Allison Elliott, Our Health
“Somewhere in Kentucky, a patient checks in at the front desk of her local hospital’s memory or behavioral health clinic. The patient is concerned she may be having memory problems and, at the encouragement of family and friends, has booked an evaluation.
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Barton C et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 2011
Objective:
Telemedicine is increasingly being used to provide consultation for healthcare in rural areas. Little work has been done with dementia although preliminary research suggests that clinical diagnosis performed via telemedicine consultation is valid. We implemented a program to provide multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art diagnosis of cognitive impairment by video-telemedicine (VTM) integrated into a clinical setting.
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Gill Hitchcock, Guardian Professional
“Trials of a mobile version of a touch screen memory test to help GPs in the early detection of Alzheimer’s will begin this week in a primary care trust, ahead of a general launch planned for 2012.
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Laurie Orlov, Aging In Place Technology Watch
“Technologies to keep those with dementia safe at home. How you ask the question changes the answer. A few weeks ago, I revised my thinking about dementia care technology. The catalyst:An interviewer with the Cincinnati Enquirer called me a few weeks ago for a story she was doing — and asked me about the technologies that could enable those with Alzheimer’s or other dementias to remain safely in their homes.
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van Hoof J et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2011
Introduction
Ambient intelligence technologies are a means to support ageing-in-place by monitoring clients in the home. In this study, monitoring is applied for the purpose of raising an alarm in an emergency situation, and thereby, providing an increased sense of safety and security. Apart from these technological solutions, there are numerous environmental interventions in the home environment that can support people to age-in-place. The aim of this study was to investigate the needs and motives, related to ageing-in-place, of the respondents receiving ambient intelligence technologies, and to investigate whether, and how, these technologies contributed to aspects of ageing-in-place.
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HEALTH.IN.GR, Pathfinder
“Με επιτυχία υλοποιείται μία ακόμη υπηρεσία του Δήμου Τρικκαίων, με στόχο την αναβάθμιση και επέκταση των υπαρχόντων υπηρεσιών τηλε-φροντίδας, με την χρήση των νέων τεχνολογιών.
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Alida Budding - Hennink, Medicalfacts
“Vilans, kenniscentrum voor langdurende zorg, test de komende maanden het gebruik van een GPS-chip voor het terugvinden van mensen met dementie. Dit sluit aan bij de wensen van Alzheimer Nederland en het Landelijk bureau vermiste personen.
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Skynews.com.au
“Scientists in Japan have developed a robot that can aid people with mild dementia by giving verbal reminders about things such as appointments and taking medicine.
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Holthe T, Walderhaug S. Journal of Assistive Technologies, 4(2)
The EU-funded project ‘Middleware Platform for eMPOWERing older people and people with cognitive impairments – MPOWER’ is aimed at developing a technical middleware platform that enables rapid development of flexible, domain-specific applications that can be personalised for individual use. We focused on creating a set of reusable components that can easily be combined in order to provide the most relevant services in the user’s home, eg. calendar services, messaging services and different sensor technologies. In order to evaluate the feasibility of the platform, two full-scale proof of concept applications (POCAs) were developed and deployed to real-life environments; one ‘smart home’ solution in Poland and one individual internet-based digital plan in Norway. This paper presents the findings from the POCA development and trial in Norway.
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Sky News Online
“Robots that can cook, dance to Michael Jackson songs or guide the blind are among the gadgets aimed at helping humans cope with illnesses on display in Spain at one of the world’s biggest annual gatherings of new technology enthusiasts.
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Karin Kloosterman, Israel21c
“Almost every family has one: An aunt, parent or grandparent with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. The shenanigans they can get up to may make for humorous anecdotes at Sunday brunch, but their sad situation is a terribly painful story for everyone involved.
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Medical News Today
“The labour force in the health services is shrinking, there are more and more old people, and a very high proportion of them are plagued by deteriorating short- and long-term memory.
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Lyn Whitfield, E-Health Primary Care
“Research Councils UK has unveiled a five year, £36m programme to develop new digital technologies.
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The Telegraph
“Dr Rupert McShane is running a two-year trial at the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust which has become the first in the country to fit dementia patients with the pocket GPS devices.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“The University of Bath has showcased a ‘smart’ home for people with dementia at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Pioneers 09 exhibition.
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“A broadband-based system – called Telehealth – that allows health care professional to monitor patients remotely is being brought to British nursing homes.
Telehealth is being deployed to the Woodside House Care Home in Norwich, who had a very successful pilot program earlier this year with 26 of its residents. The new patients who will be monitored by Telehealth include a specialized community for people with dementia.”
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Speedmatters.org, 15 December 2008
“Computer games offer an exciting and engaging way of helping older people with dementia keep their brain active and learn new skills.
This is the finding of Arlene Astell and her colleagues at the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee who will talk about the success of their project ‘Living in the moment’ today, Thursday 3 July, at the at the 2008 Annual Conference for Psychology Specialists Working with Older People part of The British Psychological Society, being held at the University of York.”
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Medical News Today, 3 July 2008
The second part of the Monday also has 2 sessions, each having 2 parallel tracks.
“The latest sign of over zealous Big Brother or the future for empowering people with dementia?
When electronic tagging was suggested as a way of tracking people with dementia it sparked a nationwide debate on the ethics of assistive technology. Now the Alzheimer’s Society is launching a new policy on electronic tagging and safer walking technology and people with dementia and their carers are being asked to speak out.”
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Medical News Today, 7 January 2008
“Patients suffering from dementia in a Luxembourg hospital are now being tagged with RFID solutions from AeroScout to ensure they remain safe within hospital grounds and are in close range of nurses and caregivers.”
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e-Health Europe, 9 October 2007
