| Home Automation For Those With Mobility | | | | these stories rarely occur and the elderly tend to |
| Problems | | | | be very reluctant to embrace new technology. |
| Home technology has some fantastic benefits. | | | | If I may be so bold, I would like to offer some |
| Devices can make your home better to live in, | | | | ideas about why home automation has not been |
| the technologies can save energy, increase | | | | better-utilized by older people and those with |
| entertainment and allow tasks to be carried out | | | | difficulty moving. firstly companies tend to market |
| more quickly. These benefits and many, many | | | | home automation to those that have a moderate |
| more are encouraging more people to implement | | | | 'technical ability' and those with a moderate to high |
| automation technology within their homes. | | | | spending power, rather than those with mobility |
| I believe that these technologies could actually | | | | problems. Secondly, home automation technology |
| benefit the elderly and those with mobility | | | | often requires installation, which can be a real |
| difficulties even more than the groups of people | | | | problem for those with difficulty moving. |
| described above. Home automation technology | | | | I believe that the best way to get automation |
| could give those who have trouble moving around | | | | products into the homes of elderly and disabled |
| the home more freedom and independence and | | | | people is to make their care givers aware of the |
| could make their care-givers lives much easier. | | | | benefits. That way the care giver can buy a |
| Imagine an elderly widow who, due to arthritis, | | | | product on behalf of the person, in the knowledge |
| has difficulty getting out of bed and moving | | | | that it will make their lives easier. |
| around her bungalow. A remote control that | | | | I hope this article will helped companies involved in |
| allowed her to control her TV, lighting, window | | | | the market increasingly target products and |
| blinds and electric bed without getting up would | | | | services towards those with mobility problems, in |
| surely be a huge benefit and make the woman's | | | | the future. |
| life much easier. In my experience, however, | | | | |