CareWheels TeleCare Project
Channel: CareWheels
Date: 2007-11-14

CareWheels TeleCare helps people live safely and independently in their own homes and communities, using SmartHome network technologies to help keep elders, their families and caregivers connected and informed of their well-being.

The Intel Research Council produced this CareWheels TeleCare Project video, in which Eric Dishman, General Manager of Intel's Health Research & Innovation Group, explains:

"The magic of CareWheels is taking these two disenfranchised communities: people who are of working age with physical disabilities, and using technology to help them support frail elders who are trying to live at home in the community. With a program like CareWheels, we've seen successful use of wireless sensor networks, the successful creation of interfaces that both frail elders and people with disabilities can use."