Lifeline was recently the feature organisation in a documentary filmed for South Korean television. Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) spent a day’s filming split between our control centre, and at the home of an elderly alarm user as part of a documentary looking at the ‘Ideal Urban Village and Community’.
Following the decline of the traditional ‘nuclear family’ in South Korea, which is mirrored in the UK, and with the changing demographics of people living longer, more people living with long term conditions, and the family unit being more geographically dispersed; the documentary seeks to look at some of the emerging services that are addressing these changes.
A telecare alarm service such as VNC Lifeline provides, is not currently provided in South Korea and Lifeline was therefore chosen as the focus for the filming in Liverpool. Lifeline’s community alarm system is a 24 hour emergency response service for people wishing to remain living independently at home.
The Korean film crew visited the Alarm Response Centre in Vauxhall before filming at the home of Nancy Flanagan MBE to show first hand how the services works in the home. Nancy Flanagan is one of the founding members of VNC Lifeline, and had the service installed in her own house some years ago. She can testify first hand to the value of the service following a nasty fall resulting in multiple stitches. She received the emergency help she needed by pressing her pendant.
The documentary is due to air in South Korea over the next couple of months, and the Northwest should be rightly proud of a Liverpool-based organisation being selected and showcased in Asia.
For more information about the Lifeline telecare alarm service, please visit www.vnclifeline.co.uk.
