Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s easy to say, and it resonates -- especially compared to other long-standing terms like assistive technology, gerontechnology and durable medical equipment (DME). Consider whether those four categories are AgeTech or ‘assistive solutions.’ The rise of AgeTech – it is a trend. Tech for quality of life – aging or not?

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JUNE 21, 2022

Voice assistants made device hardware actually seem smart. Besides these invisible upgrades, the voice assistant technology has been continually improving – and if the user could be made aware of those improvements (a BIG IF), they might find them to be very useful. Today, one-third of adults aged 65+ live alone.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Pressure is growing in senior living to ‘keep people well’ in conjunction with a higher level of acuity of care needs. Tech tools offer training and concierge-like assistance. Companies like Carlton Senior Living offload staff informational tasks to chatbots, freeing staff for other work.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

With so many entrants in the AgeTech, accessibility and health categories seeking visibility and possible global reach. eSight is a wearable assistive technology that allows people living with visual impairments to stay on the go while performing the tasks of daily living. Learn more. Learn more. Orcam Hear. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

But there was also an awakening to the significance of aging in place , the investment category of older adults , the market power of older adults , including the 65+ population of 54 million. In 2020, Voice First category of technologies moved far beyond smart speakers and voice assistants.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SkyPoint Cloud AI Platform for Senior Living. SkyPoint Cloud proudly launches the senior living industry’s first Enterprise AI SaaS product focused on enabling organizations to leverage generative AI to optimize efficiency and productivity. category tags: AI and machine learning , Scams -- all types , senior living , AgeTech

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Future growth of that category may slow due to market saturation or possible innovation cutbacks from vendors like Amazon and Google. Voice assistants and hearing aids. Sixty-two percent of US adults as of January 2023 are using voice assistants on any device (including in-car, in-ear, at-drive-thru). Safety and security.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

The news articles pile up – assisted living and nursing home staffing shortages ; stranding older adults without home health care ; keeping patients in hospitals longer because of lack of care; nursing home staffing crisis ; Medicaid paying family members to provide care , low wages and low unemployment worsen care situation , and on and on.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

According to the 2020 Senior Living, COVID-19 and Technology Survey and Report , over a third of communities reported having poor or nonexistent Wi-Fi and bandwidth capability." category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , SNF , wearables , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The death rates from Covid-19 (or with Covid-19) of seniors in nursing homes and assisted living were horrific on the one hand and daunting to prospective move-ins. million are aged 85+ -- not surprisingly the approximate move-in age to senior living – 1.4 Senior living occupancy dropped to just 79.5% By 2013, The U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The odds are good these days that the 50-65 are still working and can afford where they live. The numbers of care recipients in home care, senior living, and adult day services has likely crossed 5 million people by now. category tags: aging in place , AgeTech , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 10, 2023

From the findings; One of the media-fueled risks today with the plethora of AI-related hype is the tendency to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes, reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. These include: Ethical dilemmas.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The solution offers a new option for senior living communities to improve safety and care while protecting privacy and simplifying daily life for residents and staff. By passively moni t oring movement patterns via thermal sensors, Butlr Care can alert caregivers when seniors need assistance.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2024

Chatbots may be forging a new path for assisting as needed -- but the jury is still out as to whether that replaces live training. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones , Television/Smart TV , wearables, smart watch Imagine an AI-enabled future for tech user experiences.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

Certainly that must be what senior living residents and older adults living at home do, not to mention the of-course sizable tech staff working in senior living and elder care. Some senior living companies during Covid saw the need to help residents with their devices. Enter the tech concierge. How about those aged 65+?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Then there is the cost of 24x7 home care, same as assisted living (which is $67K in Massachusetts, for example) or even Genworth’s 44-hours of home care ($53-54K annual). But families are still in a position of finding and then managing the care workers, even with agency assistance. That may work for the most well-to-do seniors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The chances are good that their family member can remain at home through early stages, even continuing to live alone Even after a diagnosis, they'll continue to wonder whether it really is dementia and look for another test they can do at home. Tech Categories. Activities of daily living. Smartphone assistants.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Voice technology in 2022 – living up to hope and hype? Fairly new at the time, a few senior living organizations embraced it for its home automation potential, possibility of concierge services -- turn on the lights! Are voice assistants useful to those with hearing impairments or stutters (not so much, though some are hopeful )?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2024

