Radio frequency technology helps locate missing elderly

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The rescue is one of many similar stories shared by the company, already well known for tracking stolen vehicles, construction equipment and more recently, computer laptops.

Hybrid tricycle designed to increase mobility

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Not a stranger to designing new technology to meet his needs, Janes worked out a design for the Access Hybrid to give his father a way to be active despite his declining physical health,

Tripping seniors on purpose to stop future falls

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Falls in the elderly cost $30 billion yearly to treat and can send them spiraling into poor health and disability.

House calls for frail elders bring savings

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The old-fashioned house call is starting to make a comeback as part of an effort to improve care for some of Medicare’s most frail and expensive patients.

Study: US Alzheimer’s rate seems to be dropping

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An American over age 60 today has a 44 percent lower chance of developing dementia than a similar-aged person did roughly 30 years ago, the longest study of these trends in the U.S. concluded.

More stressful to care for spouse than mom

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“Your relationship changes. Life as you know it becomes different,” said Raymond Collins, 62, of Houston, who retired early in part to spend time with his wife, Karen.

Poll profiles American caregivers

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WASHINGTON — More Americans may wind up helping mom as she gets older, but a new poll shows the most stressful kind of caregiving is...

Once we start working with the elder, there is no going back

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By Marianne Delorey “Older Ladies,” a country song mixed with some funky yodeling sung by Donnalou Stevens, has recently gone viral across the Internet. She...

Webcam, smartphone: The age of telemedicine

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Welcome to the virtual house call. It’s increasingly getting attention in the United States as a way to conveniently diagnose simple maladies, such as whether that runny nose and cough is a cold or the flu.

Retirees help caregivers cope with hospital stays

Edwin Pacheco was in and out of the hospital for months. He’d survived one organ transplant and desperately needed another. But he wasn’t the only one suffering. Few people asked how his wife was holding up as she kept vigil.