The three-story pre-fab, modular home features innovative home technologies, products, furniture and has a Smart Home Park offering techniques for urban gardening. Modular homes can be fully customized, are factory built and can be completed much sooner than a traditional build.
George MacGinnis on the difference between telecare and telehealth: In terms of telecare we think of tele-social care. The main focus is on managing risks to peoples’ lives. They might have a panic button, a fall sensor and these might be people who are suffering from dementia. There are risks that they might leave the oven on and create a fire, so there are remote control fire detectors or remote gas shut off valves, etc. Whereas [telehealth] is much more about chronic disease management: Diabetics might be checking their sugar, others might be checking peak flows, blood pressure or weighing themselves and answering questions about their health.
With a groundswell of baby boomers heading towards seniordom, adding universal design features now adds to the value of the home. So for those who like to plan ahead, like the Dallas couple in the article, incorporating universal design elements in a remodel makes sense to do sooner rather than later.
Light switches, TV remote controls and even house keys could become a thing of the past thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology being developed in Europe that lets users perform everyday tasks with thoughts alone.
Graeme Philipson writing for the Sydney Morning Herald discusses how the growth of smart home technologies, falling costs and rising aging population is benefiting both…
Thanks to one of our readers - "Chazzy" - we learned about this article "Sensors Help Keep the Elderly at Home" that ran in the…
Motion sensors are the latest attempt to meet the demand that seniors make again and again — to stay at home, or at least out of the nursing home, for as long as possible. It's an innovation with roots in Minnesota, which is home to one leading sensor company and an early testing ground for another.
