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Home Health Tech Launches Specialty Health Store

First of its kind, new website offers digital solutions for independently living.

Submitted to HomeToys.com on: 02/24/2012, 7:59 am

Home Health Tech by Home Controls has launched a fully-functional retail web store specializing in products that help the growing senior population live independently. The online store is at www.HomeHealthTechStore.com, and orders can also be placed by calling 888-220-7690.

Home Health Tech by Home Controls is the first store of its kind to provide high-tech products targeting the senior market, promoting the philosophy that a bit of technology can provide a safer and healthier environment. The products available at Home Health Tech are ideal for people living independently, their families, caregivers, health partners and care facilities.

“Home Health Tech by Home Controls is now a one-stop shop for a wide variety of simple digital products for our aging Boomer generation,” says Ken Kerr, President of Home Controls, Inc. “There is a great demand for these digital products to help seniors stay in their homes longer and live better and safer lives while doing so.”

Home Health Tech by Home Controls has partnered with some of the nation’s leading manufacturer’s to provide a comprehensive assortment of home health tech systems, covering digital health systems, safety and security, personal health, communication, cognition and more.

Featured product lines include caregiver assistance systems from GrandCare, amplified telephones from ClearSounds and Amplicom, personal emergency response systems (PERS) from Linear and LogicMark, personal health products from A&D Medical, medication management tools from MedFolio, MedReady and MedMinder, cognition tools from Dakim, and communication systems from Presto. Home Health Tech also offers remote controlled doors and windows, automatic lighting, sensor pads, wanderer alerts, flood and fire prevention systems, and much more.

“These products are state-of-the-art and very simple to use, helping those seniors who want to age in their own homes and helping their family and caregivers, too,” Kerr says.

In addition, Home Health Tech by Home Controls offers several programs for integrators and health professionals working in the independent living or aging in place markets. These programs offer special wholesale pricing, extended technical support, customized marketing support, system training, networking and more.

“Many integrators are looking to get into the rapidly growing home health tech market, but don’t know where to go for advice and products to fill the demand,” Kerr says. “Now integrators have a one-stop shop for information, marketing materials, and a wide variety of products aimed at the aging-in-place market.”

Thursday 2-24-11 GrandCare Webinar- Julie Fulmer-Mason from MedFolio speaks

We invite you to join in GrandCare’s weekly aging/technology industry webinars. All are welcome to join us!
Date: Thursday Feb 24th 2011
Time: 2pm EST (11am PST)
Room: Go to grandcaresystems.webex.com
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Topic: “From a Pharmacist’s Perspective: Understanding and Improving Medication Adherence”
Julie Fulmer-Mason shares her expert knowledge in the medical and medication field with our webinar this week. Why is medication non-adherence so prevelent in our society? How can we recognize the risks and problems facing patients? What are the costs? All of these questions and more will be answered during this webinar

About our speaker: Julie Fulmer-Mason
Julie Fulmer-Mason is a pharmacist and the President of MedFolio, LLC. Based on her experiences in the pharmaceutical industry, Julie started her own company, MedFolio LLC in 2008, not only as a means to advocate for the importance of medication adherence, but also to design products that truly help patients with independent 21st Century lifestyles to take control of their medications. Their first product, The MedFolio Medication Management System, was released in November 2010 and is targeted for the tech-savvy aging Baby Boomer generation.

Webinar Objectives
•Review prescription medication usage in the United States and the health care costs associated with non-adherence
•Causes for medication non-adherence
•Highlighting health care cost savings associated with medication adherence
•Detailing unrecognized problems patients face with their medications and methods to improve adherence

This webinar is sponsored by MedFolio