Every day, clearly scheduled.
Activity schedules, dining menus, family-visitor welcomes and emergency-ready messaging for every resident-facing screen.
Residents forget the paper schedule. They notice the wall.
A care home or assisted-living community runs on routine — breakfast at 8, gentle exercise at 10, lunch at 12, afternoon activities, supper at 5, evening entertainment. Paper schedules crumple, get lost, and don't work for residents with visual impairments or dementia. Hangar.Media puts today's programme on wall-mounted screens in communal areas, dining-room menu boards at service, family-visitor welcome displays at reception, and staff-shift boards in back-of-house. Large-type accessibility mode and multi-language playback are first-class features.
Built for how senior living actually run.
The capabilities that matter in this sector — concrete, specific, and backed by the integrations your team already uses.
Today's programme, at a glance.
Communal-area screens show today's activities (gentle exercise 10am, memory café 2pm, music therapy 3:30, evening film 7pm) in large, easy-to-read type. Residents passing through the lounge see what's on, when, and where. Activity attendance climbs noticeably when the whole community can see what's next.
Residents walk past the lounge and plan their afternoon.
- Large-type accessibility mode for low-vision residents
- Per-activity countdown indicators ('starts in 15 minutes')
- Programme integration with Oomph, Caresys, PCS and custom activity planners
- Staff-mode override for last-minute schedule changes
Lunch menu. Allergen-clear. Dietary-aware.
Dining-room service screens show today's menu (soup, main, dessert, plus vegetarian/vegan/diabetic-friendly alternates) with clear allergen icons per item. Residents on special diets see their approved dishes highlighted. Kitchen changes (item sold out, portion changes) reflect on the screens within minutes.
Residents know what's on lunch before they sit down.
- Per-dining-room menu with meal-of-the-day and dietary alternates
- Allergen icons per dish for Natasha's Law and good-practice compliance
- Diabetic, low-salt, pureed-texture and religious-dietary flags
- Kitchen-side updates (sold-out, portion adjustment) with instant screen refresh
Visitors arrive. The lobby welcomes them by name.
Reception screens surface a discreet welcome when a family visitor arrives — 'Welcome to Oakdene, visiting Mrs Singh' (opt-in, alias-only by default). Combined with a photo of the resident they're visiting (opt-in) for visitors who haven't been before. Small, human touch that families remember.
Families arrive and feel welcomed by name. Not checked in by a clipboard.
- Opt-in resident-photo personalisation at reception welcome screen
- Alias-only display by default for privacy-first operators
- Visitor-sign-in integration with modern care-home management systems
- Visitor-parking and public-transport info on the same reception screen
Large type. High contrast. Audio-described. By default.
Senior-living signage has different accessibility requirements than retail or hospitality — residents include people with low vision, dementia, hearing loss, and mobility impairments. Every screen defaults to large-type, high-contrast mode. Audio-description playback is available for key messaging. Simple-language content is curated for dementia-friendly communities.
Accessibility isn't a toggle. It's the default.
- Large-type and high-contrast default across every screen
- Audio-description playback for key schedule and menu messaging
- Dementia-friendly content curation (simple language, familiar imagery)
- BSL and Makaton video option for key-message tiers
Staff boards, emergency-ready.
Back-of-house screens for staff shift-handover, MAR-sheet reminders, training-CPD schedule and infection-control alerts. Bridge-level emergency override for fire, severe-weather and lockdown events reaches every screen in the home within 10 seconds. Integration with fire-alarm and nurse-call systems is available.
When the fire alarm sounds, every screen knows what to say within 10 seconds.
- Shift-handover boards with confidential-mode for clinical information
- Fire-alarm and nurse-call system integration for auto-trigger
- Severe-weather alerts with action-prompt overlays
- Training and CPD schedule boards with deadline reminders
Every screen in the building.
From customer-facing walls to operational dashboards — the scenarios that make the platform worth running day-to-day.
Today's programme and activity countdown
Large-format lounge screens with today's activities, countdown to the next session and large-type accessibility mode.
Menu and dietary-flag service boards
Dining-service screens with today's menu, allergen icons, dietary-flag alternates and diabetic/low-salt options highlighted.
Family welcome and visitor info
Reception lobby screens with visitor-welcome messages (opt-in personalisation), parking and transport info, and visitor-sign-in prompts.
Wayfinding and gentle reminders
Corridor screens with wayfinding to communal areas, gentle reminders (lunch in 15 minutes, activity starts 10am) and wellbeing content.
Shift handover and compliance boards
Staff-room screens with shift-handover summaries, MAR-sheet reminders, CPD schedule, infection-control alerts and H&S notices.
Family-visitor content and memory walls
Family-visitor lounge screens with resident-event photos (opt-in), home-video playback and memory-therapy content for dementia-aware care.
The integrations that actually matter here.
Every integration is included in every plan. These are the ones senior living operators reach for first.
Meeting Room Booking
Activity-room and consultation scheduling for resident-facing boards.
Learn More →MenuZen
Dining-menu design with allergen icons and dietary-flag support.
Learn More →Weather Forecast
Local weather and outdoor-activity suitability for residents.
Learn More →Weather Alerts
Severe-weather warnings with resident-action prompts.
Learn More →Multi-Language News
Language-routed content for multicultural resident communities.
Learn More →Common questions. Straight answers.
Which care-home management systems do you integrate with?
Person Centred Software (PCS), Caresys, Nourish Care, Epic Care, Oomph, Radar Healthcare, Dental Software Express and FHIR-compatible generic systems. For activity planning we pull from Oomph, Social Roots and custom activity-planner systems. Integration is included in the flat per-screen price. Privacy-first architecture means resident PII never transits to public-facing screens unless explicitly configured with resident or next-of-kin consent.
How does the large-type accessibility mode work?
Every screen defaults to accessibility-appropriate settings — 24pt+ text size, 4.5:1+ contrast ratios, simple-language content curation for dementia-friendly communities. Specific screens can be further upgraded (36pt+ text for low-vision residents, BSL video overlay for deaf residents). Audio-description is available as a toggle for key schedule and menu messaging.
How does the platform handle dementia-friendly content?
Dementia-friendly content uses simple present-tense language ('Lunch is at 12' not 'Lunch will be served at 12'), familiar imagery (crockery, table settings) rather than abstract graphics, and predictable rotation schedules so residents with short-term memory loss see the same content loop at the same time each day. Content can be curated per home based on the resident mix and dementia-care approach.
What does a setup cost for a 40-bed care home?
£5 per screen per month, flat. A typical 40-bed care home with 8 screens (reception, 2 lounge, dining, 2 corridors, staff room, family room) pays £40 per month. Same price whether you run one site or a hundred. No tiers, no per-connector fees, no sector premium.
Adjacent sectors.
Operators in senior living frequently borrow patterns and playbooks from these neighbouring verticals.
Hospitals
Multi-department wayfinding and patient-education content.
PhysiotherapyPhysiotherapy
Rehabilitation-education and exercise-video playback.
Places of WorshipPlaces of Worship
Service schedules and community-event boards for multi-faith support.
Community CentresCommunity Centres
Event calendars and multilingual outreach content.
One price. The whole platform.
That's how we think signage should work. Content editor, screen management, and 200+ app integrations — all included from day one.