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May 19

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Changing Practices: Home and Community Based Care Technologies for Independent Living
Date: Wednesday, May 19th
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm


Location

Courtyard Plaza Senior Living
6323 SE Division St.
Portland, OR 97206
in the Activities Room

Sponsored by

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& Courtyard Plaza Senior Living

Registration Fees

$15 OGA Regular/Professional Members
$  5 OGA Student or Senior Members
$25 Non-Members

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About the Speaker
Eric Dishman
Intel Fellow, Digital Health Group
Director, Health Innovation and Policy
Intel Corporation

Eric Dishman is an Intel Fellow and director of Health Innovation and Policy for Intel’s Digital Health Group, which he helped launch in 1999. He founded the Product Research and Innovation team responsible for driving Intel’s worldwide healthcare research, new product innovation, strategic planning, and health policy and standards activities. In 2007, Dishman was named an Intel Fellow, one of only 46 Intel executives awarded this designation in recognition of industry leadership in science, technology and innovation.

Dishman is widely recognized as a global leader in driving healthcare reform through home and community-based technologies and services, with special focus on enabling independent living for seniors. He and his team’s work have been featured in publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Business Week, and USA Today. The Wall Street Journal named him one of “12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement.”

An internationally renowned speaker, Dishman has delivered dozens of prominent keynotes on independent living across the globe for events such as the annual Consumer Electronics Show and the IAHSA International Conference, as well as for organizations including the National Governors Association. He has published dozens of articles on independent living technologies and co-authored many government reports on health information technologies and health reform.

Dishman co-founded some of the world’s largest research and policy organizations devoted to advancing the cause of independent living, including the Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre, the Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST), the Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer’s Care (ETAC) program, and the Oregon Center for Aging & Technology (ORCATECH). Dishman has received numerous awards for his work in helping to shape the future of health care.

Social Networks: Dishman writes about his vision, experiences and concerns on personal health reform. You are invited to become a part of the conversations which will help drive awareness in this important space.

Program Description

For all the international attention to healthcare reform, precious little attention has been paid to challenging the hundred year old premise that care is best practiced in an institutional environment, delivered by highly trained medical experts, and deployed reactively once someone is already sick, frail, or injured. If we are truly to improve quality of life for more people—and more older people—globally, while slowing the growth of healthcare costs, then we have to find ways to move beyond hospital-and-clinic centric practices to home-and-community based ones. We have to shift the locus of care—as well as some of the expertise and responsibility—to the home and to the family. The convergence of computing, communications, consumer electronic, and medical technologies offers us a “platform” for doing this. These technologies, while no magic pill, offer innovative ways to do home-based prevention, early detection, behavior change, social support, and caregiver engagement. I will give examples and show prototypes from Intel’s ethnographic and pilot research in more than 1000 homes of seniors from 20 different countries that explore how independent living technologies can help us rethink the aging experience from “patient” to “provider” and shift care to the home.