US-based, but of interest to readers anywhere in the ‘sandwich gen’ dealing with eldercare issues or responsible for products/services oriented to them plus the safety and wellness of older adults. ZDNet Health is an unexpected source for this list of Twitter feeds on… Read more7 eldercare Twitter feeds (US)

If your product or service has a mobile component and you can demonstrate that it improves people’s behaviour when it comes to health, then consider nominating it for the Health Behavior Awards 2011. Here’s the link to the fairly painless… Read morePersuasive Tech Lab Health Behavior Award nominations sought

Jo Dalton is an ex-Intel innovation centre employee turned businessman with an ambition to turn Ireland into an ‘international healthcare services centre’. His international service will build on a health monitoring service he intends to launch in the summer, which… Read moreIreland as an 'international healthcare services centre'?

The ‘Who’s Available?’ job seekers’ page is back for people looking for employment in the telehealth and telecare fields to post – free of charge – about their availability. See ‘Jobs‘ menu item above.

Skyguard Ltd., which has recently become active in the UK telecare market, today reveals the MySOS key-fob sized device which “weighs just 40 grams and is small enough to be conveniently and discretely [sic] worn as a pendant, or attached… Read moreSkyguard reveals "UK’s smallest personal safety device"

According to Housing e-Academy, “the housing sector has been slow to switch on to the range of telecare available and the huge benefits it could bring to their residents” so they have set up an online course An Introduction to… Read moreFree telecare course for housing workers and tenants

The Yorkshire Post yesterday ran a ‘local company does well’ story on Tunstall’s success in the Northern Ireland Remote Monitoring Service tender. It also reports that the Leeds office of law firm DLA Piper advised ECCH on the procurement. You… Read moreTunstall's local paper reveals more on NI contract

In August last year we pointed out Google’s toe-curlingly condescending approach to older people and video chat. Later, in December, they decided to do the same for ‘parents’. Google Launches Site for Teaching Tech to Your Parents (Google blog). The… Read moreGoogle continues to patronise older people

Pity the poor civil servant tasked with writing a speech for the Secretary of State for Health to deliver at the HC2011 informatics conference in Birmingham on Tuesday. Somehow you have to say something positive about health AND relate it… Read moreAndrew Lansley says telehealth will transform NHS