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A study of the benefits Information and Communications Technology (ICT) may bring to the lives of Irish Senior Citizens. My Contribution to the 'Older & Bolder' Campaign
About Me
- djc
- I am an active Senior Citizen with a working background in electronics/communications and much voluntary work experience in Community affairs who, having discovered great enjoyment and benefits from usage of the Internet,wishes to promote its usage further for the benefit of members of our Senior Community. Much research is currently being undertaken into advanced usage of ICT to allow the development of telecare technologies, which would enable installation of monitors in the homes of older people. These monitors can include fall sensors, panic buttons or flood detectors and would normally be connected to a round-the-clock emergency call and response service. Use of telecare allows, for example, non-intrusive monitoring of whether an individual has got up in the morning, or has fallen, or has had a flood in the kitchen or bathroom. It can also be used to remind people to take medicine. It is incumbent on Seniors organisations to pursue such developments through and beyond the political stages. Please read item 10 of this blog which is my conclusion to this study and outlines my recommendations.
3 comments:
checkout Evert Bopp Blog (http://wimaxxed.blogspot.com/) as he's the man when it comes to Wifi n such.
Other guys running FON sharable Wifi's and also IrishWan 2 take a look at
Lal
Over 50% of schools get broadband via a satellite dish. 512k download and 128k upload. Totally inadequate for a school, nevermind a whole village.
Apropos schools access and 'others' I live on Sherkin Island, in West Cork and am, like yourself, an active older person. Here on the island, and on other islands around here with schools, a satellite link is provided for the school's broadband access. I understand the monthly cost is €1000. At the same time as this was being installed we had a wireless/satellite Internet access facility operating under an EU grant. However, the EU grant didn't allow for any longer term support costs and the 40 or so users could not afford to pay for the satellite uplink and the maintenance. The result is that the facility provide by the €250k EU project is slowly 'dying' and many users are connecting to commercial services. I enquired whether we could share the schools access, with all the usual caveats about priorities, etc., and was told it is a 'private' network, not available to non-school users.
I met Minsiter Dempsey at a conference and he was 'suprised' that Minister Hanafin's facility was not available, especially in remote places like Sherkin and he would 'look into it' I have heard nothing since.....
Bye, Barry
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