Telecare Aware has moved – see below

The detailed figures provide a dramatic illustration of just how fast pensioner mortality has improved in the UK.

Engineers at Loughborough University have devised a mobile phone that easily receive, collate and send a person’s ECG and other vital signs and send them directly to clinicians, eliminating the need for large, fixed, telecare systems in patients’ homes.

‘The Impact of e-Health and Assistive Technologies on Healthcare’ report

Alertacall: new device and service launched in UK

Tunstall will be offering Honeywell’s HomMed Genesis monitor throughout the United Kingdom.

The Social Care Institute for Excellence has published Q&A on direct payments.

Recent additions to the set of helpful materials:
Information for Users and Carers Version 26 September 2005
Telecare and Telehealth Systems – slides Version: 26 September 2005
Telecare Reducing the Lead Time – factsheet Version: 26 September 2005
Link to site: http://www.icesdoh.org/doc.asp?ID=22

The Columba bracelet automatically detects any departure from a previously defined security zone. At the slightest straying from this area, it alerts AXA Assistance’s medical assistance centre which can precisely geolocate the bracelet and speak with the wearer through the bracelet’s “handsfree” feature.

The Finnish company combines RFID and cellular phone technology to help make sure Alzheimer’s patients take the drugs they need. Cool.

These situations, of which we are seeing an increasing number of reports, seem to fail to take into account the beneficial role of telecare linked to efficient response systems. Any comments?