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Five videos (approx 15 mins total viewing) Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri, Columbia
‘Terrible’ web page, but links to interesting videos at the bottom – persevere if they do not play easily. [The first seems particularly problematic, and complain to the site, not me, if they do not work for you!]. The ‘magic carpet’ will interest most Telecare Aware readers. Aging in place.
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Telehealth and Telecare Aware posts pointers to a broad range of news items. Authors of those items often use terms 'telecare' and telehealth' in inventive and idiosyncratic ways. Telecare Aware's editors can generally live with that variation. However, when we use these terms we usually mean:
• Telecare: from simple personal alarms (AKA pendant/panic/medical/social alarms, PERS, and so on) through to smart homes that focus on alerts for risk including, for example: falls; smoke; changes in daily activity patterns and 'wandering'. Telecare may also be used to confirm that someone is safe and to prompt them to take medication. The alert generates an appropriate response to the situation allowing someone to live more independently and confidently in their own home for longer.
• Telehealth: as in remote vital signs monitoring. Vital signs of patients with long term conditions are measured daily by devices at home and the data sent to a monitoring centre for response by a nurse or doctor if they fall outside predetermined norms. Telehealth has been shown to replace routine trips for check-ups; to speed interventions when health deteriorates, and to reduce stress by educating patients about their condition.
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Fall Detection
On a LinkedIn group (Senior Safety & Security), Jerry Hahn, CEO of MedSignals, commented that his company “is teamed in one project with a novel streaming sensor system planted in insoles that collects data on a person’s equilibrium. The objective is to capture information in “real time” across large geographically populations that can be managed by a dashboard on preset thresholds for adherence and movement.”
A thought: if you coupled the MedSignals insoles with this carpet (sensor-based carpet using organic ink sensors on a thin film), could you create a comprehensive gait and activity tracker through the residence, along with universal fall detection? Changes in gait can be an early and leading indicator of neurological impairment or physical illness. Along with motion sensor technology, here you have an non-intrusive way of monitoring activity comprehensively.