Aging in Place: Gadgets for the elderly

10 Gadgets That Could Help Keep Your Parents Living at Home
By Lisa Trottier, Caring.com senior contributing editor


1. E-Neighbor System

2. Magnetic Induction Cooktop

3. Fall Monitoring System

4. VideoEye

5. Smart Bed

6. Automatic Pill Dispenser

7. BioSensor Wrist Watch

8. Temperature-Activated Flow Reducer

9. Personal Emergency Response System

10. Doorbell/telephone flashing-light signaler

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'Virtual massage' for phantom limb pain

AFP/File Photo: Two Palestinian men with their legs amputated lie in their hospital beds in Tel Aviv,...

Virtual massage

More on Wii therapy

It includes Wii cooking, although I'm wondering are the PTs doing it in this video? I thought cooking was an OT domain?

Teacher layoffs, food safety, and wii therapy
fast forward to wii therapy, it discuss about all PTs using Wii-hab to distract patients and also use games such as golf to get them motivated. Again, isn't this an OT domain? Purposeful and meaningful acitivity? Dr. Cheryl Flinn, PT discuss about the therapy. No where in the news broadcast it talks about occupational therapy

Wii craze
Finally, an OT discusses about Wii therapy helping with brain injury and stroke patients with cognition, gross motor and fine motor skills.

Caring for a parent with Alzheimer's

A caregiver's story how she made the difficult decision to place her mom in hospice care

AOTA conference hightlights of 2007

Therapy Times: American Occupational Therapy Associations 2007 Conference
4 min 42 sec - Aug 18, 2006

Therapy Times brings you highlights from last year’s American Occupational Therapy (AOTA) Annual Conference 2007, as well as an exclusive interview with Maureen Freda Peterson, MS, OT/L, FAOTA, AOTA’s chief professional affairs officer. Learn more on http:www.therapytimes.com

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