technology

Guest Aging in Place Post- Bree Baldwin

September 28, 2010
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Every two or three years, when my military family moves to a new place, we must learn the culture and customs in our new location.  Just over a year ago, we arrived in Maryland and have noticed an unusual custom peculiar to this area.  Every four months, the Verizon Stork drops a plastic-swaddled phone book […]

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The Same Aging in Place Page

September 17, 2010
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Eric Dishman is well known and very well respected in the worlds of Aging in Place and Health Technologies.  Eric is the face of Intel’s ethnographic research program on aging and technologies. He is an exciting, authentic speaker. Please watch this ‘TEDMed’  presentation. Fantastic. In just 16 minutes Eric provides a wide ranging hit over […]

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MetLife Aging in Place Report

September 13, 2010
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I am pleased and excited to announce Aging in Place 2.0, Rethinking Solutions to the Home Care Challenge,  a report from the MetLife Mature Marketing Institute. The report describes Aging in Place 2.0, the extension of current aging in place to the dynamic and collaborative housing and care system I have long advocated in this […]

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Labor Day: Aging in Place, Caregiving & Technology

September 7, 2010

Caregiving mirrors the social security insolvency dilemma in one important respect: the number of older folks who are needy is growing while the supply pool is shrinking. Ezra Klein covers the social security insolvency issue in Sunday’s Washington Post in some detail. One line sticks out, “As Stephen C. Goss, the system’s chief actuary, has […]

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GE-Intel- Aging in Place #2

August 5, 2010
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Listening to the Webcast of the joint venture announcement from GE and Intel I picked up on the following important remarks. Louis Burns from Intel and Omar Ishrak from GE agree that the technology is not the roadblock holding back the market. The barriers are a combination of two major factors:

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GE-Intel, Aging in Place Technology

August 3, 2010
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The big news is that GE and Intel have formed a far reaching alliance to develop and market technology products that “will help seniors live independently and patients with chronic conditions manage their care from the comfort of their home or wherever they choose”* according to a press release from yesterday’s joint company announcement. What […]

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Aging in Place Excitement!

August 1, 2010
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Late Friday I got an excited email from John Migliaccio, a good friend, colleague and the research director at the MetLife Mature Marketing Institute. John is excited about an article in Thursday’s New York Times, “Technologies Help Adult Children Monitor Aging Parents” about real people using home monitoring technology.  John’s note was simple – “Its […]

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Aging in Place, ;-(, two steps backward?!

July 27, 2010
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This week’s New York Times article, Cuts in Home Care Put Elderly and Disabled at Risk, makes it all too clear that policy makers do not yet understand that well managed care in individual homes saves money. How do we make the point? (1) Strength in numbers. (2) A complete package. Those providing in home […]

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Ramp Camp Report

July 6, 2010

I had a great group of kids this week. We worked hard in some serious heat, got down in the mud to clean the footing holes of rain after a thunderstorm, and got just a bit further than I expected. I am amazed at how kids meet and get to know each other so quickly, […]

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Aging in Place & Ramp Camp

June 28, 2010

I am leading ramp camp this week. I work with a group of high school kids who get community service credit for building an access ramp. In all the years past I have done this the client needed the ramp. The students/kids/campers learned to use power tools and learned about someone different than themselves and […]

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