In contrast to last Friday’s ‘hash’ of an article, the New York Times has not one, but two worthy articles on monitoring technologies. For your weekend reading:
- ‘Technologies Help Adult Children Monitor Aging Parents’ profiles real families using (in order) GrandCare‘s behavioral/telehealth/connectedness system (Trillium; see HomeBase debut below), MedMinder, QuietCare (via Selfhelp) and a relative newcomer, BeClose‘s sensor-based monitoring system.
- ‘The Technology for Monitoring Elderly Relatives’ is an overview of well-known and some not so well known services, products and pricing: Lotsa Helping Hands, Philips Lifeline and their new Auto-Alert fall detection option, GrandCare, Ideal Life (to go DTC in early 2011), Philips’ medication dispenser and GPS monitors (MobileHelp, ActiveCare).