Products & Resources: Better living, aging, technology
Below are products and resources our Explorers have found useful or interesting in their search for ways to help mitigate the challenges of growing older.
NOTE: If you are looking for medical alerts, you can find our coverage and product reviews here: Medical Alert Systems: Selection Guide.
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Pria: Home Care Companion
Pria is a voice activated robot intended to manage medications as well as provide health and wellness information via the Internet and an app.
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MIT Open Style Lab
Whether by accident, injury, amputation, disease or any other cause, functional challenges continue to cause problems with regard to dressing fashionably with minimal assistance. Born of the marriage of the occupational therapy and fashion design disciplines, the MIT Open Style Lab is assembling...
Sereonic TV Soundbox
Speaker that can play the sound from a TV, and be positioned right by a person who needs it to be louder, with independent volume control.
The Gilhoolie Jar Opener
The Gilhoolie Jar Opener is a device intended to make easy work of opening tight jar lids and bottle caps.
Five Wishes
Five wishes is an online service that enables you to create an advance directive.
Retirement Lifestyle Coaching by Larry Jacobson
This is an online video coaching program, designed to help you plan a fulfilling and meaningful retirement. It's delivered by Retirement Coach Larry Jacobson, based on his personal experiences of retiring and learning how to plan his own retirement.
Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers
This is a book about planning retirement for those aging alone (solo agers). One of our explorers brought it along to a meeting and recommends it.
CallToU Caregiver Call Button
CallToU is a wireless call system intended for indoor use to alert the intended helper that assistance is needed by the user.
Mom's New Pad
Mom's New Pad is a California Bay Area senior referral and relocation service designed to address all of the major roadblocks to downsizing and moving.
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning is a book intended to guide persons in later life in organizing and de-cluttering household goods and records to leave an orderly home for survivors.
Caring - the App
Caring is a smartphone app designed to help organize the information that designated family and friends are likely to need when caring for a friend or family member.
PREPARE for your care
PREPARETM for your care is a didactic in the form of a series of documents and film clips which are intended to instruct the viewer how to make medical decisions and document them so they can be realized at a later time.
Bemer Vascular Therapy Products
Bemer products are intended to produce beneficial health effects by stimulating the vascular system in the smallest blood vessels.
Zinger Chair
The Zinger Chair is a mobility device designed to be more agile and portable than standard wheelchairs.
EZ Lite Cruiser Portable Mobility Device
The EZ Lite CruiserR Portable Mobility Device is a folding power wheel chair designed to be taken by travelers on air and cruise lines.
FallCall Lite
FallCall Lite is an iOS software based system including the Apple Watch, iPhone and Homepod intended to serve as a monitoring system with voice activation capability.
UPWalker Upright Walker
The UPWalker upright walker is a rollator with elevatable lower arm support and upright handles intended to allow the user to stand upright during use.
FamilyGram
FamilyGram is an iPhone app intended to connect family or friends and to foster connections via a private social network.
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Medical Alert Systems: Help
We kept getting asked "which medical alert system is best?"; and "how do I choose the right medical alert system for me?". This independent, objective, hands-on research tries to answer those questions. If you are looking for a medical alert system, either for yourself or for an older adult such as a parent, this piece of research is for you.
Choose the Right Medical Alert System for YOU
Useful Apps Club
Unlock the potential of your smartphone or tablet to improve your life. The Useful Apps Club is for older adults and Boomers who have a smartphone or tablet (or are thinking of getting one) and need help to turn it into a useful tool. We are focused on finding Apps that can change your life, and teaching you how to use them.
Reduce Fall Risk
Read the "best of the web" on: Avoiding Falling. Our team of clinicians and citizen analysts has scoured the web for the best available answers to a set of questions designed to help you make falling less likely, and make the consequences if you do fall less bad.
View: Avoid the Perils of Falling
Guide: Home Sensor Systems
Read our report on this new category of products, designed to help seniors stay at home longer, and to help their families worry about them less. There are important lessons to be learned about which ones work, and for which types of circumstance they are optimal.
View: Home Sensor System Guide
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