MedCottage, a portable dwelling for elder relatives

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Care in a cottage: Salem company reveals backyard medical home prototype

A Salem pastor's idea for home care in a portable, modular backyard unit is

coming to fruition, with a prototype now on display and investors lining up. By

Bruyn

....The MedCottage includes features such as a pressurized ventilation system

similar to those found in hospital intensive care units. It also has a video

system that monitors the floor at ankle level so a caregiver will know if a

patient falls. Another system dispenses medicine at the proper time and dosage;

it even alerts a caregiver if the patient doesn't take the medicine out of the

system.

The MedCottage is still in its infancy, with many improvements being planned,

Dupin said.

Next the prototype will be taken to Virginia Tech, where several projects are

being planned to study and possibly improve on the model, said Janis Terpenny, a

Tech systems engineering professor and a member of the N2Care team. She is also

's mother.

" ly I think it could be configured to whatever the needs are of the

person, " Terpenny said.

Studies are being planned in both the College of Engineering and the Center for

Gerontology, Terpenny said.

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N2Care debuts MedCottage, a portable dwelling for elder relatives

By Fredrick Kunkle Tuesday, July 20, 2010

A small Virginia firm hoping to revolutionize the way Americans care for aging

family members has unveiled its first prototype of a portable, high-tech

dwelling that would provide temporary shelter for a sick or elderly relative in

their family's back yard...

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Va. launching portable housing for aging relatives

By Fredrick Kunkle Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, May 6, 2010

SALEM, VA. The Rev. Dupin, who leads a small Methodist church here, has

a vision: As America grows older, its aging adults could avoid a jarring move to

the nursing home by living in small, specially equipped, temporary shelters

close to relatives...

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