High-tech ‘Smart Care’ apartment designed to improve health care for seniors, people with disabilities
Technology developed by nursing and engineering facultyARLINGTON, Texas -- University of Texas at Arlington nursing and engineering researchers will unveil a model “Smart Care” apartment next month that is infused with intelligent care technology designed to reduce risks encountered by older adults and those with disabilities who want to live independently in their own homes. The federal Health Resources and Services Administration provided more than $600,000 in funding for the five-year project, which has been a collaborative effort involving premier faculty from the UT Arlington