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Why Choose a MOBILE Personal Emergency Response System?
Submitted: August, 2010

Mobile Personal Emergency Response Systems (mPERS) allow wearers the freedom to venture away from their homes, while maintaining personal safety.

Changing Populations in Senior Living Settings Require New Ideas about Resident Security and Freedom
Submitted: August, 2010

Mobile Personal Response System adds Personal Security for Senior Living Residents without Restricting Their Independence.

New MPERS device with GPS solves a critical issue for Alzheimer’s Patients and their Caregivers
Submitted: August, 2010

Mobile PERS System with GPS benefits seniors at risk for wandering, and allows peace of mind for caregivers.

Touchtown Calendars
Submitted: May, 2010

Touchtown Calendars are every activity director’s dream. There’s a lot going on at your community, and fitting all of that information onto one page can be time consuming. The Touchtown system works for administrators because it completely eliminates the task of inputting and formatting activities. And it looks great. Improve communication with your residents AND their families with use of Touchtown Calendars. The versatile format allows you to quickly print calendars for resident distribution, post a link to the calendar on your website, or publish in PDF form.

Touchtown Digital Signage
Submitted: May, 2010

Brighten up the public spaces in your communities! Touchtown Digital Signage can deliver attractive, professional, high definition TV programming to residents, families, visitors and staff across your entire organization. Touchtown gives you the power to create the message you want, manage it with a minimum of effort, and deliver it effectively to everyone in the right way. It’s designed for communities like yours, so you can get a look that’s professional and senior friendly.

Touchtown TV+ Web-Based Community Television
Submitted: April, 2010

A new, powerful community TV (also known as private channel TV) system for senior living, that delivers information about your community via television to residents, and also via your website to families and prospects.

Brain Fitness Software
Submitted: April, 2010

, CogniFit, created an award-winning brain fitness software program that assists the senior population with the decline in cognitive abilities and a dedicated software for driving skills designed to maintain and enhance these in adult drivers.

Revolutionary NEW iTalk Reminder Assistant- Voice Activated Reminder Clock
Submitted: April, 2010

The NEW iTalk Reminder Assistant allows you to easily record important tasks with alarm times. iTalk is completely voice activated and can record up to 10 reminders at specific times for today only, everyday or any day of the week. Speaking English simply talk to the iTalk Reminder Assistant in your normal voice to record reminders, set the alarm, ask for today’s date and more. The iTalk Reminder Assistant is useful, practical and much easier to use than traditional alarm clocks, eliminating the need to use confusing buttons with the addition of a personal reminder assistant so that you nev

Show Me What's For Dinner: Making Digital Signage Work in Community Applications
Submitted: April, 2010

A white paper reviewing digital signage and how it can best be used in senior living communities.

Getting the Most From Your Retirement Community's Website
Submitted: April, 2010

A white paper based on Touchtown's Long Term Care Website Study, that assessed how LTC communities use the internet, what works for them and what doesn’t, and why. Based on the results of the study, the white paper gives readers a practical checklist to make sure you’re getting the most from your website, and offer some observations about where LTC websites are headed in the next few years.

LifeLedger
Submitted: April, 2010

An Internet based caregiver guide and assistance system that improves the lives of the elderly while reducing the stress and efforts of caregivers.

CaraSyst - Assisted Living Care Management
Submitted: April, 2010

CaraSyst is a web-based application that uses PCs and hand-held computers to manage care delivery and documentation for assisted living.

QuietCare Home Health Security System
Submitted: April, 2010

QuietCare is a patented service early detection and early warning system that permits elders to live more safely and independently in their own homes.

HealingHomes, LLC
Submitted: April, 2010

HealingHomes, from Tiverton, RI, is focused on providing innovative, comprehensive, and holistic solutions for home-based living for families with a disabled loved one. Our goal is to maximize freedom and independence for both the care recipient AND the care provider(s). Our solutions enhance every level of human functioning; physical, psychological and social and are reflected by the diverse range of housing and technology products that we provide.

MyZiva - The Platform for Nursing Facility Management
Submitted: April, 2010

The MyZiva Platform combines state-of-the-art technology with the offline expertise of respected professionals in the field to provide nursing facilities with the tools and resources needed to ensure quality care, financial viability and corporate compliance.

