Podcast: Panasonic offers solutions for fast growing senior care communications market

In almost any community, one of the fastest growing sectors is long term senior care. From places that offer independent living to facilities that provide intense assisted care, long term residential senior care facilities are proliferating across the country. Yet the UC market has often offered generalized solutions for these facilities that did not address their special communication challenges. In this Oliver Bodden, product manager of unified communications at Panasonic System Communications Company of North America, walks us through Panasonic’s recently announced Senior Care Facility Communications Solution. Bodden describes how the system brings together real-time communication, including the traditionally separate nurse calling system. We learn how Panasonic’s UC approach is designed to reduce alarm response time and also reduce caregiver fatigue, thus improving the sector’s challenge of high staff turnover. The system also provides improved reporting functions, that help with staffing, resident billing and reduce costs. The platform can be customized. As senior care development is occurring in most places, the system offers many local channel companies an opportunity tap into a previously ignored and low growth market.