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July 3rd

  • Life, the gift we treasure most, yet refuse to bestow on others - Telegraph
  • BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Body may have lain for five years: "In all the 18 years we lived there, Ms Purves never had one visitor, [...] "People always change flats here as there are a lot of students and very few long-term residents, so nobody knows their neighbours and therefore didn't suspect anything." ; [...] "She would sometimes weed the communal garden at the front of the tenements and I used to see her with a huge rucksack and big walking boots... but I never knew where she was going."
  • Namibia: We are dying slowly here ? a pensioner | Seniors World Chronicle: What used to be a sanctuary for the aged ? Katutura Old Age Home ? has been turned into a place where people come to wait for their death on empty stomachs and under extremely difficult conditions.
  • Plans to raise state pension age not radical enough | Telegraph: Lord Turner admitted his report, which helped shape the UK Government 9;s pensions policy, should have been more radical. He said the age when people get a state pension should be raised more quickly.
  • CAALYX: a new generation of location-based services in healthcare: Recent advances in mobile positioning systems and telecommunicat ions are providing the technology needed for the development of location-aware tele-care applications. This paper introduces CAALYX ? Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment, an EU-funded project that aims at increasing older people's autonomy and self-confidenc e by developing a wearable light device capable of measuring specific vital signs of the elderly, detecting falls and location, and communicating automatically in real-time with his/her care provider in case of an emergency, wherever the older person happens to be, at home or outside.
  • Welcome to eCAALYX: Enhanced Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment: eCAALYX?Enhanc ed Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment (June 2009 - May 2012) is a three-year project funded by the European Commission under the AAL Joint Programme (Strategic Objectives addressed: ICT-based Solutions for Prevention and Management of Chronic Conditions of Elderly People).

July 2nd

  • Promises of immortality: "Even if such treatment eventually becomes available on the NHS, it raises profound questions. Should people's lives be extended indefinitely? If not, should society or the individual choose when to pull the plug? Should a 250-year-old physical teen be treated as an adult and served alcohol or not? Would society take long-term threats, such as the environment, more seriously because people will actually live to see the consequences? Does living so long rob future generations of their right to life? Would you like to live in a society without death?" The more sf-nal the times get, the more sf-nal the questions that journalists ask become. Maybe I should just try to be a journalist...
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