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You gotta love it…Japan is discovering that housing aging inmates requires “a major revamp of its jails to provide elevators, handrails and wheelchair ramps for incarcerated seniors.” Hell, if it costs $8,000 per month or more to park someone in a nursing home, maybe we could all save some money by giving away all our [...]

Ever try to spell a word backwards? For some, no problem; for others, go make yourself a hot tea while they struggle to reverse the letters.
Taking prescription medication can be just as difficult for some. As the pills start adding up, it gets hard to remember which ones you’ve taken unless you have some [...]

The will to embrace new technology usually belongs to those who never experienced the “old way” doing things. Take phones. How many kids under 30 remember sticking their index finger into a round hole and rotating it in a clockwise direction seven times in order to place a call to their friends? Probably none. The [...]

Senior Patent Watch trolls the Patent Office’s database for new inventions that relate to assisting seniors in their day-to-day lives. Here’s a couple of inventors who tackled the problem of wind noise interfering with a hearing aid.
The present application relates to a hearing aid with suppression of wind noise wherein wind noise detection is provided [...]

This is one delicious fact: “A survey of 100 people aged 99 years and older released earlier this month by U.S. health care co-ordinator Evercare found four percent of respondents had listened to music on an iPod.” The iPod revolution is bringing new life to those stuck in a nursing home. With little or no [...]

As people get older, the ability to perform daily routines like preparing meals becomes a real chore. In some cases, even the task of grocery shopping is burdensome; seniors may end up eating so poorly it poses a threat to their health. This is especially true for seniors living alone.
The Meals on Wheels program [...]

A stroke has a way of disabling certain features of the human body like hand movements. Humans being humans, with the ability to think, have turned to robotic therapy as a way to improve the situation instead of living in deprivation. Check out HOWARD, an acronym for Hand-Wrist Assisting Robotic Device, designed by [...]

‘Faith, Hope And Love’ Helps Elderly Shovel Snow
WRTV TheIndyChannel.com via Yahoo! News Sun, 18 Feb 2007
Elderly Hoosiers with a snow-covered sidewalk or driveway often have difficulty figuring out how to dig out, but those who live in Hamilton County can get help from a volunteer group with an intriguing name.
Elderly widow fights to keep cat
UPI [...]

The luxury of being a baby is that when you have to go, you go. There’s no discussion about whether to drive past the next exit in favor of the oasis coming up. Thinking is not allowed, at least from the child’s perspective. As adults, though, incontinence poses an embarrassing problem. Not making it to [...]

As we move into the 21st Century, technology will play a more important role in our lives, especially in terms of keeping us alive. The future portends a variety of monitoring systems that place sensor devices around the house in order to keep track of daily life.
The system will be available online 24 hours [...]

The more you stimulate your brain, the less likely you are to suffer from cognitive impairment later in life, especially from nasty diseases like Alzheimer’s…at least that’s what a host of new companies are saying as they push their brain games into the marketplace.

Here’s a rundown of what’s out there:

Posit Science Brain Fitness Program
The Brain [...]

According to a recent survey by the Sunglass Association of America, sales of reading glasses were up 10.3% with a market value of $261.6 million. Since most retirees live in the south, it’s no coincidence that Southerners account for 37% of all wearers and $200.4 million in sales.
Shop for reading glasses

Reading glasses sales climb 7.8 [...]

If you find directions confusing, then it’s time to join the electronic navigation revolution. Garmin makes a wide variety of portable devices that you mount in your car, SUV, or truck that provide you with street by street instructions for how to get to your destination. All you have to do is input your destination [...]

In the old days, when your vision started to disappear, there was little you could do but accept it. Today, there are all kinds of products that take this disadvantage and turn it into a business opportunity. The EZ Read Rain Gauge by Garner Industries does the trick for those who like to garden, but [...]

The future of your health is about to be swallowed, literally. If Nike can put a sensor in the sole of a shoe to record your speed and whereabouts, then why not design a capsule you can swallow that transmits all kinds of information about your inner workings. That future is about to become reality. [...]

The future of aging is turning into a real life adventure straight out of Star Trek. All kinds of companies are cropping up with the intention of making old age an excuse to sell you a device that makes the process more genial. One such company is SmartSilvers Alliance.
The goal of SmartSilvers is to [...]

Here’s a great holiday gift for someone who doesn’t own a computer: a printer that is enabled to received emails and photos from family and friends. What a fun idea. It’s like having a newspaper delivered on a daily basis, ready to read with your morning coffee. Smart thinking!

HP Printing Mailbox for use with Presto [...]

The Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) is leading the national charge to develop and deploy emerging technologies that can improve the aging experience in America. Established in 2003, CAST has become a national coalition of more than 400 technology companies, aging services organizations, research universities, and government representatives.
The Mission:
1. Driving a [...]

Meet your future companion, the pill pet. This furry friend is designed to dispense your daily medications with a purrrfect mix of play and emotion. MIT’s AgeLab is working this idea in order to make the task, and sometimes complicated process, of taking pills easier for senior citizens.
Just asking: Is it a he or [...]

Before you can invent something, you need to have a problem. Instead of getting annoyed with the problem, the inventor studies why the problem exists and sets out to fix it. This whole mentality of fixing things viewed as problems is more than a rainy day hobby. A select few turn into family fortunes.
The [...]