Chatbots may be forging a new path to assisting as needed -- but the jury is still out as to whether that replaces live training. category tags: seniors and aging policy , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones Today, users at every age expect it and are disappointed when they cannot figure out what to do next.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In senior living or home care, permission to track this type of information is likely (hopefully) given at the onboarding of a new care recipient or resident. Or they could extend time in a senior living home, prior to moving to a higher level of care. Since January of 2020, 400,000 nursing home and assisted living workers have quit.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Even with wealth, older adults at some point in their lives will need some level of assistance. Tech will assist work in home and home healthcare. You read it every day in the popular press – the bad news about the 65+ and their future care burden and the good news about the 65+ and their wealth (22% of US spending in 2022).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

It took the combination of 71 million boomers, a pandemic emergency, and the sheer size of the aging population to transform a 2009 market niche into this 2021 market category worthy of investment-- less about products specifically designed for older adults as it is about the marketing of many existing offerings as useful to them.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Or CES 2019 , when Google Assistant was everywhere and today, when it appears to be ‘ going down the tubes.’ At Dream Face, we are developing socially assistive robots that ease the workload of caregivers and provide support to aging adults. These assertions have been made before, of course. In tech, nothing is forever, though.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

And the term wandered over briefly to assisted living. From the survey: " My mom was able to live independently in her home until she was 95." Or will they want to move to some sort of senior-living community, average age 84 , with activities and shared meals?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Then there is the cost of 24x7 home care, same as assisted living (which is $67K in Massachusetts, for example) or even Genworth’s 44-hours of home care ($53-54K annual). But families are still in a position of finding and then managing the care workers, even with agency assistance. That may work for the most well-to-do seniors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

Botco’s chatbot technology has been deployed at Carlton Senior Living. Leveraging voice recognition and AI-based technology, the SmartCall virtual assistant proactively calls users, asking a variety of key wellbeing questions to detect situations requiring attention. Learn more at Botco. integrates ChatGPT into its care app. "

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For older adults, that included the following potentially obsolete categories: Medical alert devices (fall detectors, communicators, etc.), Meanwhile, the OTC hearing aids, starting at $199, can be purchased without an audiologist assisting, inside a retail store or online. fire alarms, some smart watches, E-readers, and GPS trackers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 9, 2021

Is this ‘magical’ technology (and its plethora of virtual assistants) in the peak of inflated expectation or has it just come off the peak headed for the trough of disillusionment , just another tech with plenty of current deficiencies and still-unfulfilled promise? Or is Voice First today, per the Gartner hype cycle, just another interface?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 29, 2022

These general contractors for all things aging, certified and trained individuals can help navigate a bewildering world of services (or lack) that are very local – such as transportation, home care, senior living, meal delivery. Do we need to go to Caring.com to find a local assisted living facility that is highly rated ?

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AUGUST 2, 2022

Occupancy in senior living dipped below 80% in 2021, though said now to be in a period of recovery --even as costs to operate and resident prices rise. We know that one of the biggest issues in senior living (and home care, nursing homes, home health care) today is a shortage of labor. Here are the four blog posts from July 2022.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Data is transformed into a common information language that connects people, experiences, and real-time AI Assistant services." With time CareAlert becomes smarter: Depression detection, Medication verification, Recovery measurement, Alzheimer’s assistance." category tags: IoT and home monitoring , baby boomers , senior living.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Some examples are: Remote home monitoring: Elder care robots that can assist nurses and caregivers to focus on the elderly person’s needs 1. Conversational agents and assistive robots: Systems that can provide social interaction, entertainment, or reminders 3. category tags: Generative AI , fall prevention, fall detection

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2023

These will likely help older adults (now 57 million aged 65+) age more successfully in their own homes if they wish, be healthier for longer, find the care that they need, and benefit from such technology-assists to augment in-person care. And just in time. [

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2020

That was then… In early 2020, focus sharpens on market categories of aging and caregiving. The epidemic of nationwide worry at home that horrified families has been particularly damaging for older adults, especially the oldest, peering out of windows of nursing homes and senior living apartments at family members clustered outside.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Despite the best efforts of industry leadership and management, the gap between the numbers of patients and families seeking assistance and the availability of workers to provide that care is accelerating at an unsustainable pace. Real-time alerts can be sent to caregivers or emergency services, ensuring timely assistance.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Many of the offerings now include voice interfaces and some have introduced AI features to collect behavior data about the wearer which Gartner refers to a category adjacent to Internet of Things (IoT) which it calls the Internet of Behavior (IoB). Do tech and service vendors, senior living firms, families and older adults see the potential?

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