Topics and Things: Aging, Technology, Better Life
Our community is exploring, evaluating, and conceptualizing products, and techniques to improve quality of life as we grow older, and postpone the time when aging gets in the way of living life to the full.
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Organized by "Thing"
Because our work often focuses on products and gadgets, we also organize the content by Categories, or "Things".
Featured Research
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
Avoid Social Isolation & Loneliness
Our community is exploring ways to avoid becoming isolated and lonely as we grow older. See what we are discovering — including one group of older adult's "recipe" for overcoming loneliness.
View: Isolation & Loneliness Hub
Medication Management Tools
Poor medication management is one of the key reasons people are forced to stop living independently. There are a wide range of tools that can help you manage your medications — and avoid, or at least postpone, that fate. We have researched which products work best for different types of people, ranging from simple inexpensive pill boxes and reminders to complex "automated" pill dispensers.
View: Medication Management Hub