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Tag Archives: elderly parents
“Business-idé? Bedste webshop til det globale grå guld med skavanker”
We wanted to share this wonderful post with you. Written by Dorte Toft, an IT analyst, freelance journalist and author at the Danish newspaper Berlingske Business. Yes it is in Danish, but to all of us Non-Danish speakers we suggest to try … Read More
Posted in Aging in Place, Business, Culture, Danish, Design, Disability, Exercise, Fashion, Fitness, General, New Products, People, Physical therapy, Retail, Seniors, Style, Technology, Wellness
Tagged aging, aging in place, beauty, blog, cane, color, Danish, Danish design, design, disability, elderly parents, gerontology, health, innovation, Omhu, physical therapy, Rie Norregaard, seniors, style, technology, walker, walking stick
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Omhu at The LeadingAge Idea House
Last week we were featured at the LeadingAge Idea House in Washington D.C. We want to shout out a BIG Thank You to the International Center for Long Term Care Innovation for displaying our Omhu Canes at their Den.
Posted in Aging in Place, Design, Disability, Distribution, Exercise, Fitness, New Products, People, Physical therapy, Seniors, Style, Technology
Tagged aging, caregiving, color, design, disability, elderly parents, gerontology, innovation, Omhu, physical therapy, seniors, style, technology
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A call to arms in the war on dementia.
High school students in Seoul–Todd Heisler / New York Times South Korea is one of the fastest-aging nations in the world, and the New York Times had an interesting article Friday on how the country is grappling with an epidemic … Read More
Posted in General
Tagged aging, Alzheimer\'s, children, dementia, elderly parents, long term care, LTC, South Korea, students
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Big brother (or daughter) is watching you.
There’s a good overview in the Times today of the new raft of technology that is available to monitor remotely the movement and habits of aging parents in their own homes. The aim of these systems is allow older people … Read More
Letting Go of My Father
It’s a familiar story to anyone who has experienced it. Jonathan Rauch’s elderly father insisted that he could manage by himself. But he couldn’t. In the April issue of The Atlantic magazine, the author describes how he found himself utterly … Read More
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Tagged Atlantic, caregiving, elderly parents, Jonathan Rauch, Metropolis magazine
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