(30:09)It'a a double feature! Watch the movie then listen to CAST Director, Majd Alwan.
CAST, the Center for Aging Services Technologies, was started in 2002 by university researchers, housing and technology leaders, companies like Volunteers of America, Intel, Phillips, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York and Elderhostel, to name a few.
CAST, the Center for Aging Services Technologies, was started in 2002 by university researchers, housing and technology leaders, companies like Volunteers of America, Intel, Phillips, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York and Elderhostel, to name a few.
As we get started, the CAST video, Imagine - the Future of Aging, takes center stage. "The anxiety about the safety of parents contributes to the unnecessary early institutionalization, in some cases" Wow! That hit's home.
In all these stories - the attempts are about the same as what IBM (ETC) do...
They move the data.
I understand the hardships that a younger couple face in care giving for their
parents. It is a strain, it is a hardship, it is a time consuming task and basically double duty if the care giver has kids and a family themselves.
In a realistic view - the needs for the elderly person are the basics
- the breakfast
- the lunch
- the dinner
That is a task every 3 - 5 hrs not once a week or once a month.
Next is the care of the living area
- the bed they sleep in = make the bed
- the living room they live in = pick up stuff
- the kitchen for the eating needs = wash the dishes etc
That is also a TODO task every 3 - 6 hrs not once a week or once a month.
- cleaning the bedroom from 8 hrs of use
- cleaning the living room of 8 hrs of use
- cleaning the kitchen from 4 hrs of use
That is also a TODO task every 3 - 6 hrs not once a week or once a month.
Next is the companionship as playing solitare or caring for the animals - cats, dogs and birds. What I am trying to say is that the remote IBM style data presentation
including Skype Videos are needed but can wait or be used once in a week or once a month.
The IBM effect does not get a round TU-IT for the first items. Solution: we need the robot - the humanoid robot to be this person working and assisting this elderly person - in their home!
That is where the CCRI's h-Robot is designed for.
- fix meals as the breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- Care and maintenance of the bedroom, living room, kitchen
- cleaning and pickup of obstacles on the floor.
and play chess.
We - CCRI working with other international companies - have built over 20 humanoid units that have been deployed in universities with no success in getting them into the business market.
CCRI's plan is to introduce our h-Robot units into a Clinical Lab environment first. The clinical labs have the needs - and the intelligent work force to adapt to the early interfacing to a h-Robot. We have received RFQ's for over 49 h-Robot units
from 10 hospitals locally.
Next is to provide the minimum care in a hospital like 'accident patients with busted arm or leg' before they are released to their home. We have one 'smart house' in Virginia to get the h-Robots for testing and future development. The latest and greatest version - the one we are building now contains the answers and solutions to the requests from a recent safety committee review.
BTW: do you remember me - you met me as you signed your book after the speech given at UCI for Dr. Goran - who is a good colleague of mine.
Request time: it is time for you to take a look at this project and help it along. We feel you would be a good key candidate to - not only assist in funding and development of additional funding but also to get involved in the development of the software guide lines as we develop the 'task solutions' like those early example of needs listed on the upper part of this email.
I am on the UCI campus at least once a week and usually have lunch at the University Club or local places like the Pelican Resort.
CCRI has all those URL's, websites and documents used in California and internationally in 3 countries primarily: California, Japan and Brazil.
My Aunt Cynthia writes,
Hi Frank.....nice reading about the folks. May all your endeavors be blessed and I hope they appreciate all you are doing.
Once a long time ago I expressed a comment to a good
friend who was taking care of her father-in-law -- that it must be so rewarding to help him when he certainly needs her help...... and that he must love her so much for all she does for him.
She educated me then.... that isn't always what happens -- you don't always get the loving response back ... sad to say... Just realize that up front and remember them with love and how good they have been. I tell everyone how my brother & Mary....
raised 6 children....and then took 2 more of Mary's
brother Eddie's boys into their home. What a wonderful thing to do. You should put all that
information into your commentary.....so all who read
it will realize that these folks were WONDERFUL
not just ordinary individuals -- while they had their youth and strength.
"What a shame youth is wasted on the young! " Seems I have heard that quatation some place. Bring out
all their good qualities in your writings. Ask for experiences from others in the family. It will make for nice reading. The world needs role models of decency now doesn't it.
Keep in touch please.
With love to all,