Monitoring your Ageing Parents with Technology
Over the last year, this report has highlighted numerous innovative initiatives involving elderly care. For this reason, I thought I’d feature an article that ran recently on technology and elderly care in the New York Times. The article is valuable in that it not only introduces different ways to bridge elderly-care through technology but it [...]
Listen: Making New York a Senior Friendly City
Following up on this month’s New York Time’s article, Brian Lehrer of New York City’s public radio station, WNYC, discusses the challenges of improving cities for the elderly with Linda Gibbs, the deputy mayor of Health and Human Services in NYC. Broadening the conversation a bit from the original New York Times article, the full [...]
New York City Aims to Improve the Lives of Elderly
The challenges associated with growing old in some of the world’s largest, fastest, most-intimidating cities are not new. Crumbling side-walks, inaccessible public restrooms, stoplights that favor cars over pedestrians are problems that can be found in most modern 21st century cities.
Taipei MRT Parties with the Elderly
For the city of Taipei, it’s not enough that their subway system has been ranked No 1 for reliability, safety and quality for four straight years (2004 to 2007) by the Nova/CoMET International Railway Benchmarking Group [In practice this means the subway arrives every two to four minutes.] No, Taipei wants its commuters to feel [...]
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