Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Caregiving and other demands of an aging population gained significant government attention and new initiatives during 2023. So many entrants in the AgeTech, accessibility and health categories seek visibility and possible global reach. Five trends that matter for older adults and caregivers in 2024 and beyond.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

And caregiving sons , in particular, are struggling with caring for their aging parents. category tags: healthcare , home health care , Home Care , tech-enabled home care Coordinating one’s own or family member care is ‘overwhelming.’

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Home Care Magazine provided details about the just-announced Dementia Care policy changes, called the GUIDE Model , including care coordination services, support and payment to family caregivers to help keep care recipients out of nursing homes, and respite help. We bring this technology to caregivers through an easy-to-use app.

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JULY 21, 2023

Examples: Some believe family caregivers are a standalone entity that does not use care services. Reality check: Family caregivers may hire home care services. Family First partners with employers and insurers to make its service available to people juggling work and caregiving. Learn more at FamilyFirst.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 2020, a modest category became mainstream. It took the aging of the baby boomers and the sheer size of the aging population to turn a 2009 market niche into a 2020 major market category. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The categories span Caregiving, FemTech, Health, Mobility, Savings & Planning, and Social Connections. category tags: AgeTech , vision and vision technology , robotics , fall prevention, fall detection Startups – in a sense. Learn more at RightHear.

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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 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. . Caregiver shortages boost in-home monitoring. Fifty-three million Americans are providing care to someone with health or functional needs – in short, they are family caregivers.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Future growth of that category may slow due to market saturation or possible innovation cutbacks from vendors like Amazon and Google. But the pivotal entrance of Apple’s fall detection legitimized the market for caregiving smart watch wearables with fall detection. Technology solutions augment care – not replacing family or support.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Older adults and caregivers are served by a number of offerings and events. Together is an AI-driven health assistant designed to make health management seamless for aging Americans and their caregivers. category tags: AI and machine learning , Scams -- all types , senior living , AgeTech Events are ahead like Aging 2.0

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JUNE 7, 2022

The vision: Change the work process to produce Engaged Caregivers, a Connected Care Team, and Informed Families. A different story from the parent, the Caregiver and the agency. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care. Imagine what's possible when every stakeholder wins." Why does this matter now?

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

By passively moni t oring movement patterns via thermal sensors, Butlr Care can alert caregivers when seniors need assistance. CareYaya employs student caregivers from top universities like the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Harvard, Duke, and many others." Learn more. Learn more.

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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. Voice first technology – in everything.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Maybe there will be new remote monitoring technologies, proliferation of software – the AI Caregiver as one example – to help. We’re still (mostly) talking about tech in the home to help family caregivers. category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living In what year?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Search for the term ‘caregiving technology’. Over at AARP, there is a long list of resources (non-tech) on the AARP caregiving site. There’s the 2017 AARP report that surveys caregivers about what they want from technology they are interested in but not currently using. The biggest list is also from AARP – but is it too big?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

when applied to the aging population, to allow family members, doctors, and caregivers to proactively monitor the health and well-being of the world’s aging population." The future Internet of AI-enabled Caregiving is mandatory. category tags: Generative AI , AI and machine learning , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , AgeTech

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

The AI caregiver, like other uses of AI, will become a 24x7 reality. category tags: Home Care , home health care , senior living , AI and machine learning Non-pharmacological interventions are offered to help with dementia care via TapRoot.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

Healthcare workers are nervous, professional caregivers think it’s too early. It is a space that benefits greatly from the AI’s inherent capability to learn from accumulated data, combined with its ability to predict possibilities based on that data, informing caregivers, families, and other stakeholders.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

What about SensorsCall – that can send a caregiver a clip of a loud sound. category tags: fall prevention, fall detection , AgeTech , baby boomers. Or Vayyar Care , touchless fall detection, or SafelyYou , recording the image and possible cause of the fall. . The innovators know that a crisis is ahead.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

On the other hand, McMaster researchers see the possibilities in the use of remote monitoring, wearables, alarms and alerts systems, and family caregiver technology support. 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

