New government program helps older Americans and veterans stay in the community versus nursing homes.
Social networking site usage connects seniors to the outside world.
Philips helps the hospital continues to move into the home with a portable ventilator.
A Boston study about using web camera and telephone to consult with a patient.
Assertion that mobile phones are pervasive and non-use of broadband is due to lack of relevance.
As population ceases driving -- how will seniors get around? Non-profit Paratransit offers an option.
Connecticut’s elderly population will increase 69 percent by the year 2030 while the number of direct-care health workers is expected to decline 10 percent, the report states.
Trial shows that receiving automated e-mail reminders to do healthy activities works.
System tries to reduce hospitalizations and re-admissions.
The NY Times New Old Age discusses making e-mail more accessible.
Not ADLS (Activities of daily living), but ODLs (Observations of daily living).
Lowest paid, more of them needed, unassisted by any monitoring technology.
No incentives for prevention. Empty beds mean lost revenue.
Benefits of mind exercises as useful, though underused, for those with cognitive impairments.
By 2007, number of 55+ living in adult-only communities still low -- grew from 2% to 3%.
Older adults told that older adults do poorly, indeed do more poorly on memory test than those not told.
The boomers offer advertisers “an audience that has assets, not allowances."
This also applys to care for and about seniors.
Consumers interested in PHR; seniors very interested in home monitoring.
Helping vision-impaired seniors access Internet
Technology changes everything -- not always correctly.
