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GE-Intel- Aging in Place #2

August 5, 2010
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Listening to the Webcast of the joint venture announcement from GE and Intel I picked up on the following important remarks. Louis Burns from Intel and Omar Ishrak from GE agree that the technology is not the roadblock holding back the market. The barriers are a combination of two major factors:

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GE-Intel, Aging in Place Technology

August 3, 2010
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The big news is that GE and Intel have formed a far reaching alliance to develop and market technology products that “will help seniors live independently and patients with chronic conditions manage their care from the comfort of their home or wherever they choose”* according to a press release from yesterday’s joint company announcement. What […]

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The Same Aging in Place Page

September 17, 2010
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Eric Dishman is well known and very well respected in the worlds of Aging in Place and Health Technologies.  Eric is the face of Intel’s ethnographic research program on aging and technologies. He is an exciting, authentic speaker. Please watch this ‘TEDMed’  presentation. Fantastic. In just 16 minutes Eric provides a wide ranging hit over […]

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NPR Aging in Place series

August 23, 2010
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A four part NPR series by Jennifer Ludden on Aging in Place starts today. The first segment is a very good story that refers to a few families who are planning to age in place. I found one key line to be: “They know they will need help and they have a plan for that […]

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Aging in Place: The Questions

August 16, 2010
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Maryann Haggerty‘s article, A Safe Home, Step by Step, from this Saturday’s Washington Post has me thinking. The article contains good details covering problems and solutions for Aging in Place in homes with stairs.* Stairs are often the culprit forcing folks to move from their house. Planning in advance of a health problem, a point […]

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