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Telecare Soapbox: Can the ‘old old’ have best lives when the pressure is to isolate them?

August 5, 2009 | by | Comments Off on Telecare Soapbox: Can the ‘old old’ have best lives when the pressure is to isolate them?

...know of many cultures that support the ‘old old’ and those that have (Asian Indian, Chinese, Japanese) are increasingly not. Here is a moral, right opportunity for both healthcare and technology. I will make a similar case for the disabled and the support telecare/telehealth can be for them as well. Unfortunately I think the trend towards treating the ‘old old’ – or even the just old – INhumanely is on the rise, despite… the How the ‘Old Old’ can have best lives article. This unfortunate trend was brilliantly summed up by former Gov. of Colorado, later Sec. Treasury, Dick Lamm... Continue Reading

Telecare Soapbox: Northern Ireland’s ‘unhappy first birthday’ approaches

May 14, 2009 | by | 3 Comments

...appropriate use of taxpayers’ money? Sincerely, Steve Hards http://www.TelecareAware.com Telecare Aware: Help Spread the Telecare News Again I received no reply, not even a standard or automated acknowledgement, and chased it by email a week later. Still no response. On 7 May, I followed this up with an enquiry via the NI Executive’s website contact form: Do the Ministers’ Private Offices have standards they are expected to meet regarding speed of response to emails sent to their addresses as published on this website? I emailed Mr McGimpsey’s office (private.office@dhsspsni.gov.uk) on 15 April (followed up 22 April) but have not have... Continue Reading

Kicking over the traces: Transforming Community Equipment Services (UK)

June 4, 2007 | by | Comments Off on Kicking over the traces: Transforming Community Equipment Services (UK)

...to meet the funding commitments that will be made on their behalf by the independent assessors. This is an important issue, so I’ve gone on at some length although Telecare Aware isn’t the place to dwell on these proposals. Download the four documents and comment to the TCEWS Programme Manager, lucia.fiveash@dh.gsi.gov.uk and go along to the events being organised. For readers with a sensitive disposition I should point out that the documents have not been well proof read. In particular, I note that after a year of working with one of the major stakeholders in this project, the British Healthcare... Continue Reading