MARCH 30, 2023

As integrated, ChatGPT, an AI-powered conversational platform, is used to enhance the caregiving experience for nurses and residents. Also, if you missed it, here is the 2023 Market Overview Technology for Aging category tags: AI and machine learning , Generative AI , healthcare , senior living

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The concept of an AI Caregiver to augment limited staffing took on new significance as the crisis in care work worsened throughout the year. RubyWell. " If you help a loved one stay safe and healthy, you're a family caregiver. New product announcements, incubators/accelerators , government grants (see NIA ) seem to be multiplying.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 19, 2023

In this report, we use the term Voice First to identify this emerging category of voice-controlled devices, applications or services. Older adults, caregivers, and service providers quickly recognized the power of Voice First and the advantages that voice-driven applications have over both desktop and mobile versions.

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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. Cambia Health released a survey of caregivers, 64% of surveyed caregivers use at least one digital tool to help them with caregiving. And then came disaster. The smarter home of older adults must help fill care gaps.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2019

Imagine three overlapping ovals – a Venn diagram of markets – Active Aging , Caregiving , Digital Health – why is it that VCs mostly look the other way when anything with the word ‘aging’ surfaces, but jump ( possibly mistakenly ) when these other categories are mentioned? So what’s odd about a Venn diagram?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2020, focus sharpens on technology market categories of aging and caregiving. This past week, Cambia Health released a survey of caregivers, 64% of surveyed caregivers use at least one digital tool to help them with caregiving. What other changes matter for this market?

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Caregiving and other demands of an aging population are gaining attention. Another study noted that the average family caregiver is a baby boomer woman. Notable at the end of 2022, the Administration for Community Living published the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Tech Categories. Caregiving and Family Support. Tech Categories. Or a family member may need to hire a round-the-clock caregiver to help their loved one with meals, showers, dressing and other routines. Tech Categories. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline. Needs of the Early stage.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

What will be the year that an uptick in usage for smart speakers and voice assistants turn them into commodity concepts, embedded in devices, expected in homes at miniscule price points, but not actually a standalone category at all? 2020 is that year – when a category is subsumed into technology ecosystems.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Here are five companies drawn from the report and beyond – all material is from the company websites: eCaring. “ Modernizing home care -- Behind eCaring is a team that cares a lot about caregiving. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , social isolation , Learning, working, contribution and legacy.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But all that is just a beginning – early January brings the Consumer Electronics Show and many more innovations that can help older adults with health, mobility, cognitive issues, and caregiving. Caregiving technology trends. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , vehicle/transportation technology-services.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In fact , family caregivers may be increasingly likely be paid for the care they provide. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , tech-enabled home care , Family caregivers. The shortage is keeping people in the hospital for longer than their health status warrants. Can sensors also have an impact on staffing challenges?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

The show is over, the press dispersed, the awards won. CES 2024 is over, with 135,000 attendees, and AI as the story of the show , and according to AARP, offering the promise of better aging and even helping to fix the caregiving crisis. category tags: AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline , robotics , hearables/hearing technology

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AUGUST 6, 2020

In early 2020, focus sharpened on market categories of aging and caregiving. Cambia Health released a survey of caregivers, 64% of surveyed caregivers use at least one digital tool to help them with caregiving. AARP published a new report that showed growing interest in technology among those aged 70+.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention got their hands on the definition -- aging in place as "the ability to live in one's own home and community safely, independently, and comfortably, regardless of age, income, or ability level." That enabled adding four categories of useful technology, copied from a Market Overview. Rant off. .

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JULY 6, 2022

There seems to be a growing number of tech offerings that can see, sense, detect, and learn about behavioral patterns as part of new tools for older adults and their caregivers. Meet Caregivers. Are you starting to notice a pattern, so to speak? Learn more. Quil Assure and PeoplePower. "

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MARCH 24, 2020

Previously limited categories expand to span multiple remote care services. category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health. Senior living companies are readying telehealth services (see Holiday Retirement ) and no doubt more will follow. But what about remote engagement technologies? If not now, when?

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