Telecare Aware has moved – see below

Telecare Aware has moved to www.telecareaware.com

Good telecare item on this lunchtime’s You and Yours. Go to ‘Listen Again’ on the programme’s website and navigate to the day and item. You will need Real Player (available from the BBC site) installed to be able to listen.

Professor Ian Philp, National Director for Older People, launched today A New Ambition for Old Age, marking the second phase of the National Service Framework (NSF) for Older People. It sets out how older people’s services should improve in the next five years. The report has a only couple of passing references to telecare…so much for ambition.

A good local news story star for Derby Care Link’s publicity. BBC story.

Full marks to the care home and to a determined bird-watching resident. BBC story.

Organisers of the recent Med-e-tel Conference in Luxemburg have posted presentations and papers for your to browse. Med-e-tel website.

The EU’s IST@HOME project has concluded that to be truly effective video communications needed to be further integrated with other devices such as alarm systems.

The good news: Telehealth study of 216 people begins

Carematix and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing to conduct a four-year study on the effectiveness of telehome monitoring. The study is funded by a grant for more than $1 million from the National Institute of Nursing Research.

A reclusive pensioner who lay dead in his Cheshunt home for over seven weeks before being discovered, may have been saved if he had reached out for help from local community services – it emerged this week.

A hi-tech project which could be a life-saver for older people has been unveiled in Cheshire. Sensors can detect falls, a gas leak and even a pan left on the stove. Read more from the Chester Chronicle.