Phil D'Eramo had a habit to call his parents four or five times a day, make sure to take your medications. As an only child living in upstate New York, D'Eramo was concerned, particularly her father of 89 years, Alzheimer's disease. Were they eating enough your parents? Does every opportunity that his father went out for a short car was all right?
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"Thanks to this new technology, I feel emotionally confident and sure
my parents will prolong the stay at home," says D'Eramo, 44, a salesman
at a printing company.
An impressive array of technologies provides the confidence you need people seniors in their ability to live alone. They also help many families avoid the difficult decision to pull out of his home to mom and dad to take them to live in a nursing home. "Smart" technologies such as sensors, voice activated, GPS, Bluetooth , cellular connectivity, monitoring applications of smart phones and computers now allow possible aging in place.
"Technology is allowing me to live alone as much as possible; I would die right here in my condo, "says Phyllis, great Bek-Venice, Florida, who turns 90 this month.
There are devices that monitor drugs , track ambulation of an Alzheimer's patient, inactividad- detect any activity, or in the house, such as falls, and provide health information in real time. Through PERS (personal response systems for emergencies) that are mobile and are activated by clicking a button, and monitoring systems based on GPS location, you can monitor your parents or friends of the elderly living at home or while engaged in an activity.
"We have entered the era of the most qualified and inexpensive, allowing care microtechnology offer" smart ", and obtain greater independence," says Laurie Orlov, an analyst with technology applied to aging at home. Today, it is an industry with revenues of $ 2.000 billion ($ 2 billion), which-according to calculations Orlov will increase to reach $ 30.000 billion ($ 30 billion) by 2020.
Katy Fike, engineer and gerontologist, has met with "more than a thousand entrepreneurs from around the world" since Aging2.0 co-founded less than two years ago. This company based in San Francisco provides advice to new businesses in areas related to seniors and aging. Fike speaks of the existence of a large number of technologies-which she designations of "connected independence", including activity sensors that give children an idea of the daily activities of their parents are included. In addition, tools that enable family caregivers to participate remotely in a medical visit.
Bek-large it is part of that 40% of US adults aged 85 and older who live alone (as does a third of those aged 65 or more). With more than four in ten American adults caregivers of another adult or a child with serious health problems, and with five or seven million long-distance caregivers, the technological potential market is large.
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The interesting thing is that D'Eramo now found peace in a modern system called Lively.
It has six sensors that D'Eramo installed on the pill of their parents,
the refrigerator, the microwave, the bathroom door and the key to his
dad.
Now, it connects to a website through a cellular link to oversee its activities and remotely monitor their medications. It is able to know the number of times your mother opens the refrigerator door and when her father enters the bathroom or leave the house. If something unusual, the company can alert you via a text message, an email or a phone call.
Now, it connects to a website through a cellular link to oversee its activities and remotely monitor their medications. It is able to know the number of times your mother opens the refrigerator door and when her father enters the bathroom or leave the house. If something unusual, the company can alert you via a text message, an email or a phone call.
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Your health benefits.
An impressive array of technologies provides the confidence you need people seniors in their ability to live alone. They also help many families avoid the difficult decision to pull out of his home to mom and dad to take them to live in a nursing home. "Smart" technologies such as sensors, voice activated, GPS, Bluetooth , cellular connectivity, monitoring applications of smart phones and computers now allow possible aging in place.
"Technology is allowing me to live alone as much as possible; I would die right here in my condo, "says Phyllis, great Bek-Venice, Florida, who turns 90 this month.
There are devices that monitor drugs , track ambulation of an Alzheimer's patient, inactividad- detect any activity, or in the house, such as falls, and provide health information in real time. Through PERS (personal response systems for emergencies) that are mobile and are activated by clicking a button, and monitoring systems based on GPS location, you can monitor your parents or friends of the elderly living at home or while engaged in an activity.
"We have entered the era of the most qualified and inexpensive, allowing care microtechnology offer" smart ", and obtain greater independence," says Laurie Orlov, an analyst with technology applied to aging at home. Today, it is an industry with revenues of $ 2.000 billion ($ 2 billion), which-according to calculations Orlov will increase to reach $ 30.000 billion ($ 30 billion) by 2020.
Katy Fike, engineer and gerontologist, has met with "more than a thousand entrepreneurs from around the world" since Aging2.0 co-founded less than two years ago. This company based in San Francisco provides advice to new businesses in areas related to seniors and aging. Fike speaks of the existence of a large number of technologies-which she designations of "connected independence", including activity sensors that give children an idea of the daily activities of their parents are included. In addition, tools that enable family caregivers to participate remotely in a medical visit.
Bek-large it is part of that 40% of US adults aged 85 and older who live alone (as does a third of those aged 65 or more). With more than four in ten American adults caregivers of another adult or a child with serious health problems, and with five or seven million long-distance caregivers, the technological potential market is large.
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