Quebec puts itself in the PAIR program

February 4th 2010, the Quebecois Minister responsible for the Elders, Marguerite Blais, inaugurated the opening of a PAIR program agency to Montmagny-L’Islet (France). Sometimes alone and isolated, an old person needs to be able to count on the help of someone else after a fall. In Quebec a solution was found thanks to the PAIR program, giving access to a service of daily automated phone call.
Subscribed free of the system, the elder receives in his place of residence, at the agreed hour, a call of a duration of eight bells. If the person doesn’t answer, the calls repeat twice. After these three calls made for a total deadline of twenty minutes, the alert is activated. The persons liable of the program then contact a close relation of the person, who must have the key of the residence. In case it turns out impossible to contact the referents, the Sûreté du Quebec intervenes immediately.
Last year this device allowed saving 56 old persons in Quebec. The province’s government believes a lot in this system. To such a point he invested 1.4 million dollars over four years to finance the program’s deployment in the whole of Quebec.
In Europe there are similar systems of ordinate remote help on the same principle. But regrettably this service remains paying and aloof.
A system which can thus turn out effective, provided that we don’t rush. Because remember us, a movement to go to answer is always a risk of fall.
Figures are edifying. Every year there is more than two million old persons who fall. Facing of such report, protect-chute is necessary to give to all, particular as professional, a tool always more successful. In this optics the site will be richer of three new columns. You will so find Directly from research laboratories, which will contain articles on the various detection’s systems, the hip ‘s defenders and the new areas of research in detection. Fall’s news, which will present summaries of recent fall’s articles. And finally Practical applications, which will list the different attitudes to be had front of the fall.
Always in a prevention’s concern, the site will also proposed many articles which listing the multitude of prevention shop, through the country in a first time then through Europe, allowing all to reach, near at home, an adapted training to warn and react always more effectively facing the fall.
This year will be placed on the information‘s aegis, completes and varies, but always more effective. Then mind you don’t fall it!