Forgets to Wash Hands, Flush Toilet
My mother (with dementia) wakes up often in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and forgets to wash her hands/flush the toilet. She often forgets during the day as well.
Graceful aging: topic: Living Life
The things that make life fun, and more than just getting by, relating to better quality life as grow older.
How to Use an Echo Show that Moves
Amazon recently came out with a version of an Echo Show that you can “move” from a remote place. In other words, you can cause it to rotate its screen under your control while you are elsewhere. I wondered if this might be a feature I could use to help my mother — for whom I am a distant “caregiver” and tech-support person. I got one of the new Echo Show’s (called a Echo Show 10 Gen 3) and tried it out. This solution is about what I learned.
Make Alexa Information Displays Useful
While an Amazon Echo Show provides a great deal of useful information to you, it may be overwhelming to your loved one. In this article, I’ll suggest some best practices for keeping your loved one informed while reducing confusion.
Smart Home for Seniors: What, Why?
We have started to see the term “smart home for seniors” mentioned in the media recently. What is a “Smart Home for Seniors“, we wondered? And how is it different from a normal smart home? And who would want one, and why? And, can you just get some specific smart home features relevant to you — … Read more
Tech Support: Older Adults Explore
Modern gadgets need quite a bit of ongoing “tech support”. Getting help — especially virtually — is tricky. Here is what the Longevity Explorers do. The good thing about modern technological innovations — like smart phones, smart homes, computers, video call technology, or telehealth — is that they can improve quality of life in a … Read more
Project Alexa Calling using Fire TV
You can also use the Amazon Fire TV Cube to project an Alexa Call onto a big screen TV.
Alexa Video Calling on Mom’s Big-screen TV?
How to set your parent up to be able to have video calling on a big screen TV, using Alexa Calling and the Fire TV Cube.
Gerontech Products We Wish Existed
Here are some high-impact, gerontechnology product concepts that do not yet exist as commercially available products — although the technology to enable them already largely exists. Our hope for products like these: to significantly postpone the time at which frailty and functional disability get in the way of “living life”.
What is Echo Show Good For?
Hi, this is Paul Verchinski. I live in Columbia, MD. We have a Village of about 200 members (ages 60 to 95) and have recently acquired 40 Shows thru a grant.. Unfortunatley, does not seem to be a lot of interest in using the Show, only 10 picked up.. We have a group that is … Read more
Technology for Older Adults: Notable from 2020
Photo by Kelly Sikkema There are a lot of things that have been memorable about 2020. Many of them have been pretty horrible. But, in the area of innovation as it relates to the lives of older adults, we actually see some positive developments, and room for optimism about the future. When looked at through the … Read more