High Tech Solutions Redefining "Disabled" - Boston Globe

Short but interesting article out of the Boston Globe titled High Tech Solutions Redefining "Disabled". The article is about how technology is being used to enhance the quailty of life for residents of The Boston Home, a not-for-profit specialized care residence for adults with advanced Multiple Sclerosis and other progressive neurological diseases located in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

According to the article, Boston Home has pulled out all the stops in order to provide residents with "diginity and independence - as well as pieces of the lives they had before they were disabled". From computers, to phone mods to bed lifts to mobility to safety and securty issues, the technology, as one resident puts it, "makes it a whole lot easier to be disabled."

Also of interest is that the facility has entered into a partnership with the MIT Age Lab for the development of wheelchairs integrating voice command technology. That may be cool in the future - but only if they can match the pimped out Gryphon Shield!