Posts Tagged ‘High Tech to age in place’
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
One of the most common reasons why seniors are forced to leave their homes and move into an institution is the occurrence of a fall or the existence of a high fall risk. Adult children and friends are scared of finding their loved one, who has fallen, a little too late. Time is important when a senior falls and help an immediate response is needed.
Despite of the widely use of the “emergency response buttons”, we realized that most of the times these devices are not being used at the moment of the fall. The risk of falling increases with age and falling is the number one cause of injury in adults over 65. These numbers are cause for great concern, but awareness and prevention can help decrease the likelihood of falls in the senior citizen years.
Living Well Assisted Living at Home has researched thoroughly different alternatives to bring safety at home and enable seniors to live independently while keeping seniors safe at home and providing real time report and request for assistance. We partner with Grand Care System, Halo Monitoring, and Universal Design to tailor made the house to the senior’s needs and bring peace of mind to the family members and friends.
ABC News recently featured a video about how preventing dangerous falls.
Watch ABC News Video on Preventing Falls
Trisha Kellog supports independent living with some assistance and in a recent blog entry, Trisha stresses the need for systems that supports safety. She states that “…With age comes the risk of falls and falls can lead to serious injury or death. Improving health and being aware of potential hazards will help ease the mind of you or your loved-one…” Read the article
Tags: Aging in Place, Alzheimer's, Assisted Living at Home, High Tech to age in place, independent living for seniors, Living Well Assisted Living at Home, Living Well best practices to age in place, Physical health for seniors, senior wellness
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
Aging in Place: You do not need to leave your home!
In an article by Rochelle Oliver, published on Psych Central, we learn that although “… a large number of the elderly population spends their remaining years in assisted living facilities, new studies have brought to light the effects these sorts of facilities have on an older person’s mental and physical wellbeing.
The research conducted in Los Angeles by lead author Jennifer Martin, PhD of the University of California Los Angeles and VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System suggests that 65 percent of the elderly in assisted living facilities aren’t able to get the necessary amounts of sleep they need to maintain good health… read more.
Tags: age in place, Aging, Assisted Living at Home, Dementia Care, High Tech to age in place, Living Well Assisted Living at Home, Living Well best practices to age in place
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
The need for special training and smart technology to help track the rising number of people with dementia who wanders beyond logic patterns was raised in a recent article by Kirk Johnson in The New York Times, Johnson explains that “…For generations, the prototypical search-and-rescue case in America was Timmy in the well, with Lassie barking insistently to summon help. Lost children and adolescents — from the woods to the mall — generally outnumbered all others…But last year for the first time, another type of search crossed into first place here in Virginia, marking a profound demographic shift that public safety officials say will increasingly define the future as the nation ages: wandering, confused…” Read more
Living Well Assisted Living at Home, Inc. proposes combining smart technology with specialized services can help to keep these people safe at home. Models like the one they called High Tech-High Touch offers a solution to the challenge of caring for elders who experience any type of dementia or cognitive decline and want to stay at home instead of going to an institution.
Tags: age in place, Aging, Alzheimer's, Assisted Living at Home, Dementia Care, High Tech to age in place, Living Well best practices to age in place, living well with dementia, livng well with Alzheimer's
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Living Well Assisted Living at Home, supports a model of High tech and High Touch to support aging in place. Some people believe that older people are not into technology at all. Nonetheless research shows that the recent largest population entering the internet are seniors (mainly to use email with family members and shop online). On May 3, 2010, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article stressing the appealing that the new i-pad by apple has for seniors. “… It’s too early to get a demographic breakdown of the people who have bought the new tablet computer – more than half a million of which have been sold. But Apple’s new gizmo appears to be resonating well with older adults, who see the 10-inch computer as a device that speaks to their particular needs…” You go grandma!
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
I recently noticed a thread on a New York Times blog about how much people who have elderly relatives with some form of senility or dementia would like to be able to engage their loved ones in meaningful interactions – and how hard a time they have figuring out how to do that. I command the famous media for bringing the issue to the front burner.
NYT invited the clinical psychologist Cynthia Green, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and the author of several books on memory (including “Through the Seasons: An Activities Book for Memory Challenged Adults and Caregivers“), to join the conversation. Dr Green has some suggestions. She said: “…When someone we love receives a diagnosis of memory loss, we fall headfirst into the (usually) unasked-for role of manager, overseeing both the major decisions — whether a move is necessary, for example — as well as the minor, everyday ones.
Yet once the dust has settled and we’ve established a routine, we face a different problem. What can Mom or Dad do? How should they spend their time? Shouldn’t they be doing something?
Shouldn’t we be doing something with them? Join the discussion
Tags: age in place, Assisted Living at Home, Dementia Care, High Tech to age in place, independent living for seniors, Living Well best practices to age in place, livng well with Alzheimer's
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
There is a m
yth in the eldercare field: “people with dementia, including Alzheimer’s need to leave their normal lives…and being institutionalized for their safety..”
At Living Well Assisted Living at Home, we are happy to offer smart technology and comprehensive services that allow people with dementia to continue with their usual lives.
To support this concept, USA Today has been publishing the “Blackwells’ journey into Alzheimer’s”. “…USA Today: Focus on the present helps couple handle Alzheimer’s. The reality of Alzheimer’s disease is different for everybody. Bob Blackwell, an Alzheimer’s Association early-stage advisor, and his wife, Carol, choose to focus on the present when dealing with his diagnosis. They travel together and blog about their Alzheimer experience, and Bob continues to exercise and partake in photography, his favorite hobby. The couple also traveled to Washington, D.C., to lobby their elected officials at the Alzheimer’s Association Alzheimer’s Action Summit. Read the USA Today article
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Doris Bersing, PhD President and Co-Founder, Living Well Assisted Living at Home comments on the results of an AARP survey that shows 89% of Americans do not want to leave their homes when they age. Most of these people will be live alone and receive support from a variety of health and community-based providers, family caregivers. Read Dr. Bersing’s article
How will the long-term care system provide care to a growing number of seniors living in increasingly scattered locations? And more importantly, how can that system continue to provide quality care in the face of workforce shortages, rising care costs and decreasing resources? Technology has the potential to play a critical role in launching a new model of geriatric care that allows older people to live independently for as long as possible, supports family caregivers in the important work they do and gives health care providers the tools they need to deliver high-quality care at a reasonable cost.[1]
The mix of caring people, technology, and expertise in gerontology is the key to being able to keep people living and aging within their own homes regardless of whether they are healthy and engaged or dealing with chronic physical illness or dementia.
In other countries, along with the USA, a device touted as a future of health care is freeing nurses from long road trips, and instead beaming them into lounge rooms. An article by Danny Rose “Hi-tech alternative to nurse home visit” on the 9news, explains how technology can be used to help seniors to take care of their health and age-in-place. Read Danny’s article
[1] On the State of Technology in Aging Services report (2008) by The Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST). You can download the report from
their website
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One of the most common reasons why seniors are forced to leave their homes and move into an institution is the occurrence of a fall or the existence of a high fall risk. Adult children and friends are scared of finding their loved one, who has fallen, a little too late. Time is important when a senior falls and help an immediate response is needed.
