Staying safe, financially secure, and healthy, relating to better quality life as grow older.
Your ability to summon help in an emergency is an important part of the safety net needed for aging in place. But what resources are available? In this talk, Dr. Richard Caro will address two important questions about medical alert technologies.
As people grow older they often become somewhat forgetful. We start to worry about questions like “Did I leave the water running?” How do we make it so these sorts of questions are not things that we need to worry about?
I was worried about water leaks and about forgetting to turn off the water, so I installed an auto shut off faucet and a water leak sensor. Here is how to do it.
My Mom has advanced dementia and I’m worried that she is starting to forget me.
I’ve been looking for a way to automatically play a “remembrance video” for dementia sufferers to help them remember their family members. Here is a solution that use the Echo Show and can be set up to operate automatically without needing a caregiver to operate it.
An especially upsetting symptom of the later stages of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia is when the person with dementia does not recognize a spouse or other family member any more.
We are seeking solutions that can help put off the time at which these symptoms start to manifest themselves.
As the Longevity Explorers explore products and emerging technologies that can improve quality of life as we grow older, the emerging category of hearables stands out as especially noteworthy. Here is why. For a variety of reasons, hearables have the potential to deliver the benefits of “better hearing” to a far broader segment of … Read more
Explorer Frank wanted to turn a manual door lock into an automatic doorlock that could be opened with a person-specific code, and or controlled remotely. His reason was to be able to "check" that doors were indeed locked when they were supposed to be.
Other explorers wanted an automatic door lock so that if they pressed their emergency alert button, the emergency services would be able to get in (via the special "code") without needing to have an external "lockbox" containing a key.
I wanted a simple smart door lock, that did not require major “installation”, and which I could use to have Alexa “check” whether my doors were locked at night when I went to bed.
Photo by Phillip Goldsberry on Unsplash The community of Longevity Explorers are exploring different “hearing” gadgets — to see which ones help in various situations, and to share products individual explorers have used and wish to recommend. Ever have trouble understanding what TV or movie characters are saying over the background music? Know anyone who turns the TV … Read more
There is a lot written about how important it is to get a good night's sleep. But how do we measure our sleep in the first place, so we can monitor whether it is "good", and whether any things we do to improve it actually make a difference?