Telecare for people with learning disabilities
Tunstall press release promoting its Learning Disabilities Technology Guide
Month: March 2006
Self-install alert system (US)
See how a basic alarm system can be sold over the internet.
Retiring to Spain?
Read these thought-provoking statistics on numbers of older people and carers in the province of Malaga. Also has interesting section at the end re Spain’s forthcoming equivalent of FACS.
6th Nordic Conference on eHealth and Telemedicine
The 6th Nordic Conference on eHealth and Telemedicine (NCeHT2006) will be held in Helsinki, Finland, on August 31 and September 1, 2006 with the theme: “From Tools to Services”. NCeHT2006 is the biannual scientific meeting of the Nordic Telemedicine Association.
Alertacall challenges councils on PTG funding and target numbers
Alertacall Ltd. has written to directors of adult social care challenging them to increase the amount of PTG funding they have available to spend on people with high-level telecare needs from £500 to £960 — and to do so whilst meeting half their target number of people benefiting from telecare.
Dr. Technology will see you now
Neat little blog entry on telemedicine contains simple message and links to further information.
Local news examples
Our recent newsletter mentioned that we occasionally log examples of local publicity. Some are upbeat and others miss the mark. Here is one of each:
Happy 150th birthday: a new era looms for old age
Modern medicine is redefining old age and may soon allow people to live regularly beyond the current upper limit of 120 years, experts said on Wednesday. It used to be thought there was some inbuilt limit on lifespan, but a group of scientists meeting at Oxford University for a conference on life extension and enhancement consigned that idea to the dustbin.
Pennsylvania Senior Alert System Act
The proposed Pennsylvania Senior Alert System Act is under review in the state House. The measure would require guardians or health care providers to notify authorities of any missing person over age 18 with a condition that leaves him or her confused or dependent on others.
£3m waste of space
Cheshire West PCT spokeswoman said the Royal College of Physicians’s report on the way older people’s services should be provided and the recent White Paper ‘had to be taken into consideration before we settle on a preferred option for the long-term use of the new unit which delivers best value for patients and the public purse.’