Access control for adult day care, memory care and residential treatment
In these facilities an unexpected door event is a safety event. Malibu tells the staff who need to know the moment one happens.
The door is a safety device here, not just a lock
Malibu is installed in adult day care centers, adult memory care facilities and halfway houses. What those have in common isn't the building — it's that a door doing something unexpected is a safety event, and somebody needs to know about it right now rather than at the end of a shift.
A conventional access control system answers one question: is this person allowed through this door? That's necessary, and it isn't what these facilities are buying. They're buying the second question — what happened at this door that shouldn't have, and who has been told about it?
Event notifications, which is what these facilities actually buy
Door propped open
A door held open past the time you set — a wedged fire door, a delivery someone left standing open — reports itself instead of waiting to be noticed.
Unauthorized exit
Someone leaves through a door they aren't permitted to use. In memory care this is the alert the whole system is bought for.
Forced or unexpected opening
A door opened without a valid credential is an event in its own right, logged with the time it happened.
How the alert reaches someone
Set per door, in any combination. Nobody has to be watching a monitor for any of it to work.
- Text message to staff phones
- Email to whoever needs the record
- External audible alarm at the door
In a building with floors, the elevator is one of these doors
Everything above is about openings that tell you something happened. In a multi-storey facility the elevator is one of them, and it's the one that moves people between floors with nobody standing there watching it happen.
Malibu can control which floors a car will release, so a floor that isn't meant to be reached by whoever happens to be in the lobby isn't reachable from there — a visitor who came in behind someone else, a delivery looking for a service entrance, someone who simply pressed a button. More to the point on this page, those events join the same stream as every other door: an attempt on a floor a credential doesn't cover, or a car held at a floor, reaches staff the same way a propped exterior door does, by text, email or an audible alert.
What this is not, stated plainly, because it would be easy to read more into it: floor control is not supervision, and it does not by itself constitute a secure or locked unit in the sense a licensing body means. It restricts where a car will stop and it records what was attempted. Any arrangement that bears on how residents move through the building, or how anyone leaves it in an emergency, belongs with your authority having jurisdiction and a Dealer — the same routing as the fire code and egress question further down this page, for the same reason.
Capacity is far past what these buildings need — one controller covers 40 floors — so the practical question is never how many floors but whether it works with the elevator you have. That depends on the equipment and its age, and it's answered by the company that services it together with a Dealer.
Where it's installed
Adult day care
Participants arrive and leave throughout the day, often with family members or transport drivers who aren't staff. Entry is controlled without turning the front door into a checkpoint, and staff-only areas — medication storage, offices, kitchens — stay separated from participant areas.
Adult memory care
Elopement is the defining risk, and it's why perimeter doors here are monitored rather than just locked. A resident reaching an exterior door generates an alert to the staff who are with residents, not to a monitor nobody is watching. Interior secured wings work the same way.
Halfway houses and residential treatment
Accountability is the requirement: who came in, who went out, and when. Every door event is recorded against a credential and a timestamp, so the record exists without staff keeping a manual log at a desk.
Malibu is sold and installed through certified Dealers, who handle the design, the wiring and the code questions for your building. Find a Dealer near you, or read more about what makes Malibu different.
Common questions
Talk through your facility
Every building's doors and staffing are different, and which doors should alert — and how — is a conversation worth having before anything is quoted. Book a demo or find a Dealer near you.