Remember Spike Lee’s “It’s the Shoes” commercial featuring Michael Jordan?  Those shoes were special because everyone wanted to Be Like Mike.  Today, everyone wants to be safe, especially those caring for persons with Alzheimer’s disease.  By embedding a part of a Personal Emergency Response Monitoring System (PERS) in a shoe (rather than a phone/device), the [...]

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Want to train your brain or a loved one’s at home?  Dakim BrainFitness recently announced that its software is now being offered for sale via its website for PCs and Macs for use on home and portable computers.  The new software, a DVD package containing 6.5GB worth of content, helps maintain mental acuity with entertaining, [...]

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The iPad is everywhere…everywhere you turn, newspaper, television and websites and the official announcement of iPhone 4 is expected this week as well.   Spending a lot of time in airports and seeing the recent increase in road warriors toting the iPad for personal use, I’ve been searching for a senior user that is carrying one [...]

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Vigilan, provider of software for senior living, announced last week that its Care Suite software for assisted living, independent living and dementia care communities is now compatible with the new Apple iPad(TM).  Vigilan’s CARE suite includes a complete technology package to manage resident care, communication, staffing, marketing, medication management, billing, training and education tracking, and [...]

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Hughes Telematics, Inc. (“HTI”), (OTCBB: HUTC)(OTCBB: HUTCW), Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) and American Medical Alert Corp. (Nasdaq: AMAC) recently announced a joint venture to deliver mobile health services through Lifecomm LLC. The entity, formed with cash and in-kind contributions by the parties, will operate as a majority-owned subsidiary of HTI and plans to launch a [...]

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Touchtown, Inc., a provider of senior living community information systems, was recently awarded a U.S. patent for a key component of Touchtown Safety, the company’s emergency call and notification product. The system is designed to meet the emergency communications needs of the senior living industry by increasing safety for community residents by delivering instructions during [...]

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COLLAGE, The Art & Science of Healthy Aging, a consortium of aging service organizations using an automated assessment system to advance healthy aging, has announced an exclusive agreement with The Center for Information Management, Inc. (CIM), an Ann Arbor, MI-based company. CIM will create, deploy and support web-based tools, a second-generation software package, for COLLAGE [...]

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A new low-tech elder monitoring service called FineThanx recently made its debut that utilizes only the existing phone system at home.  The system calls twice a day find out how an aging loved one is doing and reports the response or lack thereof in either case.  The automated phone service checks in with seniors once [...]

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Remember the phrase “Internet Tsunami” circa 1998?  I read a newspaper article read a few weeks ago that looked back at the dot com bubble and examined at how we have evolved with the internet and technology over the last 10 years.  Take a minute and think of all the dot com clichés …got ‘em [...]

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The TRIL (Technology Research for Independent Living) Centre, Ireland announced this week a new industry partner, GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE). TRIL is a research initiative, founded in January 2007 by Intel Corporation and the IDA Ireland (Industrial Development Agency), to explore the physical, cognitive and social consequences of ageing and design technologies to help address them. [...]

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By Jody O’Donnell, SEO Manager, G5 Search Marketing Many senior housing and living providers ask the million dollar question: Which directories are the best for me to sign up for?  The answer to the question should end “with regards to my SEO?”   When developing your target list of directories, first establish a clear objective. Are [...]

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What do you think about internet sites and their ability to influence decisions for senior housing?  Are you as connected (facebook, twitter) as the media is portraying?  As more and more organizations are touting the connectedness of mature consumers, here is your chance to participate in the study.  Marketing agency Creating Results is conducting a [...]

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