Sep
22
Posted by Compete
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We are looking for an individual(s) to provide us with data entry services. We will provide the necessary resources, websites and direction of where to get the data. The person will then copy, paste the source data into Microsoft Excel documents.
For example, we’ll direct you to a website or other resource and ask you to extract all contact details you can find for the organizations listed including; organization name, contact name, address, phone, email, etc. We are looking for someone who would like ongoing work.
We will initially provide the person with one data source so we can evaluate the job time and quality of the returned data. We will have a steady flow of work and data sources for the individual if things work out.
We will provide the person with a sample Excel file to use as a template.
Sep
22
Posted by LaGiannina
Best support for cognitive disorders :
50 million informal caregivers
The future of the US economy will, to a large degree, depend on a good solution for the largest problem: the runaway cost of healthcare. One of the worst problems in the healthcare segment are the brain, mind and neurological disorder based illnesses. The veterans returning from Iraq , 1.6 million served so far, have developed PTSD (300,000 cases) and depression (another 300,000 cases)
The brain and mind oriented so called cognitive disorders include: PTSD, ADD, ADHD, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, bipolar, depression, strokes etc.
Mind stimulating interactive games would be great help to reduce the severity of these problems. The family and informal caregiver can become the one who takes the mind oriented interactive games, then plays with the care recipient, thus lowering the cost of medicine.
In a recent statement the family caregiver organization says it well:
There are more than 50 million family caregivers in the USA and they provide 80 percent of the long term care services to the 100 million homebound people in need of care. These uncompensated services provided by the caregivers amount to more than 400 billion dollars annually.
One of the best ways to maintain and even improve one’s health, in addition to the approved medical procedures, is mind-body interaction. It is a well established fact that when a person who is ill gives up and does not fight and try any longer, that person simply drifts away and expires.
This is especially true for the so called homebound people, the ones who need care. The combination of the people of the world who are either in need of care, like the frail elderly, the chronically ill and the disabled, or the providers of informal care like family and friends amount to half the population of the world. One third of the world’s population is in need of care from family and friends and one sixth of the world’s population are these caregivers. The professional studies which deal with mind-body interaction are called PsychoNeuroImmunology and NeuroPlasticity.
We have a short book which describes the ideas, political and technical, a system how to bring about the health benefits of mind-body interaction resulting from cognitive and collaborative use of interactive games of skill on the Web, especially on the newer Web 2.0 (version 2) which more like a person-to-person, social connection Web One of the potential best ways to collaborate and get involved with cognitive activities is via the use of interactive games. But not games of chance, which are too stressful and stress is bad for health. The most helpful games are games of skill. Most card games like poker are based on, to a very large degree, on pure chance, and maybe some psychology to bluff and read the other players. But the chance element: what kind of cards a player may be dealt dominates the game. So we need a pure game of skill in which the chance element is totally eliminated. The problem is that chess is too complicated, checkers is too simple and Sudoku is a little artificial.
This project proposes a new game of skill based on the rules and purpose of poker, which is well known throughout the world, but, instead of chance, the play is performed based on rules of skill. It should be noted that everybody can use MindPowerPoker in any and all its forms, not just the people in need of care and their caregivers.
I had gained deep insight into the requirements of the people in need of caregiving and their caregivers when I worked for John Garamendi, now Lieutenant Governor of California, then State Senator.
I have many years of personal experience using AT (assistive technology) and found it very helpful in SPMS (secondary progressive multiple sclerosis) conditions as described below in a brief review of my personal experiences.
In addition to my extensive experience with AT, I also have related graduate credentials from both California State Univ at Northridge (the center for AT corporate interactions) as well as CSU in Sacramento and UOP, Universaty of the Pacific in Stockton.
To compensate for a total loss of motor skills due to Multiple Sclerosis (MS), I have focused on the development and performance of mental tasks. I write articles. I create books, I play Scrabble all with the help of my caregiver-hero husband Laszlo. We watch DVD movies and documentaries from Netflix, a great service indeed, and listen to magazines and books on tape provided by the Library of Congress, another worthwhile service to people with disability, delivered at no charge. Then we discuss the content of these publications.
My husband reminds me frequently that “no one is disabled when on the Internet, when one interacts via the Web”. So I use him as my VoxBot (voice robot) and KeyBot (a keyboard robot) when I want something quick via the Web.
