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Expert View The Marriage of Technology and Alzheimer's Caregiving: Staying Safely at Home Longer
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EXPERT VIEW The Marriage of Technology and Alzheimer's Caregiving: Staying Safely at Home Longer
The Oaks, a United Methodist Continuous Care Retirement Community, is located in Orangeburg, which is inland from Charleston, South Carolina. What attracted us was the exciting work being done there to give people diagnosed with dementia the ability to live at home with dignity while providing peace of mind for family members and caregiv-ers. The Oaks provides traditional senior services and care combined with a look to the future, recognizing that there is extraordinary pressure to move long-term care from the institutional facility back into the community.
The visionary leader of the Oaks is the Rev. James McGee, CEO. When we met with him and Stacie Pierce, the director of the technology/caregiving solution program called Live at Home Technologies, they had recently returned from meeting with IT wizards in Israel. The purpose of the trip was to further their research, development, and implementation of innovative technologies to provide remote in-home care for people affected by dementia. Some of the activities monitored include motion of an individual or lack of motion, bed and chair activities, medication access, patterns of movement through the home, daily body weight, daily blood pressure and blood glucose, time spent in the bathroom, the opening and closing of interior and exterior doors, and...
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- Alzheimer's and the Practice of Law: Counseling Clients with Dementia and Their Families (ABA)
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Expert View I Have Become My Wife's Parent
- Chapter 1 What Is Alzheimer's Disease?
- Expert View Client Confabulation: the Attorney's Consternation
- Chapter 2 Ethics and the Alzheimer's Client
- Chapter 3 Life, Death, and Care Instructions
- Appendix Health-care Power of Attorney and Combined Advance Directive Legislation
- Expert View Surprising Truths Within Hospice Care
- Expert View 10 Tips for Caregivers
- Chapter 4 Special-needs Trusts and Pooled Trusts
- Appendix A Declaration of Trust (excerpt)
- Appendix B Will of John Pourback
- Expert View The Marriage of Technology and Alzheimer's Caregiving: Staying Safely at Home Longer
- Chapter 5 Government Benefits
- Expert View The Red Flag of Alzheimer's: a Change of Character
- Chapter 6 Guardianships and Conservatorships
- Expert View Even Experienced Lawyers Make These Mistakes
- Chapter 7 Financial Exploitation
- Expert View When the Indispensable Caregiver Is the Abuser
- Chapter 8 Personal-care Agreements and Nursing Home Contracts
- Expert View The Hope of Vanquishing Alzheimer's Disease
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