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Friday, October 6, 2023

SAM3 Book “Supportive Smart Homes: Their Role in Aging in Place” now available

Supportive Smart Homes: Their Role in Aging in Place By: Frank Knoefel, Bruce Wallace, Neil Thomas, Heidi Sveistrup, Rafik Goubran, Christine L. Laurin Our book is now available for purchase as an ebook or hardcover. Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age... More

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Solutions for aging in place have never been more important in Canada

Article about our work with Best Buy. Canadian Healthcare Technology - Aug 31, 2023 Reaching 40 million in population calls for a celebration in Canada! With nearly one out of five Canadians being at least 65 years of age as of July 2022, the need to have choices for quality aging has become even... More

Thursday, July 13, 2023

AGE-WELL SAM3 Book on Supportive Smart Homes

Link to Publisher Page About this book Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age in place. This book explores how recent improvements in integrated home technologies have the potential to address those challenges. The book considers how embedded home sensors... More

Thursday, June 22, 2023

Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Help Identify Care Partner Burden

Link to Story For many people living with dementia, living at home with family is preferable to assisted living or long-term care. However, as the symptoms of dementia progress, people living with dementia often experience a decline in functional abilities, which in turn requires greater support from their caregivers. When informal caregivers –... More

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Toch Sleepsense technology enables retirement home staff to monitor overnight bed-exits for seniors with real-time alerts

Link to original article Exciting new about a recent SAM3 Project with TochTech Inc. Sensor technology piloted in retirement home can improve health and safety of residents, study finds   May 2, 2023 (Ottawa, ON) – Many seniors struggle with insomnia or may be living with dementia – conditions that can put them at... More

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Municipal Retirees of Ontario Targeted Scholarship – Aidan Lochbiler – SAM3 MASc student

After 17 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in awards, the MROO Scholarship Program added a new wrinkle in 2023, the targeted scholarship. While all MROO scholarships in the past were awarded to the relatives of MROO members entering the 2nd year of a university, college, or equivalent program, the Board of Directors... More

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Jayiesh Singh presenting the Able Innovation ALTA at envisAGE launch

See this great presentation by Jayiesh Singh CEO of Able Innovations at the recent envisAGE launch.  He tells the story of Able Innovations and the ALTA platform including the extensive collaboration with SAM3, Carleton and Bruyère across the years. See our many collaboration projects with Able Innovations.  ... More

Monday, February 27, 2023

Bruyère Procures Innovative Patient Transfer Technology Developed with Help of Carleton Researcher

Carleton News story on the Able Innovations ALTA purchase by... More

Monday, February 27, 2023

Bruyère Procures Innovative Patient Transfer Technology by Able Innovations

The full story including video links is here Research at the bedside has a literal meaning with Able Innovations, a Canadian robotics company focused on patient transfer technology. Today, Bruyère has announced the procurement of Able Innovations’ ALTA Platform™, a robotic patient transfer device akin to a hospital bed, for its complex... More

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Best Buy, Carleton, Bruyère work on aging at home

Coverage of SAM3 by Canadian Healthcare Technology link to article Best Buy Health, the Bruyère Research Institute, and AGE-WELL are partnering on new research into how technology is introduced into the home to support aging in place, in collaboration with experts from Carleton University. Researchers from Bruyère and Carleton’s Faculty of... More

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Sensor networks for safe and engaged mature drivers (SENSE-MD)

Exciting new SAM3 project in collaboration with NRC.  The project includes a multi-disciplinary team of driving researchers including Bruyere, Carleton Systems Engineering and Cognitive Science and a great team of partners including CAOT and CAA.  The project also includes aging adults within the research team.... More

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Search for high-tech dementia support takes on new urgency amid rising rates, aging population

See the full article. This is a story about our work with esprit.ai at Greystone.... More

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