POSTS TAGGED AS aging

She Donated Her Genome to Science

Known only as “W115,” a 115 year old woman-before her death she was the oldest known living person-had her [MORE]

Chronic Pain: 116m People and Rising

Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education & Research is the title of an Institute [MORE]

Companies that Measure Telomeres

What if it was possible to measure the length of a person’s chromosomes and use that calculation to infer life [MORE]

Grants for Home Monitoring CHF

The Center for Technology and Aging (Oakland, CA) awarded grants this summer to five organizations with projects for remote patient [MORE]

Nanobiosensors for Elders

ActiveCare, Inc.(West Valley City, UT), makers of  the “ActiveOne+” monitoring watch, and Vista Therapeutics (Santa Fe, NM), developers of [MORE]

Huge Market Growth in Detecting AAA and PAD

Driven by stents in treating abdominal aortic aneurysms and peripheral arterial disease, market watchers are predicting business for detecting and [MORE]

Medicare Readmissions

Just like passing the baton in a team relay race, hospital discharges to the patient’s home can be tricky [MORE]

Eldercare Costs Rising

Apropos to this year’s Medical Automation International Conference, a recent report presents cost figures for eldercare between 1996 and 2006.  [MORE]

Dr. Hayflick on Aging: The Ultimate Disruptive Innovation

People have long dreamed about slowing or even reversing the human aging process and, theoretically at least, those goals may [MORE]

Elder Games

If you presume the elderly are intimidated by computer technology and resist being engaged electronically, think again.  The European Union [MORE]

Ambient Assisted Living

PERSONA, a project of the European Union that promotes independent aging, has been functioning since 2007 and will continue until [MORE]

Pain Management Guidelines

CMS released, on April 10, new standards for pain management in elderly patients that nursing homes and assisted living facilities [MORE]

Eldercare Data

The National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging is a project funded through the National Institute on Aging.  It acquires [MORE]

Nursing Home Evictions

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