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• What is the long lie in senior living?

  The long lie is the time a resident spends on the floor after a fall that no one saw. It is the moment every care team fears, because every minute on the floor makes the next one more dangerous.

  Read the full guide: What is the long lie, and why overnight is the dangerous window

• What are the types of fall detection technology for senior living?

  There are four main approaches: camera-based AI, radar sensors, wearable pendants, and floor mats or bed-exit alarms. Each has a real strength and a real gap, and no single one covers every room in a building well.

  Read the full guide: Fall detection technology compared: cameras, radar, wearables, and floor mats

• Why do fall detection systems fail in nursing homes?

  Fall detection systems fail because of nuisance alarms. Staff learn to ignore a system that cries wolf, and once that happens the system is worthless, or worse, because a real alert now gets the same shrug as the false ones.

  Read the full guide: Why alarm fatigue kills fall-detection programs

• How can a nursing home monitor residents for falls without violating privacy?

  Match the sensor to the room. Use existing cameras only in common areas, use a radar sensor with no lens in bedrooms and bathrooms, keep raw data inside the building, and put what each sensor can and cannot see in writing for families.

  Read the full guide: Privacy-first monitoring in senior living: what families, surveyors, and staff should expect

• What should I ask a fall detection vendor?

  Ask about the bedroom camera, the false-alarm rate measured in a real building, shadow mode before go-live, where the data goes, what the system cannot see, integration with your nurse-call or EHR, the pilot structure, and what they will put in writing.

  Read the full guide: What to ask a fall-detection vendor before you sign