fall prevention

Crown Dynamics is now ready to enter a $14.5 Billion US healthcare market opportunity with its proprietary hardware and software solution

01/31/2012

ATLANTA, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Crown Dynamics Corporation (OTCBB: CDYYD.OB), is pleased to announce that the company is now ready to enter a $14.5 Billion US healthcare market opportunity with its proprietary hardware and software solution.

With over 30 million seniors living alone in the US and growth accelerating rapidly with baby-boomers, there has never been more need for a technology solution that provides people in need with a sense of safety and independence. >>> Read more . . .

Virginia Tech: Sensor that could stop falls by elderly, before they happen

YARP -- Yet another research project funded by an NSF grant.

12/17/2011

When tech has too much press, too little lasting presence

Research projects as products-to-be.  Remember the iShoe?  A hopeful research project, led by Erez Lieberman at MIT who won a prize in 2008 for designing it. It was to be tested by Ohio Health, to be available as a product in 2010 for $100.  Someone asked me about it recently – sadly, there is no iShoe for you to buy. Maybe Ohio Health had some difficulty emerge during testing.  Of course, there is also no article announcing the end of the iShoe project and concept.  People remember it, though, and they confuse it with the now-available GPS shoe >>> Read more . . .

Virginia Tech build sensor to stop falls before they happen

Researchers are creating a portable fall prediction monitoring system for early detection of fall risks.

08/18/2011

Watching their steps

Boston study categorizes and analyzes reported falls of elderly study participants.

07/04/2011

New Partnership Promotes Development of Advanced Fall Detection System for Senior Living Market

05/06/2011

Continuing its growth, Halo Monitoring, an aging-in-place technology company today announced it is partnering with Tel-Tron Technologies Corporation, a technology leader in the business of aging, to develop a version of the myHalo medical alarm system for the senior living market. >>> Read more . . .

Technology Helps Children Switch Roles

Fall detection alerting technology helps keep parents of adult children safer.

04/13/2011

A New Aging in Place Solution

ActiveCare gets a thumbs up from a Wall Street analyst.

03/12/2011

Innovations could reduce seniors' injuries from falls

Bouncy floors, the way to preventing injuries from falls. 

02/06/2011
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