New York Times reports of the new AAL trend to support elderly people who live alone with new technologies designed to enable them to live independently and avoid expensive trips to the emergency room or nursing homes. New health support devices like wireless sensors, pill compliance detectors and wireless devices that transmit data on blood pressure, weight, oxygen and glucose levels can save lives and money.
One system descibed comes from eNeighbor from US. Healthsense and is backed up of large companies like Intel and General Electric. A wireless sensor under the bed detects when the elderly gets upp. Motion detectors in the bedroom and bathroom register unusual movement pattern and relayed that information to a central monitoring system, prompting a telephon call to to ask if everything is all right. When nobody answers, more calls are done — to a neighbor, to the building manager and finally to 911, which dispatched firefighters to break through her door.
The article refers to user experiences from formal and informal care givers who recognize that eHealth technology will change conditions for health and elderly care and the relation between patients, elderly, doctors, nurses and family members.
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