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relative to others of the same age. This information may be useful in your current or future medical care.

See the WSU “Smart Home” and learn about aging technologies.

Other Related Projects Turn your home into a smart home by installing wireless sensors and contribute information that could allow future generations of older adults to maintain independent living through the development of automated health assessment and automated interventions to assist with daily activities.

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WSU researchers use technology to help promote independent living

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t age 85, Mae Durland expected to feel intimidated by the computer and 17 sensors installed in her apartment for the Washington State University “smart homes” research project.

Instead, Durland says, she barely notices them, and doesn’t feel intimidated by them at all.

“The computer sits in the corner on the floor, and I don’t have anything to do with it. I don’t even bother dusting it.” Beyond that, she says, she feels she’s contributing and now knows what she’s “here for.”

Durland, who lives at Horizon House, a retirement community in Seattle, is participating in one of several studies currently being conducted by a partnership between the WSU department of psychology and the school of electrical engineering and computer science, led by professors Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe and Diane Cook.

Schmitter-Edgecombe is a clinical neuropsychologist studying brain changes due to aging and injury, and Cook is a computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and “smart” computer software. The purpose of the studies is to learn more about the relationship between cognition

and every-day functioning, and to develop technologies that will help allow people to continue living independently at home.

The sensors installed in Durland’s apartment, and in the apartments of approximately 28 other residents of Horizon House, are movement-activated and reveal her typical patterns of daily living.

The sensors are not cameras; a sensor installed, for example, on the kitchen or living room ceiling simply registers when the resident moves into close range.

“The data that the computer scientists work with is ‘this sensor went on, this sensor went off.’

They don’t watch what’s happening on video,” Schmitter-Edgecombe explains.

“We’re trying to do this in the least obtrusive way, and trying to pick up when something goes awry, or when someone doesn’t do something they normally do or they’re doing something different or doing things more slowly.”

While such changes may indicate a problem, such as side effects from medication, Schmitter-Edgecombe notes that “there’s a natural history of change that occurs in how we function in our every-day environments as we age. The data may help us better understand the transition to mild cognitive impairment or dementia so that we can develop better technologies for

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Ultimately Schmitter-Edgecombe says her team wants to be able to provide interventions that can help when help is warranted, and to develop algorithms that can “pick up difficulties in real time for notification.”

For example, she says, “a person might have trouble initiating things such as taking a shower or grooming. We are working on prompting technologies that can help them initiate these tasks with reminders. There’s still a lot we need to learn and do to get to that point.”

The tough thing for computer scientists, she says, is picking up on subtle changes. So, twice a year the people living in smart homes are given neuropsychological tests in areas such as mobility, learning, and other aspects of cognition such as attention and memory.

They also get called for a monthly health interview.

Diane Cook and the computer science students on the team are working to develop software that can interpret sensor data to distinguish what activities people are doing, such as eating or cooking.

The computer uses “machine learning techniques,” Cook explains, whereby it “gets better at interpreting data by being taught, through practice.”

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Kylee McWilliams, left, and Christa Simon demonstrate the software and monitoring systems they use at “the Smart House.”

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4 | Weekend, August 24 & 25, 2013 | MOSCOWPULLMAN DAILY NEWS Currently the WSU research team is seeking 150-200 adults over the age of 50 — both healthy adults and those who are experiencing cognitive difficulties — to have sensors installed in their homes or to participate in testing at the “smart home lab” on the WSU campus.

The on-campus study involves completing cognitive tests and doing a series of tasks (such as cooking oatmeal and watering plants) in the smart home lab.

Participants in this study also have the option to wear an actigraph for a week, a watchband-like device that monitors sleep/wake cycles and level of activity.

One benefit to participation, Schmitter-Edgecombe says, is that volunteers undergo neuropsychological testing, which could otherwise be costly.

“It can be very helpful medically for people to have this baseline data,” she says, and there is no cost to participants.

Colfax residents Jolie Haug, 74, and her husband, Peter Haug,

77, have both participated in the cognitive tests and completed testing in the smart home on campus twice, as well as wearing the actigraph, which Jolie says she barely noticed.

The couple had lived in China for 11 years teaching English, and “started to wonder how we were doing” when they returned home and no longer had the constant feedback from students, says Peter.

Both found the testing process and the reports they subsequently got back highly reassuring, particularly since they each had relatives who developed a form of dementia in old age.

Beyond the personal reassurance, though, they “felt that we were being of service. I would strongly encourage more people to participate,” says Peter.

Jolie adds, “People whose minds are not as sharp as they have been—if we can help them stay in their homes longer, that’s great.”

Likewise, for Mae Durland, taking the cognitive tests every

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six months as part of the in-home study involves “owning up to myself that things do change, and it’s good to know. It helps me be truthful to myself.”

As for her overall experience with the smart home study, Durland says, “If I can help anybody

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Judy Sobeloff is a freelance writer and teaching artist who lives with her family in Moscow. She is grateful to Bill London for encouraging her to write for the Daily News.

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(Above) Numerous motion sensors attached to the ceiling at “the Smart House.”

(Below) Jennifer Walker points to one of the sensors in a hallway.

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Walk to End Alzheimer’s returns to the Palouse

By Erik Fink for Palouse Seniors

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he Walk to End Alzheimer’s returns to the Palouse next month, and event organizers hope it will attract 250 people and raise $15,000 to be used predominantly for the care and support of families coping with Alzheimer’s Disease.

This year’s walk is scheduled for Sept. 19 and starts at Toyota of Pullman along the BillChipman Palouse Trail.

Nationwide last year, there were 642 walks which raised $51.8 million for Alzheimer’s care and research, with 364,000 people making up 40,000 teams participated in the events.

Alzheimer’s disease, according to the Alzheimer’s Association, is the most common form of dementia, a general term for memory loss and other intellectual abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life.

Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 50 to 80 percent of dementia cases.

Joel Loiacono, executive director of the Alzheimer’s Association Inland Northwest Chapter, said the majority of the money raised in the walk events go to Alzheimer’s services like support groups, education and a 24-hour Alzheimer’s Association help line. He said about 30 percent of the funds will go to research.

“The help line helps connect people to local services,” Loiacono said. “Many times people will call us and say ‘I don’t know what to ask because I don’t know what the question is.’ So essentially what they are asking what the first step is.”

Loiacano said association services are free for users, and money raised through events allow services to remain free.

Jan Ahles, community relations

director at the Good Samaritan Society in Moscow, said this event is huge for Good Sam staff and residents. She said every resident in the facility suffers from some kind of dementia.

“If they work on finding a cure to Alzheimer’s, it is only going to help the whole dementia umbrella,” Ahles said.

Ahles said the Good Sam team started walking for the event

it allows the residents who won’t be able to participate in the actual event to still be a part of it in some way.

Research into Alzheimer’s is continuing to make great breakthroughs, Loiacono said.

He said the progress made in several months ago, and has already the past 4-5 years is more than the previous 30 years logged a over 350 miles. She said there is an area marked around the put together.

Although there still isn’t a cure, building that staff and residents he is encouraged by the recent can walk. Ahles said by doing this

advancements.

Locally, Washington State University researcher Maureen Schmitter-Edgcomb is conducting trials on devices designed to help keep people with mild cognitive impairments and those in early stages of Alzheimer’s living at home.

The Alzheimer’s Association gave $300,000 to help fund the research, Loiacano said.

Information on the local Walk to End Alzheimer’s – how you can walk, donate or volunteer – can be found at www.alz.org.

Erik Fink was a summer intern at the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

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Blooming where she’s planted Palouse’s Mary Estes keeps her little corner of the world well-tended

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Loren and Mary Estes sit by a sculpture and fountain in the front yard of their home in Palouse.

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ary Estes inherited a large brass teapot and decided plant a flower in it. Now she has dozens of teapots, filled with flowers, scattered across Middle Earth, elements and gnome garden, the names of sections in her immense backyard.

“It’s just one of those things that groove,” Estes, 64, said.

She retired in 2007 from Washington State University and has dedicated her life to her garden and the Palouse city community, where she lives. Estes took classes in 2008 from the University of

“It’s just one of those things that groove ... I like things to bloom for me – work for me.”

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Mary has grown her collection of teapots by receiving them as gifts and finding them in thrift and antique shops.

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An arrangement of teapots is surrounded by hostas in a garden outside the home of Loren and Mary Estes is Palouse.

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Estes said she primarily plants annual flowers in the teapots. Those plants tend to die when winter arrives and so she starts anew each spring. “Sometimes its fun to change things up� and its always easy to find plants for the teapots, she said. “I like things to bloom for me – work for me,� Estes said as she surveyed her garden from her back porch, which features an interwoven wall of concord grape vines along the railing. The vines hide the porch from prying eyes on the street below, she said.

Estes discovered three passions in life at her childhood home in Browns Point, Wash. Those passions were sailing, horseback riding and making plants grow.

She said there are no sailing waters on the Palouse and her husband doesn’t like horses, so after she retired she chose to devote her time to gardening. “Mostly I just love all kinds of

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Rachel Rausch, the office and program coordinator at the Latah County UI Extension Office, said Estes is one of the longest volunteers in the master gardener program. “She’s just so easy to work with because she’s so outgoing and really enjoys what she’s doing,� Rausch said.

Rausch has stopped to tour Mary’s garden on her way to Spokane. She said Estes is always welcoming and loves to give tours to passers-by. “It’s just nice that somebodies so open that they’ll share their beautiful gardens with others,� Rausch said.

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Max relaxes in a garden at the home of Loren and Mary Estes. roses� but her favorite is opening midnight, which can be seen in its own bed in her front yard, she said.

Rose beds are almost as abundant as her teapot collection in the garden, which plumes out from the backyard to feature roses along the side of the Estes home and in her front yard.

Loren, a carpenter, made a sign to hang upon the gate leading to

the backyard that says “Welcome to Mary’s Garden.�

Loren aids his wife by watering the Kentucky blue/rye grass on their property, mowing the grass and digging holes for his wife to place plants into.

While the garden keeps Estes occupied in the spring and summer months, she volunteers and takes courses from the UI Extension Of-

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Create old-school stationery with chalkboard paint Holly Ramer Associated Press

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y classroom days are decades behind me, but I still miss the nerdy pleasure of heading back to school each September with new notebooks and folders, color coded by subject of course.

Pretty stationery, however, feels like an acceptable substitute. A stack of blank notecards holds the same promise of a fresh start as school supplies do, especially a set that incorporates old-school elements like chalkboards, vintage maps, notebook paper and brown paper lunch sacks.

Chalkboard art has become a big trend in home decorating, from wall hangings that mimic vintage menu boards to entire walls covered with chalkboard paint. But I decided to seize upon that trend and shrink it down to notecard size. Turning a notecard into a mini-chalkboard is as easy as applying a few coats of spray paint to a piece of cardstock, and the resulting surface can be customized in countless ways.

Make yourself a pile of blank chalkboard cards, and you won’t be limited to the clichéd greetings on store-bought cards — you can personalize them for any occasion.

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Draw a cute cupcake on a birthday card or even a simple smiley face — it’s a chalkboard, not a fine art canvas. A chalk ink marker allows for bolder, smoother lines, but a regular piece of school chalk adds rustic appeal. In either case, if you mess up, you can always erase it and start over! A light spritz with aerosol hairspray will set the chalk enough that it won’t get smudged

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