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title: "TVshuru Health for Geriatric Care"
description: "How interactive bedside engagement supports geriatric wards: delirium and fall-prevention prompts, reorientation, accessibility, and video calls that fight isolation for older inpatients."
url: "https://health.tvshuru.com/specialty-geriatric-care.html"
last_updated: "2026-07-15"
specialty: "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. One-year health-care costs attributable to delirium have been estimated at $16,303–$64,421 per patient [4]. Much of what prevents delirium is a routine, not a drug: reorientation, cognitive stimulation, sleep protection, and keeping glasses and hearing aids in use.

The Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) reduced the odds of delirium by 53% and falls by 42% across 12 studies and 3,605 patients [1]; a Cochrane review found multicomponent non-pharmacological interventions cut delirium incidence from 18.4% to 10.5% [3]. TVshuru Health cannot replace the people who make HELP work, but it can prompt, schedule, and reinforce those touchpoints at every bed.

## Where TVshuru Health helps on a geriatric ward

- **Gentle reorientation** — date, place, care team, and today's plan always on the home screen.
- **Delirium & sleep support** — cognitive stimulation by day, a low-light wind-down mode by night.
- **Fall-prevention prompts** — "call, don't fall" messaging and one-press help to the bathroom.
- **Vision & hearing first** — large type, high contrast, captions, assistive audio.
- **Fighting isolation** — one-touch video calls; video reduced anxiety and fear more than phone calls, and 73.5% of older patients chose video when offered [5].
- **Designed for digital newcomers** — simple design, clear instructions, on-hand support, and family involvement are the decisive facilitators of older-adult tech adoption [6].

## Accessibility is the whole design

Disabling hearing loss affects 22% of adults 65–74 and 55% of those over 75 [7], and more than one in four U.S. adults reports a disability, rising to ~2 in 5 over 65 [8]. Captioning, assistive audio, large high-contrast type, and remote-first navigation are the baseline that makes engagement possible. TVshuru Health is built to the ADA effective-communication rule and Section 508 [9].

## Related reading

- [The bedside TV as a patient engagement platform](blog-bedside-tv-patient-engagement-platform.md)
- [Designing for every patient: accessibility at the bedside](blog-accessibility-at-the-bedside.md)
- [Keeping families connected with bedside video visits](blog-family-video-visits-bedside.md)

## Sources

1. Hshieh TT, et al. Hospital Elder Life Program: meta-analysis. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2018. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6362826/
3. Non-pharmacological interventions for preventing delirium. Cochrane, 2021. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8407051/
4. One-Year Health Care Costs Associated With Delirium. Archives of Internal Medicine, 2008. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4559525/
5. Dürst AV, et al. SILVER video-call study. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2022. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9261146/
6. Digital Health Technology Adoption Among Older Adults. JMIR Aging, 2025. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12464506/
7. NIDCD/NIH. Quick Statistics About Hearing, 2024. https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/quick-statistics-hearing
8. AHA (CDC data): 1 in 4 U.S. adults has a disability, 2018. https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2018-08-16-cdc-1-4-us-adults-has-disability
9. DOJ. ADA effective communication, 2020. https://www.ada.gov/resources/effective-communication/