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Survey Says: Internet to Help With Aging and Caregiving

CommonHealth Action releases preliminary data from national survey on aging in America: 90% expect to use Internet/Social Networking to help take care of themselves.

How useful is a ‘PERS’ compared to a cell phone?

So let’s say you live in an isolated location, leave the house to go out to a garage or walk the dog, how useful is a PERS (Personal Emergency Response System) pendant or watch?

Go Potty and Go Green

Having a modern toilet bidet in your home will reduce toilet paper consumption from 50 to 100% via the effective cleansing of the warm water wash and optional warm air dryer. In addition, a toilet bidet only uses an average 5-7 cents of electricity per day – even less when its power saving features are activated. The use of a toilet bidet supports both a green lifestyle and aging in place.

Telerounds at Henry Ford Hosptial

Is video the next best thing to being there? The answer is “yes” as far as patients at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan are

Real Time Control Of Wheelchair With Brain Waves

Recently technological developments in the area of brain machine interface (BMI) have received much attention. Such systems allow elderly or handicapped people to interact with the world through signals from their brains, without having to give voice commands.

Social Networking Use Doubles for Boomers-Email Still Rules

While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010.

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Survey Says: Internet to Help With Aging and Caregiving

How useful is a ‘PERS’ compared to a cell phone?

Go Potty and Go Green

Telerounds at Henry Ford Hosptial

Real Time Control Of Wheelchair With Brain Waves

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