Panel of Telecare Service Providers

The objective of the Seniors Alert Scheme is to encourage community support and social inclusion for vulnerable older people in the Republic of Ireland. There is a need to support people to maintain independent living within their own homes for longer and to meet their perceived security and safety needs. Pobal have been contracted by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (DECLG) to manage the administration of this scheme from 2015. Under the Seniors Alert Scheme, eligible persons (the ‘beneficiaries’) will be offered funding for the supply, delivery, installation and warranty of telecare equipment such as base units and personal alarm pendants/triggers. Before any telecare equipment under the Seniors Alert Scheme is installed at a beneficiary’s home, that beneficiary must demonstrate the existence of a contract with a telecare service provider of their choice; a service which does not directly come under the scope of the Seniors Alert Scheme’s funding. Pobal is cognisant of the fact that personal purchasing of telecare services reduces the opportunities for economies of scale, with the risk of an overall increase in the cost of telecare for individual beneficiaries. Therefore, Pobal would like to empower and assist beneficiaries by providing them with a panel of pre-qualified telecare service providers to choose from. Use of this panel by beneficiaries will be on a voluntary basis only and beneficiaries will at all times be able to exercise their choice of service provider outside of the panel. The Panel will operate for a period of 3 years (February 2015 – January 2018) and there is no deadline for applications during this period.

Services

05/11/2015 14:30:00

71700000-5  Monitoring and control services
79711000-1  Alarm-monitoring services