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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
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Subject: Eldernet: A Senior Citizens Network
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Date: 4 Jan 90 23:28:19 GMT
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[from "Technology Review", January 1990]

			Senior Computers
		       ------------------

  Seniors may gain a window on the world with Eldernet, a computer
network being created by Drexel University professor of information 
studies Margaret Christensen.  By connecting an elder's home with a
hospital, the network could aid medical monitoring.  A nurse could
enter a medication schedule into a hospital terminal, and the home
computer would tell the elder when to take the next dose.  If no-one
responded, the computer would send out an emergency signal.

  Eldernet could also run errands to grocery stores, libraries, and 
pharmacies.  A person could scan lists of goods and order necessities 
without leaving home.  And to help people with physical handicaps,
Eldernet would have voice synthesizers and touch-sensitive screens.

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