The Front Porch Center for Innovation & Wellbeing?s ?Minding Our Meds? Project Results Show Improved Senior Medication Adherence With Cell Phone Text Reminders
The Front Porch Center for Innovation & Wellbeing’s “Minding Our Meds” Project Results Show Improved Senior Medication Adherence With Cell Phone Text Reminders Burbank, CA and East Brunswick, NJ (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 The Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing (Front Porch Center), a 501(C)(3) founded on the belief that innovation plays a vital role in enhancing well-being for older adults, announced successful results today from its “Minding Our Meds: Demonstrating Senior Medication Adherence with Cell Phone Texting Reminders” pilot project. Through a mobile health (mHealth) grant from the Center for Technology and Aging (CTA), the Front Porch Center teamed with CareSpeak Communications to pilot the CareSpeak mobile Health manager™ technology. Sprint Nextel provided free phones and discount voice and texting services for the pilot. The project featured customized texting services for medication alerts, diabetes and other chronic disease medication reminders, and medicat Read more text