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Better Health Care Through Technology: What can you do for aging loved ones?
Mache Creeger
ACM Queue - Bioscience
Better Health Care Through Technology What can you do for aging loved ones? Mache Creeger, Emergent Technology Associates
Leveraging technology to support aging relatives in their homes is a cost-efficient
way to maintain health and happiness and extend life. As the technology expert
for my extended family, it has fallen to me to architect the infrastructure
that will support my family’s aging loved ones in their homes as long
as possible. Over the years, I have assisted four different senior households
in achieving this goal, and although things have been bumpy at times, I have
refined technical solutions and methodologies that seem to work well.
There are two major elements involved here: the prompt response to a medical
emergency and the consolidation and timely dissemination of current medical
information. Here is some of what I have learned.