How big can you make those buttons? Just5, a global provider of mobile phones designed for ease of use, reliability and emergency response, announced the general availability of its new line of mobile phones targeting seniors. The big button phone offers only the basic features for the senior market and focuses on simplicity. The Just5 […]
Category: Senior Care
The folks at SharpBrains recently released their “State of Brain Fitness Market 2010” report that outlines the current landscape of the brain fitness market place and highlights some of recent innovative ideas through its 2010 Brain Fitness Innovation awards. Some of the award winners and finalists include specific project work done for senior living by […]
Philips Applied Technologies, part of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced last month the launch of the market’s first ZigBee Health Care ‘reference design’. The recent ZigBee Health Care specification now also adds medical devices to the growing list of possibilities for ZigBee Wireless Sensor Networks. The small footprint ZigBee design connects to […]
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a new on-line tool that will attempt to help consumers by providing new information and resources that explain the new healthcare changes coming as part of the Affordable Care Act. HealthCare.gov is the first central database of health coverage options, combining information about public […]
ActiveCare Inc. last week announced the availability of its new ActiveOne PAL (Personal Assistance Link) handset. The handset, also a cellular telephone, has one-button service where, when activated, a live operator greets each caller by name, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. ActiveCare services range from GPS location and fall detection, by the […]
Will a Consumer Protection Finance Agency provide greater protection for seniors that could be victims of fraud? Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are in conference to help reduce the odds of that happening this week. According to a recent survey, more than 7.3 million older Americans – one out of every five citizens over the age […]
It’s not like the movie “I, Robot” yet, but watching the video below you can see that this is the future. GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (PINKSHEETS: GCKO) recently announced that it has upgraded and improved its personal assistant robot, the CareBot™ as a result of their ongoing world’s first in home elder care robot evaluation trials. […]
Help the fight against elder abuse this Tuesday with various partners throughout the country and celebrate World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEADD). The key objective of is to raise awareness of elder abuse (which encompasses neglect and mal- or mistreatment) throughout the world. Here in the US, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) […]
By Jane Lott One of life’s most painful experiences is coping with a loved one’s death and even the most rational minds can find the simplest decisions difficult when the grieving process occurs. But decisions about closing up the family home become next to impossible and doing the work of sorting, packing and throwing away […]
It’s no secret that senior care costs both real dollars and intangible costs for providing care and those costs are especially high for Alzheimer’s care. A new report released last month from the Alzheimer’s Association, “Changing the Trajectory of Alzheimer’s Disease: A National Imperative” shows that in the absence of disease-modifying treatments, the cumulative costs […]