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    Brain-computer Interface (Brain-machine interface)

    Your replies have been very helpful. I'm gonna look into the Neuroswitch and check out the Facebook videos of it and the intendix. I believe the intendix requires you to be looking at the screen. If you can look at a computer screen, you can also look at a plain old fashioned letter board...
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    Brain-computer Interface (Brain-machine interface)

    Thank you for your helpful replies! My mom is still able to communicate via blinking for "yes", looking at letters on a letter board, and an eyebrow switch on a headband, which controls a special computer. So for now, she can communicate. At this point, however, she is considering getting a...
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    Brain-computer Interface (Brain-machine interface)

    Hello All, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with, or information about, brain-computer interfaces? I'm referring to the caps with electrodes on them, worn in order to control computers or other devices using your brainwaves (no movement. Perhaps it's a pipe dream, but it seems like...
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    Celebrating a good first month back home!

    Thank you twitchykitty. I'm thankful you saw my previous thread from before Mom went home. There were many questions and concerns at that time, and many people doubting our decision. We had people telling us it would be enormously expensive compared to the nursing home, and others predicted...
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    Celebrating a good first month back home!

    Hi all, I'm writing to say that my mom has been back at home from the nursing home for a month now, and moving her home has turned out to be the best decision we've made; she is doing WAY better under the care of a wonderful live-in caregiver. Previously she was in a "good" nursing home, but...
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    Planning move home; could use your help.

    Thank you for the extremely informative reply, lgelb. Now I understand the advantages of the pre-nursing students. I suppose "caretaker" more often refers to someone who takes care of some kind of property, like a house, rather than a person. I think we'll just have to try the carpet out, and if...
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    Planning move home; could use your help.

    Thank you Becky! I really appreciate you telling me your experience with being a caretaker. It's an experience I haven't really had, because I only did care taking in the very early stages. Since that time, my Mom has been at a nursing home. I want to specify that when I said "one...
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    Planning move home; could use your help.

    Thanks for your reply! The student nurse idea is new for me. Thinking back to when I was a college student, I wouldn't have had much time to do care taking. I wonder how that works out for nursing students. Their care taking shifts would have to be fairly short I would imagine. Maybe 4 hours a...
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    Cost of nurses

    Thank you. This advice is going to be useful for me in finding a caretaker for my mom.
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    Planning move home; could use your help.

    Hello All, We're planning a move home for my mother. She's currently at a nursing home. The nursing home can't/won't keep up with her needs, and we can't afford to pay them AND pay a private caretaker to be by her side at the nursing home. So, we're planning to take her home for care...
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