Senior Assistive Technology

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CareGiver Technology is an advisor, educator and caregiver resource on the latest assistive technological products designed to help people remain independent and stay in their homes for as long as possible.

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Assistive Technology Consultants serving:

HospitalsPhysiciansGeriatric Care ManagersSenior Care FranchisesCommunity AdministratorsHome Care AgenciesHealth Insurance industry

Assistive Technology for Seniors

• Fall Detection• Wander Management• Medication

Management• TeleHealth• Wellbeing Systems• Senior Safety• Socialization• Specific Devices

Fall Detection

• Each year, one in every three adults age 65 and older falls. CDC

Safety Care

My Halo

MyHalo is a lightweight, waterproof pendant with auto fall detect that will trigger an emergency call on a MobileHelp mobile device or home base station in the event of a fall. The user wears a comfortable, waterproof device which contains tiny sensors capable of measuring user orientation and three-dimensional motion. If the user falls and is incapacitated, immobilized or unconscious, the pendant will detect the sudden fall and send a signal to MobileHelp’s emergency response center. Even if the user cannot speak, the operator will be able to dispatch help.

• Mobile Help

Your mobile device or PAL, is a cell phone, a GPS tracking device and an emergency fall detector all in one. A single button connects you to a CareSpecialist – no numbers to remember or small keypads to operate.

If you need assistance, push a button. Need roadside assistance or turn-by-turn directions? Push the same button. When you would like to call a family member, your doctor or your hair salon, just push the button and our CareSpecialists can connect you.

$99.00 Startup and $30.00 @ month

Wander Management

Comfort Zone® is a comprehensive web-based location management service. Families can remotely monitor a person with Alzheimer’s by receiving automated alerts throughout the day and night when a person has travelled beyond a preset zone.

• Pureliving Companion Anti-Wandering System Wireless Door Alarm

• Description • The Companion is an easy to install anti-wandering system. Great

solution for patients with Alzheimers or Dementia who may be prone to wandering. The system contains two parts. A reader which is placed above the door, and a wrist tag which is worn by the resident. The reader can be set to a desired distance for the warning allowing the caregiver time needed to secure the resident before they can exit. The reader plugs into a 120VAC wall outlet. Self seeking range detection. Push button calibration. Waterproof wrist tag. Localized 85dB alarm. Wireless technology with simple step by step installation instruction. 1-year warranty.

• A Frame Digital

The MobileCare Monitor provides individuals and their loved ones with peace of mind in an attractive, personalized device they can wear 24/7. The system monitors an individual's activity, location, and physiological status in real time, indoors or outside. The watch contains sensors to detect impacts or falls and provide an alert without the push of a button. It also includes an emergency call button so users can call for help manually if needed. The most important benefit of the watch is that it can be personalized for each user. Alerts are based on the individual's baseline and special needs which allows a proactive approach to health and wellness.

• • SkiL-Care™ Door/Window Alarm• Safeguards your home for a loved one prone

to wandering• Sounds an alert when door or window is

opened• It is easy to use and installs in seconds

The Aetrex Navistar GPS Footwear System is the most ground-breaking product containing GPS tracking technology designed to help protect individuals afflicted with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia who have a tendency to wander and become lost.

• Aetrex

Medication Management

• In the US, as many as 200,000 people may die of medication-related problems each year. NIH

TabSafe is an easy-to-use, effective solution for managing medications yet can accommodate even the most complex schedules. Our medication management system reminds the user, dispenses medications, alerts caregivers before a dose time

• RXTender is an easy to use tool designed to aid persons who take medications on a scheduled basis. The Automated Medication Dispenser is designed to alert a person, by ringing an alarm at the time medications need to be taken. The unit is lockable preventing a person from inadvertently overdosing or under-dosing. The unit has twenty-eight compartments to hold medications and can be programmed to deliver up to four doses a day.

The uBox is a smart pillbox that helpsyou take your medicine on time

The Med-eMonitor™ System

The Med-eMonitor™ System is a combined medication and care plan adherence solution. The System comprises a portable patient interface device and automated data upload and download capability using a cradle connected to the patient’s phone line.

The Proteus digestible microchips are made of trace amounts of silicon, magnesium, and copper. When you swallow one, the acid in your stomach causes the microchip to generate a tiny little voltage signal that's detectable using a skin patch. The patch sends a confirmation message to your phone, which routes it to your doctor, who then knows that you've just taken your meds.

Meanwhile, after a few minutes the microchip harmlessly dissolves and you get some extra minerals in your diet.

