Living your Life with Wearable Technology (Part 2)

This month, Dr. Ron Brown shows us Part 2 of "how wearable tecdhnology can be helpful".  This is a continuation of Mary’s story, who is a fictitious senior, widowed and lives in a resort in Mesa, Arizona. She has a fall at night that results in a broken hip from an undiagnosed heart problem. In Part 1 covered the importance of knowing what your heart rate is and the many devices that can monitor and record it. Part 2 focuses on fall detection, emergency notification, and home automation to ensure safety for a senior living alone. Ron will discuss how to set up a home network, the Echo Show, Google Nest, and the new Zoom all-in one home appliance.

 Ron Brown's Bio:

"I would like to be known as a retired technologist. My career started as a Flight Surgeon after having graduated in Medicine at the University of Alberta in 1976. In 1981, we settled in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island and I left the military to start a Family Practice. PC’s were just being produced and Microsoft Windows was going to integrate everything. I wanted an electronic office and bought interest in a start-up software company in Calgary that made an Electronic Patient Record. As my Family Practice grew so did our software company.  Over the next 20 years it grew into an International Company and had me traveling across Canada and the US giving papers at many conferences. The topics ranged from patient management, lab integration, security, and data input.

At 55, our two children were well on their way in their own careers and my wife really wanted to get to know me. I retired and sold my medical practice and other business interests.  We bought a 36 foot 5th wheel and traveled as “Full Timers” for two years.  For a variety of reasons, we ended up in Silveridge Resort in Mesa Arizona and bought a home without wheels. For the past seven years we have made many friends and become involved in our new community. I became program director for a very active Computer Club that now has a membership of about 200. I love technology and spend my spare time doing presentations at Resorts in the East Valley and teaching a variety of programs in our resort. I have 10 prepared presentations on a variety of topics and would be happy to be a guest speaker."

The meeting will begin at 7:30 PM, though the meeting will be online a little earlier than that to give everyone time to set up.

The magic number to join the meeting is:

5102138421

Zoom now requires a passcode to enter meetings.  The magic word is:

pcc4me

Start your Zoom app and click “Join a meeting”, then enter the magic number where required in the window that follows. Enter the passcode when requested.  Alternatively, go to zoom.us (spell it just like that in your Web browser – no “http” or “www”), and click on the link in the upper right of the page for “Join a Meeting”, then enter the magic number in the window that opens up, then enter the passcode.

Sorry, you have bring your own refreshments – Zoom doesn’t provide cookie downloads.