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DTA: The Dependability Telecare Assessment tool
New Book Press Release“Only install sufficient telecare to enable a person.”gdewsbury are proud to announce their most recent publication: DTA: The Dependability Telecare Assessment tool The...
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Many thanks to Telehealth and Telecare Aware (www.telecareaware.com) for their lovely write up on the DTA: Dependability Telecare Assessment tool - The Person-centred Telecare Assessment manual which...
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Proactive telehealth apps
The use of mobile devices to encourage people to become fitter and healthier is nothing new. The more recent development is the use of apps which connect to Smartwatches. As a Smartwatch wearer, I...
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The Digital Access Project which is part of the Assisted Living Innovation platform ALIP have produced released the first of the demonstrations from a venture I worked on. It is available here....
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The TSA Conference 2009 report of exhibitors
The Telecare Services Association Conference 2009, Hilton London Metropole Hotel - Report of ExhibitorsAlthough there were loads of excellent people presenting their wares at the Conference certain...
View ArticleThe Language of Telecare
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean --- neither more nor less.""The question is," said Alice,"whether you can make words mean so...
View ArticleThe increase in telecare
With the release of the UK government’s “Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS” document the emphasis for health promotion falls on GPs as they will be getting the vast amount of money from the...
View ArticleTelecare Efficiencies
One of the main reasons for the use and uptake of telecare is the potential efficiencies it brings. Efficiencies is a euphemism for cuts or savings not the alternative meaning of improving something....
View ArticleChoosing a telecare mobile phone
The telephone is a simple device that has been with us for many years in various forms. In recent years it has undergone some considerable revolutions allowing hands-free communication, number...
View ArticleWondering about wandering
Wondering about wanderingIt is a while ago (2008) that I proposed the enablement/containment models as part of the Dependability Telecare Assessment tool (DTA)...
View ArticleTaking Telecare to a new level
With the beginning of a new year, after considerable thought I have decided to take telecare activities to the next level. Having spent three years as a Telecare Coordinator for a London Borough and...
View ArticleReopening the hornets’ nest - the terminology of telecare – the ongoing...
It has been some time since I wrote about terminology (http://thetelecareblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/language-of-telecare.html) but it’s funny that in the time since that piece was written things have...
View ArticleMoving upwards and onwards
The Telecare Blog is undergoing some major changes and will have some posts removed and others changed. The mother site www.smartthinking.ukideas.com is also undergoing refurbishment, so the main site...
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Tick Box Telecare - its coming to you...
Tick boxes are a standard method used when undertaking large surveys. In research, the tick box serves as a method of gaining quick opinion on a certain subject. This opinion is then translated into...
View ArticleMore on gdewsbury
The gdewsbury freelance consultancy and writing service (www.gdewsbury.com) has now been in business for a while and is pleased to announce it is registered with the Assistive Technology Practitioner...
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DTA a working example - falls
DTA - an illustration of how it can be used The problem Mrs J has recently had a stroke which has left her with a weakness on one side. She has limited capacity to comprehend the consequences of this...
View ArticleWhy don't we have interoperability of telecare devices... yet?
One of the old chestnuts within the telecare arena is the idea of interoperability. Interoperability simply means that technologies can work together, thus a product by one manufacturer can be used...
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Taking technology to the people
For those who do not or have not read Telecare Aware (http://www.telecareaware.com/), I would recommend it for all the latest in news on telecare and telehealth, mhealth etc. A recent soapbox on...
View ArticleThe world's most digital health service - the NHS?
There has been a recent spate of articles alluding to the NHS becoming the most digital health service (see...
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Telecare - the interoperability issue revisited
At a recent Athene meeting I discussed the idea of interoperability and in so doing thought it might be wise to share these thoughts more formally.When telecare was conceived, it appears to have been...
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(Google) ‘Now’ there is something new for people with dementia
For many younger people, after a long drinking session on a Friday or Saturday, if they find that they are lost or unsure how to get home what do they do? Most will turn to their Smartphone to call...
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some thoughts on the Internet of Things and telecare
The latest in a line of buzzwords is the Internet of Things (IoT). It refers to the use of sensor technologies embedded in object (similar to ubiquitous computing) and making objects recognisable. An...
View ArticleThe Future of Health and Technology
I was recently asked to speak at the University of Edinburgh on the 26th May 2014 for Health Informatics Scotland and the British Computer Society. The talk was entitled the Future of Health and...
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When technology turns to help people
For those who follow my twitter feed (@dewsbury) I mentioned how the Xbox’s always aware functionality caused Xboxes to switch on when Aaron Paul says in the advert says ‘Xbox on’ people report their...
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The quantified self and accuracy
Fitness tracking and accuracyThere has been a lot of discussion recently around the usefulness of activity trackers in enabling people to be more health. Some of these are less favourable incluing...
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