The person dispensing the medicines scans the pills with a smartphone camera.MyPillSense stores the image and labels it with the time and location.Irody’s algorithms identify the medicine and compare it with the patient's scheduled medicines.If the medicine is not a match with the patient's regimen, MyPillSense gives a warning.MyPillSense sends a copy of the pill taken to the parent/caregiver for their information.If a medicine was not given as schedule, MyPillSense sends an alert to the patient or caregiver.

TeleHealth

Honeywell Intel

• More than 36 million Americans have used telemedicine in some way, and as many as 70 percent of doctor visits can be handled over the phone. Affiliated Workers Association

• Health Pal is a small portable device that uses wireless (Bluetooth) or wired connectivity and M2M cellular technology to collect and transmit health readings from compatible retail medical monitors to a user’s electronic health record (EHR).

• HealthPAL is currently FDA-cleared for use with glucose meters, blood pressure monitors, weight scales and pulse oximeters.

• The data can be accessed for remote monitoring by professional caregivers using enterprise EHRs, or by the end-user or authorized family members through the patient’s personal health record.

•Med Apps joins Alere

Tele-Health and Health IT

• Ideal Life

Twenty-first century healthcare takes a team effort, especially when it comes to managing chronic conditions such as hypertension, congestive heart failure (CHF), diabetes, obesity, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and asthma. IDEAL LIFE has developed the first easy and affordable solution that makes remote health management a reality and empowers individuals to take more active and informed roles in their own health and well-being.

AliveCor Heart Monitor

AliveCor’s Heart Monitor has been cleared by the FDA for sale in the U.S. for use by licensed medical professionals to record, display, store, transfer, and evaluate single-channel electrocardiogram (ECG) rhythms.

Scanadu Scout

Simply hold the SCOUT to your temple, and in ten seconds (it took about a minute during our demo), it will record a number of your vitals: Heart rate, electrical heart activity, pulse transit time, temperature, heart rate variability, and blood oxygenation. It then transmits this information to an iOS app via Bluetooth. 

Ambio Health

Ambio Health enables you to take readings using compatible branded blood pressure meters, glucose meters and scales anywhere in your house. Using our patent pending wireless adapters, reading are automatically sent to our health portal.

• E Textiles E39 Electronic Shirt

SmartWatch is a intelligent wristwatch that continuously monitors movements and

alerts upon the onset of excessive or repetitive shaking motion. Automatic text message and phone call alerts are sent to

designated family members and caregivers.

Well Being Systems BeClose

• Passive system• Discreet Sensors• Disruptions will send

alerts by phone, email, or text message.

• Just plug in • Place sensors• That’s it

Video Care

• Daily visual Check in• Visualization of

medication ingestion • Observe facial Features• Coaching and viewing of

vitals • Activity and medication

reminders• Music, Photo’s, Video’s• Branding

GrandCare

• Video Calling• Home activity sensors• Telehealth Sensors• Customize Alerts• Daily Check in• Total socialization• Internet, Pictures, Video

and games• Branding

The most important thing to understand about how the system works is to know what it demands of the user: nothing.

IMOKDatabase Systems Corp

• Inexpensive• Call in on your schedule• Easy set up• no response to the call,

an emergency alert is generated.

• Alerts can go to Family, Friends, Care giver

HomeSoloApp• HomeSolo is an iPhone application that

allows adults to check on parents or loved ones who live alone through messages sent at regular intervals to the single person's phone. Users select the days and times when messages are to be automatically sent. The single person acknowledges the messages by pressing a large button on the phone's screen. If he/she does not press the button, an emergency contact is notified at 10, 20, and 30 minute intervals. For a one-time cost of $4.99* HomeSolo offers pricel

• HomeSoloApp.com

Senior Safety

• CookStop

• Stove Guard Natural Gas

Online Camera Systems

Video is the next best thing to being at your home with your loved one.Live ConnectIT video to your Smart Phone or PC available 24/7.  Keep an eye on your loved ones. Yes, you can virtually be in two places at once with ConnectIT Video.

• Vuezone

Strobe light smoke detector AC plug in

The Gentex Smoke Detectors offers reliable, early warning of the presence of smoke. An outstanding safety device for people who wear hearing aids. This is a single station, 120 VAC photoelectric smoke detector. No need to hire an electrician to hook up this smoke detector. Simply plug the 9-ft cord into any standard AC outlet.

Socialization Devices

• Presto

• Telikin

Specific DevicesSeize Alert

Lasers are now being used to help people with disabilities

communicate.

ReWalk

Robotic Mobilization Device

HAPIfork

• From Hong Kong-based HAPILabs, the HAPIfork is a fork with embedded sensors and a Bluetooth transmitter. The fork “knows” when you’re eating too fast, and vibrates to alert you, as well as sending notifications to a companion app. The theory is that if you eat too fast, it takes longer to realize you’re full, so you might eat too much.

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