EAST Renfrewshire Council has teamed up with the fire service to install smoke alarms in the homes of vulnerable people.
The link-up, which also involves NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, is thought to be a Scottish first.
East Renfrewshire’s Community Health Care Partnership (CHCP) and Strathclyde Fire and Rescue are promoting the new scheme, which will mean all local people who use telecare – remote electronic care services to help them live independently at home – will also get smoke detectors fitted in their homes.
The new partnership will jointly fund and install the alarms, which will be linked to East Renfrewshire Council’s 24-hour community safety monitoring centre, Safety Net. Trained operators at the centre aim to get a response sent to a property affected by fire within minutes.
The family of a Neilston man who survived a house fire praised the new initiative.
June McIntosh and her father, Robert Mackie, who is in his 80s and hearing impaired, are one of the first families in East Renfrewshire to benefit from the programme.
Telecare equipment in Mr Mackie’s home now includes a vibrating pillow that will trigger an alert if a fire starts while he is asleep.
Ms McIntosh said: “My father didn’t have a smoke alarm because he wouldn’t have heard it going off.
“The installation of telecare and this new smoke detector have made such a difference to us. After the fire my brother and I would drive to his home in the middle of the night to check he was OK. We were living on our nerves. It’s a total relief.”
The link-up, which also involves NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, is thought to be a Scottish first.
East Renfrewshire’s Community Health Care Partnership (CHCP) and Strathclyde Fire and Rescue are promoting the new scheme, which will mean all local people who use telecare – remote electronic care services to help them live independently at home – will also get smoke detectors fitted in their homes.
The new partnership will jointly fund and install the alarms, which will be linked to East Renfrewshire Council’s 24-hour community safety monitoring centre, Safety Net. Trained operators at the centre aim to get a response sent to a property affected by fire within minutes.
The family of a Neilston man who survived a house fire praised the new initiative.
June McIntosh and her father, Robert Mackie, who is in his 80s and hearing impaired, are one of the first families in East Renfrewshire to benefit from the programme.
Telecare equipment in Mr Mackie’s home now includes a vibrating pillow that will trigger an alert if a fire starts while he is asleep.
Ms McIntosh said: “My father didn’t have a smoke alarm because he wouldn’t have heard it going off.
“The installation of telecare and this new smoke detector have made such a difference to us. After the fire my brother and I would drive to his home in the middle of the night to check he was OK. We were living on our nerves. It’s a total relief.”
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