May 20 2006
High-Tech Elder Care Products
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I have to wonder, how available will this be to the masses?
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ABCNews Examines High-Tech Elder Care Products
May 12, 2006
ABCNews’ “World News Tonight” on Thursday reported on the increasing number of health monitoring tools that help senior citizens live more independently without paying for nursing services or companion care by allowing family members to monitor their activities through motion sensors and the Internet.
According to Eric Tangalos, a geriatrician at the Mayo Clinic, “Smart technologies give us an opportunity to keep people at home longer and safer and better.” In addition, Tangalos said that with the increasing number of U.S. residents over age 60, there will not be enough caregivers or money to finance individual home care, so “what we need is technology to help sort this out.”
The segment includes comments from:
Gregory Abowd, a software engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where scientists built a house designed to monitor elderly residents;
Al Newman, a heart patient in Minnesota who uses a sensor-equipped bed, which was developed at the University of Virginia and is expected to go on the market later this year for $1,000, that allows nurses to track changes in his sleep patterns and heart function;
Scott Rose, managing director for Accenture Technology, which created a talking medicine cabinet; and
U.S. residents who use ADT’s Quiet Care system to monitor their 80-year-old mother (Pinto, “World News Tonight,” ABCN
Transcript
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=1950523
