Telecare Aware has moved – see below

And while you are shopping for an emergency alerting device, why not pick up a stun gun or taser, too?

Interesting development that uses ultrasound sensors rather than radio devices to track patients around a hospital. And patient and equipment tracking using wide-band RFID tags.

Falls often happen soon after an older person has got out of bed or stood up from a chair because of a drop in blood pressure. “When we stand up, a certain head of pressure is required to supply the brain with blood. If this system is impaired in an old person, the blood doesn’t get there fast enough.”

Thousands of people in care homes are being given the wrong medicine, someone else’s medicine or doses that are dangerous.

Age Concern England and BT announce a three year partnership worth £240,000.

The heavily trailed White Paper ‘Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services’ has been published.

The Self Assessment Rapid Access (SARA) programme allows users or carers to work through an assessment for equipment and provides a tailored report and has now been made available to the public.

Freebridge refused to take over the service from the council, saying it wasn’t part of the transfer deal

Care ‘threatened’ by council cuts.

Wildly provocative title leads to an interesting discussion