by Liz Seegert The Federal Long Term Care Commission is about to issue a report on the deepening care crisis facing the nation’s aging population. Recently, several major organizations – including AARP and the National Council on Aging – have supported a greater role for home and community-based services, including home health care. Not […]
CHICAGO, — March 13, 2013 — Ken Dychtwald Ph.D., one of the world’s foremost visionaries and original thinkers in the field of aging, has just been named the 2013 recipient of the American Society on Aging Leadership Award. The ASA is the largest association of professionals in the field of aging/gerontology. Their 5,000+ members […]
by Audrey Kinsella Philips Lifeline has introduced a free mobile app to help caregivers track care provided to elders living at home. Unlike other such tracking systems we have recently profiled, Philips’ CarePartners Mobile App has no pre-set “to-do” lists specifying task to be completed for elders’ various needs. In this regard, it appear to […]
By Audrey Kinsella In addition to the hands-off, low-touch medical devices we saw in October at the recent Connected Health conference (see HCTR, 11/28/12, “New Tools Help Patients Self-Manage Health, Chronic Conditions”), other vendors demonstrated devices that were somewhat more, shall we say, in your face. Avatars and Robots There is a new breed of […]
AgeTech California announced the formation of “AgeTech West” at its third Conference and Technology Exposition on November 15. The new effort expands on AgeTech California’s partnership structure between Aging Services of California and the California Association of Health Services at Home by expanding to include two additional nonprofit founding associations, LeadingAge Oregon and LeadingAge Washington. […]
by Audrey Kinsella The number of digital tools available to help people manage their own health is on the rise. Presentations at last month’s Connected Health Symposium stressed the need to engage patients with their own health maintenance. An equal number of product demonstrations proved that the tools to meet that need are already here, […]
by Audrey Kinsella Last week’s 2012 NAHC Annual Meeting provided a cogent summary of home healthcare technology’s activities and progress, supporting the conference program’s cited need for the entrée of high-tech products for use by an “age wave of graying boomers.” Examples from Philips Home Health Solutions and Honeywell/HomMed are provided in this article.
Product Review: Honeywell HomMed’s Mobile PERS Lets People Carry Safety Net With Them by Audrey Kinsella LifeStream™ MobileHelp® is a package of products and services for tracking and managing clients’ activities on an as-needed basis. Like Great Call’s 5Star Urgent Response™ system, now being incorporated into Independa, Inc.’s Artemis™ wireless monitoring ecosystem (see “Safe at […]
by Liz Seegert With one political convention wrapping up this week and another beginning Monday, we assigned staff writer Liz Seegert to study the published platforms of each party and analyze how home care and hospice would be affected if the Medicare sections of either platform were to become law. First up, the Republican Party […]
