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The Environment Monitors You

CubeSensor
Remember the “8 Ball” toy?  You asked a question, shook the 8 Ball and it gave you an “answer.”  [MORE]

Best Bets on Game Changers

Nanoknife System
The Emergency Care Research Institute, ECRI (Plymouth Meeting, PA), began in 1968 to do research on emergency [MORE]

Medical Innovation Drivers

An executive with Cardinal Health (the pharmaceutical and medical device distribution giant headquartered in Dublin, OH), lists twelve drivers [MORE]

Case Studies of Remote Patient Monitoring

Remote Patient Monitoring
The Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST, Washington, DC) authored this white paper which presents six case [MORE]

Honda and Sekisui House Collaborating on Smart Homes

Honda-Sekisui House Walking assistant
Honda is a familiar name in the American car market, but it also has [MORE]

Lincoln Ataxia

British geneticists have identified a new genetic disease, or, more properly, a new genomic spectrum disorder: neuronal spectrinopathy.  It [MORE]

Eldercare Robots

Companion Able Hector
In the 1950’s, engineer/inventor/entrepreneur Joseph Engelberger built the first industrial robot in the US and [MORE]

Humanoid Robots, See the Videos

HRP4 Robot by Kawada
It still takes a willing suspension of disbelief to imagine human-like robots assisting disabled people in [MORE]

Interstate Medical Monitoring

wearable monitors
The University of Missouri-Columbia is now testing a remote vital signs monitoring system at assisted living facilities in [MORE]

“Magic carpets” for Eldercare

Smart Carpet
“Personalized healthcare” has many dimensions, but a sensored rug that not only can detect falls, but can learn [MORE]

Retire Well

“The Villages,” in central Florida about an hour north of Orlando, is the nation’s largest retirement residential community with [MORE]

Loneliness as a “Co-Morbidity”

Elderly Depression
According to a Harvard study, one in seven adult Americans living alone is at greater risk for cardiovascular [MORE]

Questioning Hospital-at-Home Programs

Hospital at Home
Neither Medicare nor most private insurers support hospital-at-home programs at present, but evidence in favor of [MORE]

Bio-Monitors Behind the Wheel

Drive Lab
Somewhere between the car being an older person’s link to normal living and grandpa running over people on [MORE]