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2 The Promise of Technology
Pages 7-20

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... Majd Alwan, executive director of the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies, outlined a program aimed at developing, validating, evaluating, and adopting transformative technologies. And Steve Saling, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
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From page 8...
... population of about 310 million people, 110 million have a chronic disease, 60 million have two chronic diseases, and 20 million have five or more chronic conditions.1 This convergence of aging and disability, combined with technology, has created an economic and political opportunity to rewrite the narrative of aging. New business models and new technologies can combine to create a future that people will want and enjoy because it responds to their needs.
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From page 9...
... All these technologies are either on the market or near to being on the market, but many have trouble being accepted. As a familiar example, Coughlin cited the personal emergency response systems designed to alert emergency workers in the case of an accident.
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... The people who best understand the problems of aging and disability are those who live and work in communities of aging and individuals with disabilities. Researchers develop wonderful ideas, but innovation is putting practical
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... Although evolving, telemedicine is sometimes associated with direct patient clinical services and telehealth is sometimes associated with a broader definition of remote healthcare services" (ATA, 2013)
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... People need passion, urgency, and leadership to act on the idea that everyone should live longer and better. EXAMPLES OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS Geoff Fernie, B.Sc., Ph.D., MI.Mech.E., C.Eng., P.Eng., CCE University of Toronto and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute–University Health Network Whether a person starts off with a disability or not, he or she will probably end up with one, and probably more than one, exacerbated by multiple minor or major complications.
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From page 13...
... Fernie related that in a recently completed 12-month trial on a 50-bed unit that was already reporting high levels of hand washing, he and his colleagues found that the technology more than doubled hand hygiene. Falls Very few older people who fall and break a hip ever return to regular mobility again, and a significant proportion die within a year.
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From page 14...
... Also, new devices for lifting people can obviate the need for as much heavy physical labor. Fernie demonstrated an inflatable device that can extend a strap underneath a prone person so that the person does not need to be lifted.
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From page 15...
... is a program of LeadingAge that brings more than 6,000 service providers together with technology companies and researchers to expedite the process of developing, validating, evaluating, and adopting appropriate technologies that can transform aging; LeadingAge members serve more than 4 million seniors on a daily basis.3 CAST has four strategic fronts: research, policy, standards, and education. Strategic Fronts Research is aimed at identifying available technologies and assessing their value and the barriers to their development and adoption.
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... Care coordination tools allow for shared care planning and care coordination across care settings. CAST identified future-ready, technology-enabled care models (LeadingAge CAST, 2011a)
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... He teamed up with the chief executive officer of the Chelsea Jewish Foundation, Barry Berman, and together they designed and built the award-winning Leonard Florence Center for Living.5 The residences within the center are fully automated to provide unprecedented levels of independence and productivity. As cofounder of the ALS Residence Initiative, Saling is working to replicate the residences around the country.
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From page 18...
... I was very able, 6 months after my diagnosis, when I met Barry Berman, who ran a nursing home and wanted to build something brand new that would specialize in younger disabled people. I was a little hesitant when Barry suggested that this new place would be a nursing home.
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... Thank you for your time, and remember, life is good. 6  PEAC is the Proximis Environment Automation Controller.
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  • sleep apnea
  • aging services
  • care models
  • services technologies

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  • leonard florence
  • nursing home
  • provider organizations
  • florence center

  • category consists
  • care reform
  • care coordination
  • care workers
  • health network

  • chronic disease
  • als patients
  • leadingage center
  • technology agelab
  • joseph coughlin

  • geoff fernie
  • remote patient
  • emergency response
  • fernie demonstrated
  • majd alwan

  • steve saling
  • hand hygiene
  • patient monitoring
  • business models
  • residence initiative


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