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News from the Association of Social Alarms Providers (ASAP) about the newly agreed radio frequencies for telecare devices.

NASA’s conducting clinical tests on the ground version of its system for monitoring astronauts.

Published 23rd August, the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study show that improved health and mortality are not likely to guard against the risk of developing dementia. This press release contains conflicting estimates of the incidence of dementia in people over 85.

“The medical industry is already squeezed financially supporting chronically ill patients, and MedStar home monitoring alleviates some of this pressure, while improving patients’ outcome,” says Dr. Charles J. Jacobus, President of Cybernet Systems Corporation. “Avoiding one day of unnecessary hospitalization pays for almost 3 years of monitoring expenses.”

“Most people in the [healthcare] system work with tools from the 1990s. They need our help…The system has to change.” said Louis Burns, vice president and general manager of Intel’s digital health group.

West Lothian’s telecare work is often referenced but seldom explained in detail.

careMonitor is a service that combines video conferencing, Internet surveillance, and remote medical diagnostics (telemedicine) into a cost-effective package for home-based support of older people with health needs.

Those who become adept at and use a computer appear to have fewer depressive symptoms than those older adults who aren’t so technologically connected.

Which slates the Department of Health’s response to the Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT) recommendations on care homes. It falls short of fully addressing the problems raised by Which?’s super-complaint.

Eleven centres in three countries, England, Poland and Italy, participated in the Heart Failure in Hospital and Home (HHH) trial. Around 450 patients with heart problems were signed up for the randomised controlled trial.