The more tech is commercialized, the more researchers ignore it. It’s so interesting and fun to read about research that is going to help seniors, don’t you think? Reporters love to write it, readers love to read it. Someday, they say and readers agree, there will be tech that will finally help us age in our own homes. A recent AARP Bulletin offered up an article about living laboratory research into ‘possibilities’ for improving our capabilities for independent living/aka aging in place. We can feel good that work goes on at Orcatech, at Mayo Clinic, and MIT's Age Lab. And many others have researched the same exact categories previously, as noted in 2008 in one of the very first blogs on this site. As always, the researchers interviewed offered no observations about whether there were commercial versions that were viable for consumers, and really, no acknowledgement of commercial vendors at all. Guess that’s not the point of research.
TORONTO - April 29, 2011 - Responsible for 89,000 premature deaths and $100 billion in avoidable hospitalizations annually1, medication non-adherence is one of healthcare's most serious and costly challenges. Offering consumers, providers, family members and the healthcare community a real solution to this serious problem, IDEAL LIFE Inc., the ISO-certified industry leader in remote health management solutions, introduces a wireless medication management tool as the latest addition to its revolutionary medical system.
Wellesley, MA (Boston) -- ePill, the leading provider of medication reminders, makes a Medication Reminder that fits right on your wrist. The easy-to-set e-pill CADEX Medication Reminder 12 Alarm Watch with Medical ID (www.cadexwatch.com) can alert you to take your medications up to 12 times per day.
Patented Personal Medication Manager Integrates the Capabilities of Pillboxes, Reminders, Pill Dispensers and Medication Alert Devices into Single Easy-to-Use Device.
Lots of 'health' invention. Next week I am going to Connected Health in Boston, where I will no doubt walk up and down aisles filled with medication management, chronic disease devices, and every type of tech to help doctors do a better job of care of their patients -- and presumably to help patients take better care of themselves.
