#aging-in-place — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aging-in-place, aggregated by home.social.
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Carnegie Mellon University: SURF Student’s AI Kitchen Tracker Aimed at Empowering Older Adults. “As a junior majoring in artificial intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University, Glenda Tan is using her Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) opportunity to address a growing global challenge: helping older adults live independently and with dignity. Her project, developed in […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/06/carnegie-mellon-university-surf-students-ai-kitchen-tracker-aimed-at-empowering-older-adults/ -
New Article in Health Policy: »Experiences and social constructions of loneliness in later life: Collaborative focus group discussions in Germany«
Graphical abstract of the articleWhile Aging in Place – the possibility to grow old in one’s own home – is a wide-spread ideal for many people, it comes with an increased risk of loneliness in later life. In a study spearheaded by my PhD student Andrea Kastl and co-authored together with Ulrike Fettke, we empirically explored the perspectives and practices of dealing with loneliness as voiced by older people who want to age in place. The study entitled “Experiences and social constructions of loneliness in later life: Collaborative focus group discussions in Germany” has now been published in the journal Health Policy. Our main conclusions based upon collaborative focus group discussions:
Assessing loneliness requires taking individual perspectives into account, as mere quantification of social contacts is insufficient for evaluation or intervention design. To help cope with loneliness, health professionals are an important social interface and can become a substitute for close relationships. This should be reflected in professional roles and in developing complementary technologies and policies.
The article is available open access over at Health Policy.
#agingInPlace #AndreaKastl #collaborativeFoucsGroups #HealthPolicy #lonliness
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Ottawa FYI 🧹
If you’re a low-income resident with a medical need & limited supports, the City’s Home Support Services can help with light housekeeping (floors, laundry, kitchen, bathroom). Worth knowing & sharing:
https://ottawa.ca/en/family-and-social-services/financial-and-social-assistance/apply-financial-assistance/home-support-services
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Help Shape Local Aging & Disability Services: Join a Public Hearing This January
Link includes meeting dates, ways to join virtually and/or send comments
#LosAngelesCounty #disability #caregiving #AgingInPlace
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CALACOUNTY/bulletins/3ff1977
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Just wrote SMS, "Welcome to Geriatric Land" and proceeded from there to describe the task that needed to be carried out in prep for Tuesday's doctor's appointment. Didn't send them a sample photograph.
Flashing back to the blazing feminist article, "Welcome to Cancer Land".
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Found my most-favourite-so-far introductory dementia-carer video.
Accessible, personable, engaging, burden-lightening.
#Dementia #AgingInPlace #TeepaSnow #DementiaTraining
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Discovered #NaniEdgar singing #AlohaOe.
Beatifully sad, gets the tears and sadness flowing.
Which we rather need around here.
Little pesky English (?) to take the focus away from the tone of the singing and instruments.
If not now then when?
#Dementia #DementiaCare #AgingInPlace #HomeCare #Tone #Grief
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Phoned #AlzheimersWA - they're about real time support for carers (and those living with it I thnk).
Phoned #DementiaAustralia - they provide "info" and "trainings" for carers and professionals.
They both seem to be very well run, well staffed and, I guess, well funded.
I'm feeling very relieved finding this quality of support available.
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CW: King Lear
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After a hard day of #AgingInPlace aged care including too much back office Google-type technocrap, I'm settling down for a relaxing 1:12 hr:min of a dangerously deluded manipulative parent, career-minded offspring, mass violence, despair, betrayal & god knows what other delights, contained in a #TableTopShakespeare of #KingLear performed by #RobinArthur of #ForcedEntertainment with appearances by a stella cast of sauces bottles, bicycle shed lubricants & glass cylinder vases. -
CW: toilet hygeine, bottom washing
#Toileting
#AgingInPlace
#DementiaUsed a #BidetToiletSeat frequently?
How do you find them?
Do they largely replace toilet paper?
Got features to recommend?
Features that don't work for you?Looking at trying one out to solve / reduce a recurring cleaning problem.
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#AssistiveDevices and "normal devices".
#BigButtonPhone ( works on #VOIP).
Six button #SimpleTVRemote.
normal Cordless Phone
normal TV remote
Assistive forms working successfully so far.
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Autonomy & Manipulation
This stuff is more complex than I'd thought.
I've bought a #RedPlate and now an #ElderlyRelative is not rejecting their meal, or rejecting it so much less that all of it gets eaten.
I'd like to hear from other carers and also parents on when you think manipulation is ok, when it fits with autonomy, when it doesn't, when it's not ok, and things like that.
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This is the only session of #MindfulFallPrevention I’m teaching this term, sign up now!
Series begins January 7th; THIS Wednesday!
