They need YOUR help

4 November 2020, Brisbane, Australia

With the advent of COVID-19, many residents have been socially isolated since March 2020 and are suffering symptoms of anxiety and depression. Many Care Home residents are visited only once a week or even less.

COVID-19 and Mental Health

Since March 2020, care home residents have suffered:

1. An increased risk of illness and death due to infection.
2. Declining mental health due to social isolation and lack of visits.

With social distancing rules in place, the care homes have relied on technology to bring the families together virtually. However, the process has been daunting for the staff at the care home, the resident and the family members. 

Tablets don’t work

Recently, Mal from VisionLINQ has seen Care Homes buy iPads and tablets for residents to use for video calling.

The iPads and seniors tablets are bought by Care Homes with the right intentions: To connect residents to family. Unfortunately, they’re not easy for residents to use, they require staff to learn new apps, and there are no clear instructions for family members.

Konnekt Videophone is the simplest device

• Videophone enables residents to see friends at the touch of a button.

• No computer skills required, whatsoever.

• The large 15-inch screen provides incredible video

• Loud internal speakers are perfect for seamless conversation

• Completely personalised by the technicians at Konnekt

• Zero configuration required by staff at the care home

• Unlimited calls across Australia 

Captioning Videophone for profound hearing loss

Care Home residents with severe or profound hearing impairment or deafness have been devastated by the global pandemic. Their world is a lonely world. Too often, they suffer in silence, failing to understand even the staff who try to help them.

The Konnekt Captioning Videophone enables those with hearing loss to communicate, using captions (also known as subtitles or voice-to-text).

Captioned calls can be regular phone calls or video calls. Video calls allow the user to talk face-to-face to family and friends. This enables lip reading and the viewing of facial expressions, which significantly aids comprehension.

Sharing the same hardware platform as the regular Konnekt Videophone, the Captioning Videophone adds captioning, an optional handset and optional keypad dialler. It can have its own regular telephone number so that it can be used as a simple captioning phone.

The gifted Videophones will enable lonely residents to receive virtual visits from family. Increased face-to-face conversation has been shown, in medical studies, to combat social isolation and decrease depression risk.

VisionLINQ’s Vision

Mal Christie, VisionLINQ’s founder, admires the dedicated staff who work at Care Homes. He knows first hand how much of a difference great care can make to a resident. He has personally met and talked to many of the staff who help look after his own dad.

My vision is for every resident at every Care Home to be able to enjoy virtual visits. This can only work if we free up the time of Care Home staff, and make it easy for family to connect.

How You Can Help

If your Care organization has budget, please contact VisionLINQ or Konnekt directly. We will help you stretch your funding to put it to best use for maximum benefit.

If you have a pre-loved (used) Videophone or Captioning Videophone you no longer require, we will happily refurbish it for this program.

If you would like to suggest your parent’s Care Home to be a beneficiary of this program, please get in touch with Mal Christie.

Donate Now

Please open your heart. Give the gift that keeps on giving. To donate click on the button below or copy VisionLINQ’s GoFundMe page URL to your browser:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/visionlinq-captions-video-touch-phone