GPS and the privacy debate
This article is about a watch-sized GPS device for convicted drunken drivers. The privacy debate is relevant to telecare.
Day: 18 October 2005
SCHIP schape and Somerset fashion
Nice publicity for local home improvement programme
Privately owned "extra care" schemes
The theory is simple: buy your own house or flat, designed specifically for later years, within a development that has age restrictions on ownership (usually about 60), with all support taken care of, from leaky taps and shopping to personal care, as needed. It’s a stage up from classic sheltered housing, which typically provides a warden and little else.
Telecare in Newham
Brief summary of Home Telehealth’s Newham project.
IBM technology freebies for disabled/aging
IBM is offering free assistive software downloads as part of its continuing efforts to promote products aimed at aging baby boomers and people with disabilities.
Pensioner mortality rapidly improving: actuarial report
The detailed figures provide a dramatic illustration of just how fast pensioner mortality has improved in the UK.
Mobile phone transmits your ECG
Engineers at Loughborough University have devised a mobile phone that easily receive, collate and send a person’s ECG and other vital signs and send them directly to clinicians, eliminating the need for large, fixed, telecare systems in patients’ homes.