{"56057":{"#nid":"56057","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DATHA for March: Kim McRae - From Caregiver to Designer","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Design and Technology for Healthy Aging (DATHA) Initiative at Georgia Tech welcomes Kim McRae, who will discuss \u0022How Does a Family Caregiver End Up With Patent and Pending Patents?.\u0022 Kim McRae has an 11 year history as a family caregiver and a consumer of aging services. During a five year period, she and her husband took care of - and lost \u2013 his mother, his father, and her father. When her father died, Kim \u0022inherited\u0022 her mother, who had yet undiagnosed Alzheimer\u0027s disease and Lewy Body dementia. Kim\u0027s Mom lived with them for four years, then spent four years in an Alzheimer\u0027s unit of an assisted living facility in Atlanta. Kim has been studying dementia care and long-term care in depth for more than eight years to learn how to help herself help her mother. During this time, it became evident that there is a huge need for products to help both the caregiver and the care receiver.  Together with a B.A. in Journalism from The University of NC at Chapel Hill; a background in consumer marketing, PR and advertising; and a deep desire to help others, Kim created the AboutFace remote. It is a result of her frustration and sadness in watching her mother lose her ability to do something as simple as turn on the television for herself, and her desire to help her mother have a successful, happy quality of life.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout Face Technologies, LLC is focused on providing simple \u0026amp; intuitive assistive technology products for those needing simplicity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe AboutFace  remote is an easy-to-use combination television and cable box remote control with limited functions for those that have trouble with, or do not need, all of the functions available on a standard remote. About Face Technologies was a finalist in the 2008 Silicon Valley Boomer Business Summit at Santa Clara University. Hear Kim explain how dementia drove design.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 17th from 9 to 10:30AM in Room 207 in the Health Systems Institute (HSI) Building, located at 828 West Peachtree Street, NW 2nd Floor Atlanta, GA 30332.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A DATHA meeting is scheduled for Wednesday March 17th from 9 to 10:30AM at Room 207 in the Health Systems Institute (HSI) Building, located at 828 West Peachtree Street, NW 2nd Floor Atlanta, GA 30332.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Designer and Entrepreneur to discuss assistive tech"}],"uid":"27202","created_gmt":"2010-05-20 11:44:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:51:25","author":"David Morton","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-03-17T10:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-03-17T11:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-03-17T11:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-03-17 14:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-03-17 15:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-03-17 15:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1233","name":"CATEA - Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4369","name":"assistive technology"},{"id":"9401","name":"catea events"},{"id":"9402","name":"Kim McRae"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Morton\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECATEA, College of Architecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=dm257\u0022\u003EContact David Morton\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-0871\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}