It’s a bit of a hot topic at the moment. The context, for non-UK readers, is: Thousands of older people in the UK still live in sheltered housing schemes – usually clusters of small bungalows, one characteristic of which used… Read morePanorama: different views on loss of wardens
Two stories of miniscule-scale trials of GPS tracking devices with people with dementia. “When John wandered up to the local adult social care offices staff suggested the tracking technology.” From Warwickshire From Fife
No doubt in response to recent vociferous criticism of its lack of a telehealth policy, the Australian Government has announced $60 million (£31m; US$50m) in funding for new remote and rural health, emergency response and education projects that will be… Read moreAustralia to invest $60m in telehealth, emergency response and e-education
Unbelievably, Birmingham Council’s own website headline Big Brother is looking after you undermines a great story of its £1.8 million (US $2.9m) telecare investment in conjunction with NHS Direct and the West Midlands Fire Service.
Well, we knew it had pendants, but it seems that Scotland now has ‘neck alarms‘ too. Silly me! There I was thinking that the market for neck alarms collapsed when Britain abolished hanging in 1969…a classic bit of miscommunication.
Tunstall tries to repair its recent PR fiascos with a warm-fuzzy (i.e. lacking in numbers) telehealth press release concerning a GP practice in Bristol: The Orchard Medical Centre Reports on the Success of Telehealth. Missed the fiascos? The first has… Read moreThe success of telehealth
