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In a recent analysis of pill reminder apps, we had cause to examine 22 apps that helped in one way or another with medication management. Read our analysis, and see the Apps we preferred for managing medication here. There were a number of the 22 Apps which we felt fell short in various ways, … Read more
Tech-enhanced Life released the beta version of its Guide to Personal Emergency Response Systems.
In our initial research on medical alert systems we looked at over 50 different systems, and tested many of the products that look most useful. In our review database we have reviews of most of the medical alert products we have actually tested, and summaries of the ones we have studied online but not actually … Read more
A lesson of The Useful Apps Club Lesson Objective In this lesson you will learn how to set up and use the Medisafe iPhone App (application) to remind you to take a medication on time. We will also touch on a few other features of the Medisafe app. Most of the steps are illustrated with … Read more
We set out to find the best medical alert app for our Longevity Explorers who wanted to use their smartphone as a medical alert system. We focused on monitored medical alerts, found only three that looked promising enough to test, and did extensive, hands-on, comparison testing. One App emerged as far superior to the others. … Read more
Dr. Leslie Kernisan recently recorded an interview with Dr. Richard Caro about his hands-on evaluations of personal emergency response systems. This is an in-depth interview and touches on some of the more interesting, and less well known aspects of this category of products, also often called medical alert systems.
Below are several different “personas”. These correspond to broad “types of life circumstances”, and we find it is often useful to ask which of these personas best fits a specific individual before trying to recommend a specific product for that person. We have used these personas especially in our research to help older adults decide … Read more
Dr. Renfro and Dr. Caro gave a joint talk on “Medication Management Technology in Alzheimer’s Disease” at the 2016 American Society on Aging meeting.
Dr. Mindy Renfro and Dr. Richard Caro gave a joint talk on “Technology for Managing Medication in Alzheimer’s Disease” at the 2016 American Society on Aging meeting (March 22, 2016). Below is a video of the talks. Overview The talk is in two parts. In the first part, Dr. Mindy Renfro discusses the clinical aspects … Read more
This article describes the top modifiable Alzheimer’s risk factors, and explains what you can do to reduce them. Currently there are no truly effective disease-altering treatments for Alzheimer’s, and by 2050 13 million Americans are predicted to have Alzheimer’s. The good news is that a number of the risk factors for Alzheimer’s can be reduced by appropriate behavior.