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Telecare Aware posts pointers to news items that have a broad range of interest. Authors of those items often use terms 'telecare' and telehealth' in inventive and ideosyncratic ways. Telecare Aware's editors can generally live with that variation. However, when we use these terms we usually mean:
• Telecare: from simple personal alarms (AKA pendant/panic/medical/social alarms, PERS, and so on) through to smart homes that focus on alerts for risk including, for example: falls; smoke; changes in daily activity patterns and 'wandering'. Telecare may also be used to confirm that someone is safe and to prompt them to take medication. The alert generates an appropriate response to the situation allowing someone to live more independently, and confidently, in their own home for longer.
• Telehealth: as in remote vital signs monitoring. This usually, but not exclusively, benefits patients with long term conditions.
Telecare Aware's editors concentrate on what we perceive to be significant events and technological and other developments in telecare and telehealth. We make no apology for being independent and opinionated or for trying to be interesting rather than comprehensive.
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Editor Steve recently finished reading these two books and recommends them. The first, Klondike Playboy is an autobiography by John Boden, known in this industry as CEO of ElderIssues, Florida, and the second, Pitch Anything, by Oren Klaff is essential reading these days for anyone who has to sell new product ideas. Let's just say you won't want these techniques used against you!
And then, of course, there are the perpetual favourites that everyone in every equipment supplier company should read over and over again, by Geoffrey A Moore.
Also - Steve's add-ins for PowerPoint for Windows
And - Steve's App Store for Office (free download)
Demands for urgent and fundamental reform to care and home help services in England |
| Friday, 06 January 2012 08:34 |
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[This may be important for the context of the next stage of the development of the market for telecare in the UK if services and suppliers play it right. Ed. Steve] In a letter published in The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday a coalition of more than 60 government advisers, charity directors and independent experts said that a lack of political leadership must not be allowed to condemn 800,000 frail pensioners to a life of loneliness. They are asking for 'urgent' and 'fundamental' reform to care and home help services in England. Ministers had originally promised to publish detailed plans in response to last year's Dilnot Commission's recommendations to cap personal responsibility for care costs. However, a white paper will not now appear for another four months and a decision on the proposal may be even further away after ministers relegated the idea to a 'progress report' to be published alongside the main white paper. Elderly 'robbed of dignity' by failing social care services Telegraph article with hundreds of comments. |
