Our modern society privileges from many technological dimensions. Consequently, for institutions such as nursing homes, it becomes paramount to control this last and to have great adaptabilities concerning the environmental changes.
The project of medico-social establishments falls under a constructive and participative logic of quality research.
This year, in France there are more than 40,000 nursing home seats to answer to the old peoples' expectations. This sentence explains pretty well how huge the business can be.
To serve this growth, however, there is still not enough nursing home capacity, from building new beds to restructuring existing facilities. Most nursing homes are run by public institutions or associations. The private sector, which currently accounts for 55% in France, has increased its role a lot in recent years.
[...] This standard, concerning the private sector called ISO2000, is renewable and cover many aspect such as; quality of the health care team, quality of the care and infrastructure evaluation New Product Idea: Gay/Lesbian nursing home Most gays or lesbians hope to find peace and serenity during their older days, but for them a kind of discrimination is there, even in assisted-living facilities. That's why; we think it could be great to create a special place where these kinds of people could spend their last days in peace and comfort. [...]
[...] Even if it's common in this kind of business activity to keep only 3 nurses for 30 people, Serenity centre wants to keep a good service quality. We can imagine a shift such as: 2 nurses assistants and 1 doctor a day. And 1 nurse assistant and 1 doctor (available but not in the center) for the nights. Our goal is to keep a low cost of personnel; using the technological devices to optimise the time for caring about the people and leaving old people under the monitoring of nurses. [...]
[...] We give details of the items our business would need or those that it requires over the next three years, as well as details of their costs Special devices - Geolocalization of old people This is a new wireless nurse call system which informs the staff about the calls and the location of a person calling for help. The main market for teleCARE WP is the elderly care segment care homes, nursing homes, sheltered housing etc. The residents/patients are using a small wireless transmitter, to call for help. [...]
[...] Moreover, the Serenity center business would represent for them a specific sector which is the old people home integrating IT technologies. These Groups are for instance: - Noble Age Group www.groupenobleage.com - Serience Group www.serience.com - Medica France www.medica-france.fr 2.5 Security for raising finance A million French are today more than 85 years of age. Their number will have doubled around 2020, in 10 years. In spite of the incentives of the authorities for the care in residence, the population needing a place in old people's home will unrelentingly increase. [...]
[...] 7.1 Objectives for us to set up this business This new business would be a first step in our strategic plan for the next few years. We would like to open and run this first centre in the way to develop our organization, creating other Serenity centers across France. We would invest to create a new centre every three to four years after the launch of the first one. By that time we will be able to gain profit from our first investment, namely the first center. [...]
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