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Disabled Activists Win Battle for Independent Care
Earlier this summer, federal officials announced they will provide two billion dollars to states that help people leave nursing homes — instead of paying for them to live in one. That plan was the result of an unlikely alliance between severely disabled activists and a White House official.
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The Assist Actuated Inhaler (AAI)
The Assist Actuated Inhaler™ from Medicom represents a completely new generation of pressurised metered dose inhalers (pMDIs) with a fully integrated dose counter. As an option the inhaler can come with an electronic cap, which contains a reminder for preventive medicine taken and does also give a feed-back to the user [...]

Communication is at the heart of any good system whether it be a relationship between two people, two animals, or a doctor and a patient. Technology today fills out the triangle and introduces a cornucopia of medical devices that interface between the two. Sorry, HAL, but your odyssey is over.
Medical device makers see patients like [...]

The simple ability to keep track of anything today by RFID tag offers amazing insights into human behavior. The patterns of behavior that emerge from everyday activities, over time, readily show any changes of behavior. Studying the reasons for these changes is going to open a whole new field of study involving psychology and technology. [...]

Technology and humans have co-existed for a long time. It’s only until recently, though, that technology has crossed over into our private lives in a way that makes it possible to record and analyze huge volumes of data about ourselves.
One application of this technology is the monitoring of seniors as they grow older. Listen to [...]

Credit: One & Co.
Design today plays a vital role in enhancing the quality of our daily living experience. Even something as simple as a crutch can be re-designed with an eye toward better functionality combined with a more personal sense of aesthetics.
Business Week asked several design firms to re-imagine crutch design taking into account [...]

Voice recognition software is truly amazing. If anyone saw Mission Impossible III over the weekend, you know that Tom Cruise uses it to impersonate Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s character. Motorola has applied for a patent to use voice recognition in regard to the age of a cell phone user. Based on the nature of the voice, [...]

Spring is here, so that means cranking up the garden. If you have arthritis or carpal tunnel syndrome, though, this may be easier said than done. These nifty gardening tools make the whole chore possible. Now you’re only excuse for not getting out there is the rain!
Ergonomic Garden Tool Set
The pitch:
These Ergonomic Garden Tools [...]

I have just one question: would you trust yourself going down a set of stairs in this contraption? I think I would prefer riding the rail up the staircase.
A Japanese researcher demonstrated in Tokyo Wednesday a pair of robotic legs that can negotiate stairs and could eventually find use as a wheelchair substitute. “Elderly [...]

If you hold a piece of wire and stick it into a wall socket, more than likely you’ll receive a jolt of electricity. It might even kill you. Curiosity may not kill the cat, but human beings are a whole different story.
The heart makes a nice metaphor about what we love in life, but [...]

When you need to read the fine print, here’s a portable device that gets the job done. If you subscribe to Playboy, please keep this device out of your grandson’s hands. It may objects to appear closer than they really are.
Illuminated Magnifier
Cordless illuminated magnifier goes anywhere to enlarge 5x and light difficult-to-see books, newspapers, craft [...]

USA Today features a nice article on how to make your home senior friendly. Aging in place requires modest or sometimes radical adjustments to your living environment. Take something as simple as sitting on the toilet. Health conditions make make the task of bending down and standing up nearly impossible. The solution: a raised toilet [...]

The future of health lies in gadgets. The explosion of monitoring technologies like RFID tags is going to revolutionize how patients get diagnosed and deal with their problems. Welcome to the world of self-service health care. As long as it works, costs less, and gets rid of the problem, great! I hope these gadgets allow [...]

In Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL, the computer onboard was programmed to take charge under defined conditions. HAL, of course, went bonkers. But that early technological glitch hasn’t stopped Accenture from dreaming up a talking medicine cabinet for senior citizens.
Since we know the mind loses its ability to focus as we grow [...]

Lamp Switch Enlarger
Fits over the existing switch to provide an easy, stress free grasp. No electrical connections required. (Not for push button style switches.) Package of 2.
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Ten Things You Should Know About the Accessible Congregations Campaign
1. The Accessible Congregations Campaign (ACC) seeks to gain the commitment of congregations of all faiths to include people with all types of disabilities as full and active participants. It is sponsored by the Religion and Disability Program of the National Organization on Disability.
2. The theme [...]