Specialties · Geriatric care
TVshuru Health for geriatric care
Older adults are the largest group of inpatients and the most vulnerable to the hazards of hospitalization — delirium, falls, deconditioning, and isolation. A calm, accessible bedside screen can carry many of the evidence-based practices that prevent them.
Hospitalization is uniquely risky for older people. Unfamiliar surroundings, disrupted sleep, sensory impairment, and long stretches alone can tip a frail patient into delirium — an acute confusional state that is common, costly, and largely preventable. The one-year health-care costs attributable to delirium have been estimated at $16,303 to $64,421 per patient, implying a national burden in the tens of billions of dollars.4 Much of what prevents it is not a drug but a routine: reorientation, cognitive stimulation, sleep protection, and keeping glasses and hearing aids in use.
Those are exactly the routines a bedside platform can help deliver consistently. The Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) — a multicomponent model built on daily reorientation, therapeutic activities, and vision and hearing optimization — has been shown in a meta-analysis of 12 studies and 3,605 patients to reduce the odds of delirium by 53% and the odds of falling by 42%.1 A separate Cochrane review found multicomponent non-pharmacological interventions cut delirium incidence from 18.4% to 10.5%.3 TVshuru Health cannot replace the volunteers and nurses who make HELP work — but it can prompt, schedule, and reinforce those human touchpoints at every bed.
Where TVshuru Health helps on a geriatric ward
Gentle reorientation
The home screen always shows the date, place, care team, and what is happening today — a quiet, repeatable anchor for patients at risk of confusion.
Delirium & sleep support
Cognitive-stimulation content by day and a wind-down, low-light mode by night support the sleep and orientation routines at the heart of delirium prevention.
Fall-prevention prompts
Clear "call, don't fall" messaging and easy one-press requests for help getting to the bathroom reduce the unassisted movement that leads to falls.
Vision & hearing first
Large type, high contrast, captions, and assistive audio meet the sensory needs of an older population — a design requirement, not an add-on.
Fighting isolation
One-touch video calls keep family present. In older hospitalized adults, video calls reduced anxiety and fear more than phone calls — and 73.5% of patients chose video when offered.5
Designed for digital newcomers
Reviews of older-adult technology adoption point to simple design, clear instructions, on-hand support, and family involvement as the decisive facilitators — the exact principles behind TVshuru Health's interface.6
The goal on a geriatric ward: deliver the small, repeatable practices that prevent delirium and falls — reorientation, sensory support, connection, and easy calls for help — consistently, at every bed, without adding to the nursing workload.
Why accessibility is the whole design
Disabling hearing loss affects 22% of adults aged 65–74 and 55% of those over 75,7 and more than one in four U.S. adults reports a disability, rising to roughly two in five among people over 65.8 For a geriatric population, captioning, assistive audio, large high-contrast type, and remote-first navigation are not optional refinements — they are the baseline that makes engagement possible at all. TVshuru Health is built to the accessibility expectations set by the ADA's effective-communication rule and Section 508.9
Sources and further reading
- Hshieh TT, et al. Hospital Elder Life Program: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2018. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6362826
- Non-pharmacological interventions for preventing delirium in hospitalised non-ICU patients. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2021. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8407051
- One-Year Health Care Costs Associated With Delirium in the Elderly. Archives of Internal Medicine, 2008. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4559525
- Dürst AV, et al. Video calls for older hospitalized patients (SILVER study). Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2022. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9261146
- Barriers to and Facilitators of Digital Health Technology Adoption Among Older Adults: Updated Systematic Review. JMIR Aging, 2025. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12464506
- NIDCD/NIH. Quick Statistics About Hearing, 2024. nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/quick-statistics-hearing
- American Hospital Association (CDC data): 1 in 4 U.S. adults has a disability, 2018. aha.org/news/headline/2018-08-16-cdc-1-4-us-adults-has-disability
- U.S. Department of Justice. ADA effective communication requirements, 2020. ada.gov/resources/effective-communication
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