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Article: Where there's smoke ... the "Smart Home" concept comes home at last--with a few changes.(FeatureArticle)(Home automation software heads the way)
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- Nursing Homes
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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In the last few years, there has been quite a buzz in the long-term care industry about the "Smart Home" concept--a new wave of technologies that aims to monitor elders in their homes electronically and with minimal interference to encourage aging in place. While conference audiences and magazine readers have embraced the idea, they are generally left wondering when exactly this futuristic technology would actually be ready to enter people's homes. For the most part, that question has gone unanswered.
Enter Dr. Anthony Glascock, a gerontologist and professor of anthropology at Drexel University, and Dr. David Kutzik, an associate professor of sociology at Drexel ...