Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A decade from now, the oldest baby boomers will be 86. Asked this question, what categories of need might be addressed? category tags: robotics , Family caregivers , Home Care. Context matters: consider the likely status of people in 10 years. It makes you think. Asked this question recently and pondered.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

What Parks titles ‘The Senior Assistive Solution Spectrum’ includes non-tech categories, including home accessibility improvements, DME products like wheelchairs, ramps, shower seats, as well as medication tracking. Consider whether those four categories are AgeTech or ‘assistive solutions.’ Tech for quality of life – aging or not?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a category, like scribes, that seems obvious when you think about the current healthcare labor shortage and a frail aging patient population. For the wellbeing future of aging baby boomers and their families, there is no choice. Consider the telehealth-enabled virtual patient sitter.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Add the baby boomer population growth – all will pass 65 in just 7 more years -- in conjunction with a shortage of workers able and willing to help them. category tags: Home Care , home health care , senior living , AI and machine learning Demand and costs are up, and availability of workers is down.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2024

All baby boomers (born 1946-1964) will be aged 65 by 2030. Still valid -– advice from experts on how not to succeed in a murky market. category tags: seniors and aging policy , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones Oh, and the population.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

category tags: fall prevention, fall detection , AgeTech , baby boomers. Several have said that the brains of these innovations, however, should initiate ‘ at the edge’ -- that is, closest to where the care recipient actually is, not in the cloud.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 17, 2022

category tags: hearables/hearing technology , hearing loss , baby boomers. Figure 1 Percentage of adults 45+ who used a hearing aid 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . Figure 2 Percentage of adults 45+ with difficulty hearing even when using a hearing aid 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 14, 2019

The baby boomer generation’s later years will be unprecedented. The boomers, turning 65 at a rate of 10,000 a day, are pushing and prodding assumptions, deadlines, and pundit predictions. Consider signals from today's older adults that will only become more pronounced as the boomers move past today's upper age of 73.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

There are simply not enough workers to care for the aging boomers and beyond. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , baby boomers , senior living. This type of tech had obvious benefits, even then, but today, what was obvious then has become a crisis of care today. Learn more.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The boomer-and-beyond market has caught the eye of the tech industry. As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. New announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. Also on the Argentum site is a product category listing. Read more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2018

From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal – pops up a dramatic headline, The Loneliest Generation , describing how baby boomer Americans, more than ever, are aging alone. Okay, let’s remind ourselves that baby boomers make up the population ranging in birth year from 1946-1964. of the silent generation, born before 1946.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the so-called digital health technology categories. . With the aging of baby boomers, newer offerings like Support.com (any connected device) will tailor messages to reach an older adult audience.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

As 2022 begins, the oldest baby boomer turns 76. Because of the sheer size of the older adult market, and the wealth of baby boomers, vendors increasingly see them as constituents for new offerings. As the population aged 65+ exceed 54 million, trends emerge. Smart displays and voice first interfaces will be ubiquitous.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

What these individuals were not, however, is socially isolated, as many of today’s boomers may be. A conundrum – will less healthy baby boomers be among the centenarians? Baby boomers may have a longer life expectancy at 65 than their parents – most likely due to availability of more sophisticated health care and medications.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This is the tenth anniversary of the launch of this Market Overview of technology for ‘Aging in Place’, to be published in March 2019 – the category of offerings that help enable older adults to remain longer in their home of choice. billion by 2022 -- the year the oldest baby boomer turns 76. What a difference a decade makes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

RockHealth, the “first venture fund dedicated to digital health”, has declared this year a turning point in the market of offerings for older adults (aka baby boomers, particularly those 65+). category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Family caregivers. Learn more at TomorrowHealth.

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JULY 11, 2023

See future -- by 2030 all baby boomers will be 65+. See latest report, The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 ] category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It’s a new year and the baby boomers turn 75. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , computers, internet and social networking. Time for the Market Overview Technology for Aging 2021. Issues have often been noted which act as as barriers to accessing services like telehealth for example. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2022

category tags: assistive technologies , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , baby boomers , Television/Smart TV. Eventually we may discover that voice interfaces will replace the other methods of interactions, including accessibility settings and beyond.

