The Oregon Center for Aging & Technology (ORCATECH) is pleased to offer pilot funding opportunities for 2013-2014 to improve technology and translate that technology into useful tools to improve health and maintain independence in our aging population. ORCATECH focuses on two key reasons for loss of independence among the elderly: decline in cognitive function and decline in mobility. Several areas of related [...]
Seniors who want to age independently in their homes can now stay connected to friends and family with the new CareLine(TM) home safety telephone system from VTech® Communications, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of VTech Holdings Ltd. (HKSE: 303). Designed with experts in aging and technology, the affordable and easy-to-use CareLine system incorporates features to [...]
Position: Post-doctoral position in home-health monitoring and big data pattern recognition Organization: Oregon Health and Sciences University Location: Portland Oregon Deadline: Until filled Description: We are developing a system that tracks mobility, location, and other movement metrics of a person within their living environment (home or assisted care facility) and attempts to infer cognitive and physical characteristics from [...]
Every time Trudy Rice or her husband comes in the front door, it’s recorded. Every time they enter the bathroom. Or open the refrigerator, or walk across a room. If they get out of bed in the middle of the night, machines take notice. The data captured by motion detectors installed at the retired couple’s [...]
Course 3: Pervasive Computing for Assessing Health & Functional Change JEFFREY KAYE, M.D. - OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY KATHERINE WILD, PH.D. - OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY Advances in pervasive, “everywhere” computing, increased emphasis on home-based care models, and awareness of limitations on current assessment approaches create the ingredients for envisioning a significant change in the way we assess health and [...]
Sensors that track how quickly older people walk may eventually serve as an early-detection system for cognitive decline, researchers say. They installed infrared sensors on the hallway ceilings of some 90 people over the age of 70, all of whom lived alone, and unobtrusively monitored the participants for up to three years. The participants began [...]
VANCOUVER, July 16, 2012 – Two studies presented today at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference® 2012 (AAIC® 2012) in Vancouver provide evidence of connections between mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and negative health outcomes – increased isolation and death. These studies suggest that MCI, which is too often thought of as “only a little memory loss,” is a serious [...]