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By: Health Info

Health Info — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:35:28 +0000

How to Keep an Eye on Elderly Family Members from Afar

Jim Miller
Savvy Senior

Many new technologies have been developed to help adults ensure that their older loved ones are safe…

HOME MONITORING
A basic form of this system — the personal emergency response system (PERS) — has been around for years. With a PERS, a person wears a device (panic button) that sends out a call for help if needed. The problem is that many who have such a device don’t wear it or aren’t alert enough to hit the button if they fall or become ill.
High-tech home-monitoring systems (which still offer the panic-button feature) require no input from the person being cared for. They work through wireless motion sensors placed throughout the senior’s home and collect information on activities of daily living, such as getting out of bed, using the bathroom, eating and taking medicine. The system establishes the person’s routines so it can detect when there are changes to those patterns, such as a person failing to leave the bedroom in the morning. Alerts are sent to the caregiver via phone or E-mail. Family members also can check on their loved one’s patterns via the system’s secure Web site. Companies that offer this product…
QuietCare. A leader in the industry and the first to offer this service. Cost: Less than $399, plus about $150 a month for monitoring (varies by area). 866-593-4314, quietcare.com.
Healthsense. Offers a more comprehensive monitoring system that allows you to keep an eye on just about everything. With a variety of sensors, you can monitor such things as sleep patterns, shower and toilet use, whether the stove has been left on, when your loved one has left the house, etc. Cost: $1,100, plus $70 to $80 for monthly monitoring, though prices vary depending on tier of service and size of the home. 800-576-1779, healthsense.com.
GrandCare. In addition to monitoring, this system has a small computer that connects to the Internet and plugs into the TV, allowing family members to share pictures, E-mails, appointment reminders and more on a dedicated TV channel. Cost: $2,395, plus a $49/month monitoring fee, depending on the service. 262-338-6147, grandcare.com.
MEDICATION MANAGEMENT
Remembering to take medications is a challenge for many seniors. The MD.2 system can help organize medications and dispense them on schedule. It also provides multiple reminders to take the medication. Caregivers are alerted if necessary. The system can be monitored via the Internet. Cost: $899, plus a $24.95 monthly monitoring fee, or it can be rented for less than $100 per month, but cost will vary by distributor. 877-563-2632, imd2.com.
Helpful: epill.com offers a full line of medication-reminder products and services. 800-549-0095.
VIDEO CHAT SERVICE
An on-line video chat service allows you to speak to and see each other. It is easy to set up, though both parties need a computer, webcam and high-speed or broadband Internet connection. Two services are Windows Live Messenger (get live .com) and SightSpeed sightspeep.com).
All-in-one videophones (from such companies as packet8.com… vieson.con… and Ojoservices.com) also can provide this service. Cost: About $400 per phone, plus $15 to $20 per month.

Personal interviewed Jim Miller, an advocate for senior citizens who writes “Savvy Senior,” a weekly question-and-answer information column syndicated in more than 400 newspapers nationwide. Based in Norman, Oklahoma, he is a regular guest on the NBC Today show..

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:00:47 +0000

Oh contraire my man Al. I don’t think all white men are racists. That would mean I thought my father was a racists. I owe my strength to that fantastic man. He gives me drive to continue to stand up for those around me who can not do it for themselves.

You and I may know that we are all the same. But the likes of senator sessions doesn’t believe it. Or would think a man in the powerful position to determine the faith of individuals through the immigration policies would say enough of the histrionics when he witnessed the tears of OTWs having their relatives deported.

Yes, we are all HUMAN. But unless we are treated as less than human by those who consider us mud people.

Thank you for standing up.

Robert

By: Al

Al — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:52:55 +0000

Hi Michelle: Nice soap, looks like something that “NO NAME TAO” would find appetizing.
Other than the soap, how’s everthing?
I have notice quite a bit of bigotry raising it’s ugly head lately.
Partly due to Obama’s choice of a Supreme Court nominee. I personally think he made a great choice. And get this “Robert”, I am a WHITE BOY, and there are many more like me who support equality. You seem to think that we are all the same, and against you which displays the very racsism you so despise. It is an us thing, not an us and/or them deal.
Peace out Brother, Oh BTW we really are all the same, HUMAN.

By: Zen Lill

Zen Lill — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:31:02 +0000

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Luv, Zen Lill

By: Omar

Omar — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:46:31 +0000

I was watching CNN’s account of Senator Sessions losing his attempted appointment to the federal bench. He was accused of being a racist because he called black attorneys in his court boys and white lawyers who represented civil rights cases traitors to their race.

Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden were two of the Senators that voted to prevent him form being seated on the federal bench. Of course whites have no problem electing those types to represent the people as a whole since they are not threats to whites.

The result is that Sessions has been repeatedly elected to the Senate. So he calls it irony that he is now head of the committee for his party that oversees those appointments. It is not Irony that we are experiencing. It is just another example of whites being able to look past a person being racist to OTWs if they see something in him that will benefit them.

Hell, it may be he was continually elected to the senate because of his open bigotry. It is no secret about the racism of that section of the country. Because of their insensitivity towards the feelings and safety of the OTWs the bigot is representing in the senate Sessions is there today to practice it towards justice Sotomayor.

Omar