High-Tech Seniors
Developing technologies help seniors in everyday life. 
From: Advance for Directors in Rehabilitation 
By: Scott Hatfield  

Intelligent walkers and canes, equipped with wireless transmitters and
integrated with sound alerts, can detect balance changes and send signals to
a personal computer (PC). A patient-locating wireless device can keep tabs on
a senior citizen's whereabouts, specifically if he's wandered out of the
house.

Those were among the devices discussed by Intel Chairman Craig Barrett during
his Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2006
keynote address, "Transformations in the Healthcare Industry" in San Diego in
February 2006.

"'The Memory Screen,' a simple monitor system, tells you what you're supposed
to do every day like take Tylenol, TheraFlu...or feed your cat," Barrett
reviewed with the information technology-based audience. "There are
variations of this - what I call 'Caller ID on Steroids' - where you don't
just get the caller's name or number but an on-screen image of the caller and
a notation of when he last called."

Read the entire article at:
http://rehabilitation-director.advanceweb.com/common/Editorial/Editorial.aspx?CC=78779

Links:
Craig R. Barrett
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/barrett.htm
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/barrett/bio.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Barrett_%28Intel_Chairman%29

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
http://www.himss.org/ASP/index.asp

Center for Aging Services Technologies
http://www.agingtech.org/index.aspx
