News tagged with dementia sufferers

New 'smart' homes for dementia sufferers

Within five years innovative 'smart' sensing systems that will help the UK's 700,000 dementia sufferers live independently at home could be available commercially.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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LRC’s 'Dimesimeter' named Top 10 Innovation

The Scientist magazine unveiled the Top 10 Innovations of 2011, and coming in at number eight was the Dimesimeter, a circadian light and activity sensor developed by the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Ren ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Robot seals heal hearts of Japan tsunami survivors

High-tech fluffy seals that respond to human touch are the latest weapon in the battle against depression for survivors of Japan's tsunami disaster.

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

GPS shoe lets families keep track of elderly relatives

A Teaneck, N.J., shoe maker has joined with a California technology company to create a shoe that uses GPS technology that records where a wearer walks - and can send alerts to caregivers if someone suffering from Alzheimer's ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Could Alzheimer's disease be diagnosed with a simple blood test?

Spanish researchers, led by Pedro Carmona from the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia in Madrid, have uncovered a new promising way to diagnose Alzheimer's disease more accurately. Their technique, which is non-invasive, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

GPS shoes for Alzheimer's patients to hit US

The first shoes with built-in GPS devices -- to help track down dementia-suffering seniors who wander off and get lost -- are set to hit the US market this month, the manufacturer says.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 23, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

IBM study identifies new generation of connected health devices

Consumers have a growing appetite for health and wellness devices, and this represents a burgeoning market opportunity for device manufacturers that has barely been tapped, according to a study from IBM. The ...

Technology / Other

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

For Alzheimer's and dementia patients, pingpong is a game -- and therapy

On TV screens around the room, Chinese table tennis players are whirling and vaulting, but Betty Stein isn't watching them.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Innovative screening method identifies possible new treatment for fatal childhood disease

Many genes that cause human diseases have parallel genes in other organisms, including yeast. Now Columbia University researchers have used an innovative yeast-based screening method to identify a possible treatment for the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mutated gene found in dog disease the same in humans, researchers find

University of Missouri researchers believe both man and animal will benefit from their discovery that the same gene mutation found in Tibetan Terrier dogs can also be found in a fatal human neurological disorder ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Five new genes linked to Alzheimer's

Scientists said Sunday they had uncovered five genes linked to the onset of Alzheimer's disease, doubling the number of genetic variants known to favour the commonest form of dementia.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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