The Hogeway care home near Amsterdam provides an environment for dementia sufferers which is quite unlike what we see in memory care units. It is an eight ‘house’ community built around a large enclosed courtyard where residents are free to
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Brain injury research study: progress is 'ordered, predictable'
This past week, brain injury once again has made sad headlines in the US this weekend with the public suicide of an NFL linebacker, following his murder of the mother of his child. Reportedly, Jovan Belcher of the Kansas City
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'Ambient assisted living' in Europe
Sensor-based and M2M technologies in European trials (one cutely named MonAMI) are working together to find their market. Forty developers of ‘ambient assisted living’ devices, such as DoorSure, WindowSure (doors and windows open/unlocked), AppSure (kettle or cooker on) and SUREZone
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October's Telecare LIN newsletter published (UK)
October’s Telecare LIN newsletter has been published and covers the conference season and recent announcements on dementia and housing funding, technology for nurses and the possibility of a paperless NHS by the end of 2015. New NHS bodies are being
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Does 'accelerator funding' illustrate telehealth trends?
If you assume that the latest class selection of a ‘digital health accelerator’, Rock Health, is indicative of trends in the field, then you should be developing in the following areas: matching patients and providers; connecting a device with a
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Investor alert: sit in on pitches by nine health startups
Blueprint Health, the NYC-based healthcare tech accelerator and mentoring center, held their ‘Demo Day’ featuring its current class of nine startups last Thursday (repeated today at the Health 2.0 National conference in San Francisco). Many of these were also previewed
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NFL donates $30 million to FNIH for TBI research (US)
TA readers who read yesterday’s announcement of the National Football League‘s $30 million donation to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) for brain injury research will recall that it follows last month’s less-publicized announcement of the joint
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Highland Testbed for Telecare Development (UK)
Telecare as in ‘telehealth’, it seems. Albyn Housing, in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, has funding for a project and is open to suggestions from companies that have something new to bring to market. The call for expressions of interest
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August 2012 Telecare LIN Newsletter published (UK)
August’s Telecare LIN Newsletter (PDF) has been published. There are two supplements: Evaluations, Journal Articles & Surveys (January to June 2012) and Useful Links (news items, etc.). The newsletter contains information on: publication of the second journal article covering the
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'Revolutionary' care home for dementia support opens (UK)
A new care home providing dementia support is said, by the owners, to be set to revolutionise care in Britain and they are going to build a lot more. Anchor Trust – a not-for-profit provider of housing and care for
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