Review of two important publications of interest to people involved in both dementia care and in telecare implementation: The conference report Assistive Technology in Dementia Care and the evaluative report of the project Safe at Home.
Read the review (two pages, PDF).
Publisher’s website: www.careinfo.org/books/
Congratulations to Rugby PCT Intermediate Care Team for reaching the top five for their WristCare implementation in the Health Service Journal’s 2005 Awards in the e Technology category.
LA would like to be put in touch with other users of Initial Saturn control centres. Please make contact by emailing sonja.green@telecarealliance.co.uk
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Telecare user information for local consultation Version 5 December 2005
What role can telemedicine and eHealth play in the care of older people?
Tuesday 28 March 2006, fees vary.
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The benefits of broadband technology would be manifested in lower medical costs, lower costs of institutionalized living and additional output generated by more seniors and individuals with disabilities in the labor force according to economist Robert E. Litan, author of the report Great Expectations: Potential Economic Benefits From Accelerated Broadband Deployment To Older Americans and Americans with Disabilities. News item with link to the report.
Halton Borough Council’s intermediate care service has teamed up with the NHS to launch the Telecare system. Good to see it going public.
A partnership of business, community and city council leaders believes the city can win the government’s £7 million ‘Digital Challenge’. Bristol is already one of the top European locations for wi-fi network provision, digital technology research and development, creative industries and online service delivery, public consultation and democratic engagement. Press release.
The evolution of ‘telecarers’ and the ‘cyber divide’ worries many policy makers. People with lower educational achievement or income have worse health. They also make less use of the internet. If more healthcare services are shifted to new media, will health inequalities worsen? Given some of these concerns, people may rise up en masse and reject the use of such technologies in health care, leading to a ‘great revulsion’ analogous to the anti-genetically modified foods campaign. These are some matters raised in a wide-ranging reflection on ehealth possibilities and issues by Jeremy C Wyatt, Professor of Health Informatics and Frank Sullivan, NHS Tayside Professor of Research and Development in General Practice and Primary Care (University of Dundee). Also of significance to people interested in telecare. Read here.
Thorough article discusses the areas of concern. Psychiatric Times.
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