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Better Health Care Through Technology: What can you do for aging loved ones?

Published: 01 November 2006 Publication History

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Leveraging technology to support aging relatives in their homes is a cost-efficient way to maintain health and happiness and extend life. As the technology expert for my extended family, it has fallen to me to architect the infrastructure that will support my family’s aging loved ones in their homes as long as possible. Over the years, I have assisted four different senior households in achieving this goal, and although things have been bumpy at times, I have refined technical solutions and methodologies that seem to work well.

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I have used two alert-device vendors and found them both satisfactory: Rescue Alert (http://www.rescuealert.com) and Lifeline (http://www.lifelinesys.com).

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cover image Queue
Queue  Volume 4, Issue 9
Cybercrime
November 2006
44 pages
ISSN:1542-7730
EISSN:1542-7749
DOI:10.1145/1180176
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Published: 01 November 2006
Published in QUEUE Volume 4, Issue 9

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  • (2020)Design Space Analysis of Health Technologies for FamiliesProceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare10.1145/3421937.3421988(21-37)Online publication date: 18-May-2020
  • (2009)Translating social support practices into online services for family caregiversProceedings of the 2009 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work10.1145/1531674.1531685(71-80)Online publication date: 13-May-2009

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