(February 12, 2009, New York Times)
Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times. Joseph Hayduk, 86, who suffers from congestive heart failure, transmits his clinical vital signs ever yday via a “HomMed Health Monitoring System” to a Meridian Home Care office where a registered nurse tracks his health.
Increasingly, many older people who live alone are not truly alone. They are being watched by a flurry of new technologies designed to enable them to live independently and avoid expensive trips to the emergency room or nursing homes. Continue reading