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MARCH 10, 2022

And the shortages in home care , home healthcare , skilled nursing facilities and senior living are juxtaposed with an overall labor shortage, just as the oldest baby boomer has turned 76 and has significant remaining life expectancy. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care. That is a sign.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Meanwhile, The older adult technology market is still comprised of four main categories , into which the new entrants and inventions, including wearables, sensors, AI, and predictive analytics, will fit. The boomers, turning 65 at a rate of 10,000 a day, are pushing and prodding assumptions, deadlines, and pundit predictions.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

For older adults, that included the following potentially obsolete categories: Medical alert devices (fall detectors, communicators, etc.), category tags: smartphones , smart home , AI and machine learning , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , fall prevention, fall detection. fire alarms, some smart watches, E-readers, and GPS trackers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

Home care work (or personal care aide) has been one of the fastest growing job categories in the US, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but pay to the worker averages around $11/hour for the worker. On average, home care fills a care gap of 20-27 hours per week at a presumed lower cost ($20.50/hour

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

But how will this category be applied in the older adult marketplace, either directly or for those who serve them? Note: Please see the 2023 updated Market Overview Technology for Aging ] category tags: Generative AI , aging in place , AgeTech , baby boomers , AI and machine learning

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APRIL 6, 2022

Note the top trends that matter this Many changes underway in the enabling tech categories for older adults – including the importance of tech for home care agencies – not just the apps for the workers, but for care recipients, such as remote monitoring. Isn’t March a l-o-n-g month? So many weeks, so many blog posts to, uh, post.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Consider the baby boomer population growth. Report is published -- read it here ] category tags: caregivers , healthcare , tech-enabled home care , home health care , senior living Pressure is growing in senior living to ‘keep people well’ in conjunction with a higher level of acuity of care needs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

In 2022, the oldest baby boomer turns 76, while the population aged 65+ will exceed 54 million. Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

But how will this category be applied in the older adult marketplace, either for them directly or for those who serve them? Note: Please see the 2023 updated Market Overview Technology for Aging ] category tags: Generative AI , aging in place , AgeTech , baby boomers Which means it will become very useful.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Another study noted that the average family caregiver is a baby boomer woman. Click here to for the Technology for Aging 2023 Market Overview category tags: Family caregivers , seniors and aging policy

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The boomer-and-beyond market has caught the eye of the tech industry. As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. New announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. Also on the Argentum site is a product category listing. Read more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A decade from now, the oldest baby boomers will be 86. Yet a new study just published noted that 91% of baby boomers felt overwhelmed by technology, with computers being the most daunting device. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , robotics , Home Care , home health care , senior living , SNF.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As 2022 begins, the oldest baby boomer turns 76. Because of the sheer size of the older adult market, and the wealth of baby boomers, vendors increasingly see them as constituents for new offerings. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

So how will the paid caregiver gap be closed as the baby boomers age into the 80+ age range, only four years away from the oldest baby boomer, now 76? category tags: Home Care , Family caregivers. Those with chronic diseases have a higher incidence of disability in activities of daily living (ADLs).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2018

The first five are finalists in the 2018 Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit Business Plan competition. category tags: baby boomers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , Family caregivers , VR/AR technology , voice/AI technology. Two sets of pitches, ten finalists across the competitions. Ohmni Robot.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2019

The field is growing , no doubt in parallel to the aging baby boomer population, but it is a very small field that is projected to produce only 3100 new jobs by 2026. category tags: hearing loss , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging , seniors and aging policy. They’ are audiologists.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In fact, older adults have often been ignored by marketers even as boomers have all the money. category tags: baby boomers , digital health , telehealth , social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. Here are four blog posts from November: Filling in the Tech Basics. Read more. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 1, 2019

Finally, will we read the same lament in 10 years about the large population of now-aged boomers who cannot afford assisted living? category tags: senior living , baby boomers. Where to recruit this low-paid workforce in a high employment time, competing with wage levels of Walmart and McDonald’s? Count on it.

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