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.