Becky Bashor lives 800 miles away from her mother but she can still tell whether she’s had a good or a bad day. She sits down at her computer and signs on to AttentiveCare, an Internet-based service that connects caregivers… Read more…just watch unnoticed
Further to Guy Dewsbury’s Telecare Soapbox item When ‘Smart’ is not smart enough (see also comments posted) this article from HiddenWires explores some of the obstacles to ‘real’ smart home adoption in the UK.
Ricability (the trading name of the Research Institute for Consumer Affairs) is an excellent independent consumer research charity in the disability arena, for people of all ages. Recent publications include What’s New? which has a telecare products update. Download and… Read moreRicability publication: What's New? (UK)
The Epilert consists of a hand or foot sensor unit device worn by the patient (the size of a watch) which detects movements and vibrations process and identifies it as an epileptic seizure rather than a normal non-epileptic movement. In… Read moreEpilert – an Israeli warning system for epileptic seizures
Swindon on 29 August 2007 and Cardiff on 4 September. For practitioners, managers, policy staff and other stakeholders. The course tutor is Malcolm Fisk, author of Social Alarms to Telecare: Older People’s Services in Transition, Chairman of the Telecare Services… Read moreDay Course: Developing Effective Telecare (UK)
Interesting article about the self-help ageing at home movement in the US. How would this concept, so embedded in the American culture of non-dependence on the state, translate into a UK or European context? What’s missing from the article is… Read moreA Grass-Roots Effort to Grow Old at Home (US)
Published by Tunstall, apparently in June. the press release quotes an endorsement from atdementia.org, but I can’t find reference to the publication on their web site. Brochure download.
The Smart House movement pre-dates the introduction of telecare. Guy Dewsbury challenges the current trend of branding telecare-enabled accommodation as ‘smart’. Read his Telecare Soapbox item.
The British Journal of Healthcare Computing is running its second telecare event, in Birmingham on 27th September 2007. The day will focus on case-history presentations and is free for participants from the NHS, social services and third sector organisations. More… Read moreFree telecare conference (UK)
This article calls for the wide-scale introduction of telecare in Edinburgh to tackle its chronic problem of people who are occupying hospital beds because they have not been found an alternative place of care (‘bed blockers’). The author draws unfavourable… Read moreCalls for telecare in Edinburgh (UK)