This program is very low cost, even if you’re not a Portland resident. If 1-2:30PM Pacific time on Wednesdays works, you can join from anywhere!
Register today for five weeks of accessible movement, different types of meditation practices, and safety topics to reduce fall risk!
https://anc.apm.activecommunities.com/portlandparks/activity/search/detail/193156?
#YogaTherapy #Yoga #FallPrevention #PublicSafety #Aging #AgingInPlace
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Was asked to open the plastic honey tub after a 45 year old massuese known for strong massages was unable to open it even with a spoon.
This is ridiculous - over half the population will be unable to open these food containers. We need government regulation.
#AccessibilityOfPackaging #Packaging #ConsumingIn2025 #AgingInPlace #FoodPackaging
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An #ElderlyRelative is heartily sick and tired of taking 5 x #FishOil capsules the size of footballs (hyperbole).
Today the first dessert spoonful of fish oil went down in seconds with no drama.
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#Australia
Looking at #AustralianValues.In the light of #AgedCare both commercialised and #AgingInPlace.
Claim is that some 50% of institutionalised aged care recipients don't get even one visitor a year.
It's been pointed out that many of these folk will have made choices that; A. had them lacking a support community, B. had them with no friends/family who they wanted to visit them, and/or, C. have no one wanting to visit them.
Their choices form part of Australia's values.
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The Art of Aging in Place: Designing for Longevity https://waldrondesigns.com/conversation/u0u99irkocpcofahq87gpc9lkz5n3o
#interiordesign #architecture #homedesign #OurPassionYourParadise #LivingInPlace #AgingInPlace
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Today @univienna: Celebrating our PhD candidates Magdalena Berger and Medina Adulyarat
@transformres.bsky.social presenting their PhD Project on# IndigenousGeographies & #ClimateAdaptation in #Ethiopia
and #AgingInPlace in #Thailand's
South. 🌟 #PhDChatter
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Been thinking about the benefits to a community, a nation, and individuals, in having to some large degree, folk with #Dementia being cared for by family and/or friends being #AmateurCarers.
Some similar benefits might also come with #AgingInPlace. And be largely lost with #CommercialisedAgeCare.
(To be clear, I'm not advocating that this care be imposed on family and/or friends.)
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#AgeTech is projected to be a $120 billion industry by 2030, and over half of older Americans express a high likelihood in purchasing these new emerging #technologies for #aging well at home. More from AARP Research CTA Tech on #AgingInPlace spr.ly/6015vhl89
Empowering Independence With T... -
Most U.S. adults age 50+ want to age in their current home and community. But is your community equipped to meet your needs as you age? 🏡 Read more from @AARPresearch's @JoanneBinette: spr.ly/6018QZeyw #AgingInPlace #HealthyAging #CommunitySupport
Building for the Future: Creat... -
Federal funding for the Older Americans Act has increased only slightly over the past two decades. It has not kept pace with the rapid growth of the 60-plus population and it’s not keeping up with inflation. #AgingInPlace #LTSS More from @AARPpolicy: t.ly/XfX2e
The Older Americans Act -
@Unixbigot 2/2
Bonus: IR sensor that monitors the cooktop for pots/pans that are overheating and the robotic actuator adjusts/shuts-off the heating element
#IoT #InternetofThings #SensorAnalyticsEcosystem #SensAE #TechEnhancedLifestyle #AgingInPlace
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@Unixbigot This may be a bit over-the-top…
A kitchen-counter/work-table mounted robotic arm, with image/thermal/motion sensors and on-device computational-statistics/machine-learning/small-model-generative-predictive-transformer to anticipate and aid partially paralyzed, elderly or just plain clumsy individuals in their activities 1/2
#IoT #InternetofThings #SensorAnalyticsEcosystem #SensAE #TechEnhancedLifestyle #AgingInPlace
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#AgingInPlace is difficult.
#ElderlyRelative's #TileApp reports her credit card is astray in a restaurant some distance from home.Helpers keep getting timed out on website as they try to get a stop put on the credit card.
Phone call to #ANZ #Bank fails as the call centre worker's accent and low volume of speech makes communication with ElderlyRelative ineffective.#FailureToMakeReasonableAdjustment
#AgeDiscrimination #Discrimination
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https://fortune.com/2024/05/11/housing-market-mortgage-rates-lock-in-effect-boomer-renovations/ “less than 4% of U.S. homes combine single-floor living with no-step entry, and halls and doorways wide enough for wheelchair” #housing #aginginplace #ada
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Fascinating student presentation this morning presenting a Health Impact Assessment of #cville 's new and still evolving #accessorydwellingunit program. Two key takeaways for me: an aging in place strategy needs to keep people in view as they age, not hide them away, and we need dependable transit service to help people stay connected to the community. #housing #transit #aginginplace