Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Technology helps elderly with mild dementia

I know this wouldn't work for my parents at all even before they would have dementia. They are making an incredibly giant assumption that technology can be dumbed down enough that anyone can work it. They better have a massive user evaluation test.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=149298&CultureCode=en
Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden will receive 10 million SEK to develop new technologies that will increase the quality of life for elderly people with mild dementia. The technology, IT support via e-readers, will also facilitate for the relatives.
It is from Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, that the project Medical Intelligence for Assistive Management Interface - Mild Dementia received the funds. The project will last for four years.

In the project, new specially adapted technology that can help elderly people suffering from mild dementia will be developed. This may involve, for example reminders so they do not forget to take their medication or an appointment. In addition to raising the quality of life for these elderly people the new technologies will make it easier for relatives and healthcare professionals.
Today, up to 9 percent of the population over 60 years suffer from mild dementia, so there are a great number of people who will have use of the new technology.
The first step is to develop a customized technology that is user friendly. Then the technology will be tested on 2,000 people in Europe. The new technology is expected to be ready for operation in 2020.
The work will be conducted within the research environments sustainable active aging and health and technology at BTH. Responsible for the project is Johan Berglund, professor of public health sciences. The senior project SNAC-Blekinge, which enabled this EU project, has been underway at BTH since 2000.
- With this technology, we hope to support and develop nursing care, increase the elderly persons and their family members’ quality of life while also reducing health care costs, says Professor Johan Berglund.
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