The safety and well-being of seniors living with Alzheimer’s or other dementias can be the cause of ceaseless preoccupation and intense concern for family or professional caregivers. MainStreet MD, with the benefit of quick, plug-and-play installation, has designed affordable digital audio/video solutions that can provide caregivers with freedom from constant worry, and seniors living with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s with more responsive care. One needn’t be an IT professional to have a MainStreet MD CareCam system up and running in as little as fifteen minutes.

Maintaining simple daily activities or routines—such as doing housework, walking, gardening, or light exercise—has shown to have positive effects on the general health and mental functioning of seniors living with Alzheimer’s. The MainStreet MD CareCam systems can be instrumental in assuring family and professionals that the seniors in their care are stable and remaining active, free from the symptoms of debilitating depression, or sudden outbursts of confusion, anger or anxiety.

How it Works

The MainStreet MD CareCam employs Ethernet-over-power to transmit video signals through the electrical system of the premises. There are no costly expenditures on, nor additional, coaxial cables to run. One can have six cameras online, per modem adapter, through MainStreet MD’s Single Channel Gateway. The video, both recorded and live, maybe accessed locally or remotely on a PC, Mac, smartphone, or cell phone. The interface to the camera deploys pan-and-tilt technology, which allows the family or professional caregiver to remotely change the cameras’ point of view to allow maximum coverage.

The MainStreet MD CareCam, like CareCam Professional, utilizes innovative motion detection software that permits the family or professional caregiver to create up to five accounts where designated members of the “buddy” or support system can receive email notifications if an event has occurred that requires their immediate attention. Should the camera detect movement that signals an accident, caregivers receive an email alert notification.

The MainStreet MD CareCam streams live digital video and audio over the Internet, using a local high-speed Internet access point. However, it does not require a local a local Internet Video Recorder (IVR) at the senior’s residence. Rather, a maximum of 150-minutes of video and audio are stored in seventeen-second increments on a safe, secure HIPPA compliant file server, which is maintained by a leading data security firm.

For the MainStreet MD CareCam Professional, the video and audio are stored on a local Internet Video Recorder (IVR) at the senior’s residence. Each camera is also equipped with a built-in microphone, which thus allows for live, two-way communication. The IVR can record up the 30-days of video footage and does not require additional servers or affect the speed of a local area network, since no additional bandwidth is required. It can utilize any type of high-speed Internet access such as a cable modem from Cox, Time Warner or Comcast. Video footage can be accessed locally or remotely; it can be catalogued, edited to create clips, time-stamped, downloaded to a PC and transmitted over secure HIPPA compliant Web Mail.