Meeting the preferences of aging family, but harming caregiver's own prospects.
Montgomery County Commission on Aging, September, 2024
For those seniors with diminishing vision, note the mention of the iPod touch with spoken commands and a GPS device that reads streets and store names aloud.
AARP in this South Florida area picks up costs for those who cannot pay.
Appears not to matter how much or whethr it is part-time or self-employment.
Could the resolve to remain self-sufficient in later life be self-defeating?
Daughter gives mother a computer -- she goes to training.
Camera worn around the neck during the day -- helps to prompt memory.
Obvious question if this is proven, shouldn't cognitive fitness software act more like video games?
A business starts up in California to connect young people to isolated seniors.
Services and community form around the residents who continue to live at home.
Rebranded to not constrain participation to any specific age. If AARP can move down-age, why not ElderHostel?
A 'perfect storm' of funding cuts threaten closure of US nursing homes, say industry officials.
No surprise: "Technology has advanced to the point that telemedicine is beginning to blur into the normal daily routine of a doctor."
As usually, no technology mentioned -- not even where the phone is -- but otherwise a good list.
Remote monitoring of patients will be a significant market globally.
Information Week notes that wireless technologies like LoJack are useful.
Geriatric care managers help - an opportunity for technologists to help them.
Including reduction in the time to qualify for 'Money follows the person'.
Home health monitoring market reached $11 billion in 2008 according to report from Berg Insight.
Warnings issued on risk of choking on a PERS pendant.
Business Week validates Aging in Place Technology Market -- articles on Philips, Intel, GE, others.
Around the world, numbers rising of people with some sort of dementia.