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.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Care for the elderly is a vital cog in the healthcare machinery; however, caregivers often sideline the need to enable the general population to deal with current healthcare issues. The personal emergency response systems/services (PERS) market is likely to be the cornerstone of telehealth services in the next 20 years and will be critical to elderly care in an emergency.
HOUSTON – Veterans with chronic medical conditions requiring frequent monitoring now have access to a wide variety of convenient, easy-to-use telemedicine devices that send daily health updates from their homes to VA health care providers.
