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and that totally makes sense in

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how that all comes together.

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So can you guys give me an example

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of, you know, some of the ways in which

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people are using care care bloom?

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Absolutely. I think actually

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just like following on with Shannon

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just said is, you know, we had

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one individual who

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was talking about how lightheaded he was

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and all these like, I'm so fatigued

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and he was an elderly gentleman and you

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know, you start to wonder like what's going on, his vital

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signs were looking good. But after

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watching him for a series of days, we

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were noticing that there was

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no toilet activities. Yeah,

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so went in and kind of monitored

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him for a little bit and he wasn't drinking.

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No one was there reminding him it's time to

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have a glass of water, it's time to drink during

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the day. And you know, dehydration

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really plays heavily on our seniors.

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Yes, it does with confusion and all

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of that. And you know, it was an easy thing to remedy

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that we were able to see within a matter of

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days. No doctor

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trip, nothing. And it was a quick fix

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that just from looking at the data, it was able

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to be resolved.

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So Lindsay, um here's, here's

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another question that I'm not, I don't really totally

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understand. Does ter bloom work only

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with in the home or does it work outside

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the home? What is the, um, the,

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uh, boundary, I guess, of the

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product it, it works with inside

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the home. Most of our seniors

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are pretty much the focus

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group. They're very much at home. If, if they're

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leaving most times it's to a doctor's

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appointment or with a family member.

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Um, we do alert

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as soon as the patient has left the house,

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but once outside the home

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then we don't.

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Yeah. Yeah. So it's, it's a wonderful

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home monitoring system

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that obviously, um, would

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it, we just outside the

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boundary, like, say on a patio or something

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like that would, would the signal go

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that far? Yes. Ok.

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So if they walked out on a patio

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or a walkway or something like that, they

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most likely would be monitored if they picked

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out their mail. If it was closed, something

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like that, it would be, it would still

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work. Yes. That's

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amazing. That's amazing. So, tell

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me a little bit about,

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um, your promotion and really

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what, um, what are people gonna get? Yeah.

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So when, when we're looking to, um, we're

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giving away two care bloom, um, for

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a year. So we're doing that in June and September.

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Uh, when they receive the care bloom, they'll have

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enough to monitor one individual

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in the home and five rooms.

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Um, so it comes with all of the hardware, um

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and then service packages for a year.

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So you'll be able to, you know, go on to your app

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or you can go on to the website, um and

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see all of that data. So all of that notification.

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And so Shannon, uh and Lindsay, what

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is when you say a room, what is involved

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in setting up a room? Yeah.

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So we've, we've really tried to make, I know

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that, you know, hardware can be, you know, challenging

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and, and, you know, I even

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think about how I'm integrating hardware

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into my home and all of the sensors

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that we have. Um So we really wanted to

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make it really user friendly. So

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setting up a room includes a

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anchor that goes into a wall outlet.

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And the only kind of rules are that

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the anchor shouldn't be blocked by furniture.

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Um And that um it

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should be um accessible and plugged

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in at all times. Um And

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then we have room sensors

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that monitor if someone

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has moved into a room. Uh So it's

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a motion sensor. Um And those two

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things work together to really provide

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100% accuracy of,

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of where a person is moving and it's very,

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very delicate. So a kitchen

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in an apartment can be very close to the living

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room or an open floor, um you

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know, kind of design in a home. And so

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it really is sensitive. So four steps,

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either way, we can actually tell you where your,

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your, your loved one is. So, if there's something

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wrong, you're able to locate them very quickly.

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And obviously, like you said,

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if they haven't got up out of their chair for a long

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time, you're gonna notice that if,

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if you know you, uh, five rooms would

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easily be enough for the bathroom, the bedroom,

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the kitchen and the living room and you've got one

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extra. Absolutely fabulous.

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And everyone, we're going to be right back

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and we're looking forward to,

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um, talking a little bit more about costs

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and what happens with care bloom right

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