Technology Enhances Caring for the Elderly

Sri Lanka Daily News
August 12, 2010

The elderly are beginning to benefit enormously from advances in technology. A range of high tech-devices are now accessible to them in meeting their pressing medical needs aided by common sense approaches...

A simplified medication management (SMM) is being popularized to avert the instances of drug related mishaps...SMM could be beneficial to anyone who is taking multiple medications several times each day...

Medication non-adherence is responsible for up to 69 percent of prescription drug-related hospital admissions and 23 percent of nursing home admissions in the US. Not only is this a health concern, but a financial one as well. The New England Healthcare Institute in the US has estimated that $290 billion of healthcare expenditures could be avoided with improvements to medication adherence... 

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