Devices, Tools, Objects relating to better quality life as grow older.
In our initial research on medical alert systems we looked at over 50 different systems, and tested many of the products that look most useful. In our review database we have reviews of most of the medical alert products we have actually tested, and summaries of the ones we have studied online but not actually … Read more
We set out to find the best medical alert app for our Longevity Explorers who wanted to use their smartphone as a medical alert system. We focused on monitored medical alerts, found only three that looked promising enough to test, and did extensive, hands-on, comparison testing. One App emerged as far superior to the others. … Read more
Our explorers have been trying out various gadgets that let them get in and out of cars more easily. So far we have focused on two types of products. The first is a swivel car seat, and the second is a sort of extra “car handle for the elderly”. The swivel car seat is designed … Read more
Dr. Leslie Kernisan recently recorded an interview with Dr. Richard Caro about his hands-on evaluations of personal emergency response systems. This is an in-depth interview and touches on some of the more interesting, and less well known aspects of this category of products, also often called medical alert systems.
Below are several different “personas”. These correspond to broad “types of life circumstances”, and we find it is often useful to ask which of these personas best fits a specific individual before trying to recommend a specific product for that person. We have used these personas especially in our research to help older adults decide … Read more
Dr. Renfro and Dr. Caro gave a joint talk on “Medication Management Technology in Alzheimer’s Disease” at the 2016 American Society on Aging meeting.
Dr. Mindy Renfro and Dr. Richard Caro gave a joint talk on “Technology for Managing Medication in Alzheimer’s Disease” at the 2016 American Society on Aging meeting (March 22, 2016). Below is a video of the talks. Overview The talk is in two parts. In the first part, Dr. Mindy Renfro discusses the clinical aspects … Read more
Thoughts about thermostats and people with dementia. Remember Jeeves, and Nurse Ratched? Imagine they were in charge of designing products for older adults. I wish we had the sort of products I imagine Jeeves would have designed for Bertie Wooster. Unfortunately, we seem to get the products Nurse Ratched might have dreamed up for the unfortunate inmates of “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”.
Since 2015 we have been doing comparative evaluations of a wide variety of medical alert systems, including those for “out and about” use, which we call “mobile medical alert systems”. On this page we include some of our original, in-depth testing results, because even though some of the products have been replaced with newer … Read more
We are running this in-person workshop on emergency response systems, and how to choose them, in Redwood City on Wed. March 2nd at 6.30pm.