#002 Preparation of the SOS is the cradle for extreme distress
Channel: Assistive Care
Date: 2022-01-31

When you are living life fully you have to find a way to solve every problem on the road.  Carers, family or friends of a vulnerable person, or the person need to be particularly well prepared for extreme situations where recovery or further assistance to complete a difficult journey is required. 

In this episode we will look at SOS such as when caring for a vulnerable person. We will look at the preparation of user identification information, the special envelope of information users may need to pass on to a care or support team in an extreme situation and how this communication can be technologically assisted. 

We will simply focus here on the action of raising the SOS and linking it to a pre-pared message. In future episodes we plan to also include adding more context to an SOS situation such as providing physiological, or location tracking information leading up to SOS event alongside the prepared message.

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🔷 WHAT TO WATCH NEXT
Find assistive technologies that match your needs from our play list themed on the daily activity context in which the technology can be used. We also plan future episodes on more complex SOS trigger points and location tracking that will add links to here when it is published.

🔷 LINKS

How to set up SOS on mobile phones
https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/10/how-to-make-an-emergency-sos-call-from-your-mobile-phone/

The Herbert Protocol 
https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/media/downloads/central/advice/herbert-protocol/herbert-protocol-form.pdf

Health records
https://www.iso.org/standard/67868.html

Europe - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
https://gdpr.eu/

USA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, 1996 (HIPAA)
https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/hipaa.html

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