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People on the Move – AFrame Digital Wins NIH Telehealth Grant

AFrame Digital announced today that the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded the company a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. The more than $1 million grant supports a two-year study to evaluate the use of novel mobile technologies to improve remote health and wellness monitoring of seniors. The project will monitor 90 adults, aged 65 years and older (including 60 with congestive heart failure), for six months each.  The research will [...]

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High-Tech Music Therapy Delivers Results in Retirement Community

Residents respond quickly to personalized iPod playlists and laser beam music technology Bethany Village has seen surprisingly rapid and positive results through two new high-tech music therapies[...]

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MIT Engineers Create “Old Age Suit” – Video

AGNES (Age Gain Now Empathy System) Overview AGNES is a suit worn by students, product developers, designers, engineers, marketing, planners, architects, packaging engineers, and others to better[...]

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Thoughts on Aging Technology from the Consumer Electronic Show (CES)

Every year thousands gather in Las Vegas to get a glimpse at the newest technology products and ideas.  In a sea of flat screen televisions and gadgets for geeks there are quite of few products and[...]

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Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) Awards Funding for Continuous Fall Risk and Activity Monitoring System

AFrame Digital, Inc., a research, design, and manufacturing firm in the forefront of mobile health monitoring services, is the recipient of a financial award from Virginia’s Commonwealth Research[...]

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Top Products for Age 50+ Honored at Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

In its first annual Sterling Award competition, sponsored by AARP, Silvers Summit organizers today unveiled the five category winners, Silvers Choice winner and Innovator Award recipient during its[...]

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Opportunities and Barriers for Technology in Aging Services – Case Studies

LeadingAge’s Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) recently released a series of 18 member case studies highlighting how providers are using technology to change their business model and how[...]

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Glow in the Dark Grab Bars?

Leslie Marks of the LifeEchos caught this interesting email promotion and we thought it would be fun to share with everyone in the spirit of Halloween! At ProAging we applaud Great Grabz with[...]

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Assisted Living RV Park?

Ironically, I just returned from a week of traveling throughout New England in an RV with my family to find this article in the New York Times. Many of the people that we met in the RV parks we[...]

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