In the heart of Southern Finland, where the rich tapestry of urban centers blends with serene rural landscapes, the wellbeing services county of Kanta-Häme has emerged as a provocative example of digital transformation within Europe’s public healthcare and social services sector. Facing the twin...
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Every year, Microsoft’s Imagine Cup draws the world’s brightest student technologists into a high-stakes tournament, but the 2025 edition brings a poignant, deeply personal narrative to the fore. Two Stanford juniors, Daniel Kim and Arjun Oberoi, have propelled their startup dream into the...
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I've a Win 7 PC and am looking to help out an elderly friend who has a Win 10 PC using remote software - while she only lives 2 mins away, I'm finding myself often having to go out for the sake of a 2-min fix - she struggles to explain the problem to me when she runs into error msgs and...
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I'm in a rather blue mood right now, this may be depressive, or sound sour.
Why write this? Teaching? We do need to interfere. To involve when something gets messed up. Unless we do it, people just simply go up in smoke, us wondering, What happened?
Lost my neighbor at her 79 of age, she was a...
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Here's an idea for IT 'Enthusiasts', IT Pros w/ some spare time or retired IT Pros & Consultants. I am doing this & maybe others have not thought of it...
Volunteer your time & services to your local 'old folks homes'. Many of the residents don't have a lot of money (we usually charge a...
French Jean Marc Batard presents his invention a vertical garden which allows elderly people to garden. It can also be used by people who love gardening but cannot bend down at the 39th International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, April...
This was sent to me by one of our moderators Celestra, who has been on the site for some time. CANHR is the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.
CANHR, as an advocacy organization, and like many other sociological studies and investigations of nursing homes in the US, have found that...
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Courtesy N2Care The MEDCottage is a free-standing spare room in your backyard.
Of all the elderly people he's visited, the Rev. Kenneth Dupin remembers a woman named Katie in particular.
Katie had a houseful of treasured memorabilia, and she loved to regale him with stories of Washington...
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