MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHOD

A system for monitoring a plurality of persons in an assisted living facility includes a local system in the assisted living facility. The local system includes a plurality of sensor systems. Each of the plurality of sensor systems is adapted to monitor changes in state of at least one monitored system caused by activity or lack of activity of at least one of the plurality of persons. The plurality of sensor systems include a plurality of presence sensors adapted to determine at least the presence or the absence of each one of the plurality of persons on a bed thereof or on a wheelchair thereof. The local system further includes a local communication device in communicative connection with each of the plurality of sensor systems to receive data from each of the plurality of sensor systems. The system further includes a remote system in communication with the local communication device. The remote system includes a processing system to process data from the plurality of sensor systems based upon predetermined rules. The remote system is adapted to provide an alert to at least one caregiver including at least one of (i) a fall alert and (ii) a condition alert related to at least one metric of bed use determined by the remote system and related to a potential change in condition of one of the plurality of persons.