Task Community Care

Socially monitored alarms and telecare were first introduced to Ireland in 1991, by the launch of a jointly operated scheme between Dublin City Council and the Health Board. The scheme provided funding for monitored alarms to vulnerable members of the community. Monitoring of the alarms was initially carried out by Dublin Fire Authority, but was transferred to TASK Community Care later that same year. This was the beginning of TASK, as Ireland's first social alarm and telecare company, introducing what was then a novel form of care into the home. Today, telecare is recognised, as a welcome alternative to hospitalization and more expensive forms of care.