Generations on Line
Submitted: April, 2010

Non-profit award winning web-based software that simplifies the Internet for seniors, through step-by-step on screen directions for the basic Internet applications; made free to elders through senior centers, nursing homes, public libraries, retirement centers and HUD housing.

TeleTimecard - Caregiver Time and Attendance by Telephone
Submitted: April, 2010

TeleTimecard™ is an ideal solution for home health agencies and non-medical companies that need to track the time and attendance of their remote employees (e.g. RNs, caregivers). Using a touch-tone telephone (standard or cellular), employees can easily check-in and check-out from a client's residence and even report special hours, mileage, expenses or special activity codes.

Caregiving-Online: online education, support, services
Submitted: April, 2010

Online consultations and programs for individual and organizational eldercare needs. Includes continuing professional education for eldercare providers; nterdisciplinary knowledge-building online; support and information for family caregivers.

Link2Care
Submitted: April, 2010

Online family gand support integrated with a statewide community based system of care.

eWorkflow
Submitted: April, 2010

A new generation of software that defines the steps, sequence of steps, participants and controls that cut across multiple departments or functional areas in order to deliver high quality care at the lowest possible cost.

Touchtown Resident Web Portal
Submitted: April, 2010

Service to help retirement communities create resident-oriented websites

HomeFree Elite
Submitted: April, 2010

Complete wireless resident monitoring solution, including wandering prevention and nurse call systems.

RP-7 Remote Presence Robotic System
Submitted: April, 2010

RP-7 is a remote presence robot that lets you be in two places at once. You can move, see, hear, and talk as though you were actually there.

The Vigil Integrated Care Management System™ – “Vigil System”
Submitted: April, 2010

Vigil Health Solutions Inc. offers a proprietary technology platform combining software and hardware to provide solutions to the expanding aged care market. The Vigil System includes a unique non-invasive monitoring system for residents with dementia; as well as, nurse call, wireless nurse call, voice nurse call, resident check-in, bed monitoring and wireless pendants.


Pilot Projects

FamiliLink- Online communication solution for older adults to stay digitally connected to others
Submitted: April, 2010

FamiliLink empowers families to more easily provide care and support to their elderly loved ones by including them in the digital loop through accessible and user friendly technology. FamiliLink offers a subscription based service for individuals and a hosted solution (software as a service) for senior care facilities and senior communities.

Set-Top Box for Home-based Delivery of Health Care
Submitted: April, 2010

Our research centers on the use of multi-point videoconferencing, using small set-top boxes (the DocBox) which are placed in patient's homes. These units, about the size of a paperback book, connect to a home television and to a broadband internet connection. Our videoconferencing unit requires little or no interaction from the patient, and is controlled centrally by the health care or wellness provider.

Worker Interactive Networking (WIN) & Totally Wireless Sensor Monitoring of Elders Well-being at
Submitted: April, 2010

Funded by the Dept of Commerce's Technology Opportunity Program (TOP), we developed and tested the first completely wireless based system designed to support working caregivers concerned about older adults alone at home during the caregiver's worktime. Known as the Worker Interactive Networking (WIN) project, it offerd workplace Internet access via PC/PDA/cellphone to a uniquely integrated 4 feature system providing a caregiver support group, resource linkages, and remote home monitoring elders via motion sensors.

Home Assurance Monitoring System Project
Submitted: April, 2010

Northeast Health and General Electric Global Research and Development are collaborating on the beta testing of an in-home monitoring system utilizing standard security sensors. This non-video, non-audio system allows caregivers (formal and informal) to observe activity events that translate into an understanding of how the elder patient/loved one is faring in their home environment.

Presbyterian Pilot Project~ Cost effective holistic innovations in providing technology solutions.
Submitted: April, 2010

A state-of-the-art and technologically advanced Parkinson's disease movement impairment residence that is serving as a national model in the care and treatment of Parkinson's and other movement impairment diseases both on campus and within the community.

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Submitted: April, 2010

MIT research group developing proactive health technologies for the home


Emerging Technologies

Sitelligence - Resident Portal Version 3.9
Submitted: April, 2010

Think of the Resident Portal as an Intranet for each community, like a community Facebook but with easy to use communication, activity, entertainment and marketing features specifically designed for senior living communities and residents with little or no computer experience. Each community Resident Portal is branded for the community and can be accesses from your corporate home page or from a unique URL. All people on the system are categorized into 5 user groups. Based on their Username and ID each user is taken to their personal page(s) with different features for each group.



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