Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 23, 2022

We might learn from the upcoming American Community Survey (ACS) data release which households have broadband connectivity, own a computer or other devices – down to a level of granularity that includes that rarely surveyed category, age 85+. And we may be able to examine age in relationship to tech ownership.

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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. And there are numerous separate focal points for tech for older adults (see Samsung Health House ) and a CTA Foundation Pitch Competition. Today it is just CES 2024 and it is really a B2B(2B2B) event. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 19, 2023

million write off of a failed in-house software deployment process. category tags: senior living , Home Care , home health care , tech-enabled home care Consider Jet Blue’s interest in buying Spirit, getting planes and pilots(infrastructure) that match its current business. Note its 2015 $72.5

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

But other categories of usage and their user groups are coming into focus – consider the multiple examples in senior living during the visitation lockdown. Up next, more experimentation and usage of what is available today and in-house. And for home care – is there a better way to engage and retain the worker ?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

A voice heard in a house of an older person living alone cuts through the silence, even if it is a conversation with a device. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , computers, broadband, and social networking , senior living. The future: Voice assistants will help mitigate growing social isolation of the oldest.

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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.), This could be an enabler for differentiating behaviors among users in senior housing, hospitals and nursing homes. Deadline is December 31, 2022, for Verizon – other carriers already switched.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

So let’s say you have an assistant on your smartphone and a smart speaker in your house. 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?

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

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 27, 2020

These include senior housing, skilled nursing facilities, home care, home healthcare, or healthcare providers. What changes will be wrought in smart home categories – sensors, robotics, predictive analytics that improve remote monitoring and carein a post-Covid world? Thoughts welcome.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In 2018, AARP Foundation began to pilot the Echo devices, including the inexpensive Echo Dot, in low income housing settings. category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Senior-focused groups saw ways devices were used to combat social isolation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Home care of various types now augments and even enhances services that not long ago may have been provided by senior housing. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care. The home care market is (still) a booming business. Home care workers are also among the lowest paying and least trained occupations.

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Nursing 128

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2019

A prior report recommending change in the hearing technology industry may have contributed to or encouraged the sale of PSAPs and the introduction in 2018 sale of over-the-counter hearing aids – and may have encouraged additional categories of hearing aids and the growth of interest in 'hearables.’

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 9, 2021

Has the future arrived in the world of seniors, senior housing, home care? category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants. Has the future arrived for the technologists who invented Voice First and the broad market of consumers who bought and benefited, from the early days?

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Telehealth 158

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

When assembling the 2019 tenth anniversary version, it was apparent that this year reflects change -- in the supply-demand balance in the overbuilt senior housing market, in policy changes driving health care services into the home, in market forecasts, and in the mix of vendors who serve the market.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Senior housing providers, including nursing homes, will incorporate AI to learn about the care recipient before their arrival – helping them to assemble a profile that can support the delivery of just-right care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2023

The story of that invention, particularly the context of an AT&T monopoly of the time period, is instructive about what it takes to get an innovation into the market – when many are involved, including government agencies, and obstacles, in-house and competitors, are all around.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Which she did, until she died after a fall, isolated in her huge house after all her neighbors had died or moved away. And in 2013, it was promoted on the book circuit by former HUD director, Henry Cisneros about his 87-year-old mother – they were both insistent that she ‘age in place.’ The arbitrariness of the term was crazy.

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Telehealth 118

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2020

Perhaps it is (still) because using them is not the intuitive (or 'zero-effort') experience recommended by the 2019 White House Report on technologies for older adults. And will there be a process that follows up on the White House Report to see what, if any, change occurred as a result of its publication?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

These ISPs count a census block as having access even if only one house is enabled! category tags: computers, internet and social networking , social isolation , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health. Oh wait, that is based on data from the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who have a vested interest in the number.

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Telehealth 140

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

million write off of a failed in-house software deployment process. Which she did, until she died after a fall, isolated in her huge house after all her neighbors had died or moved away. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , fall prevention, fall detection , Mobile PERS Note its 2015 $72.5

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Nursing 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2019

A prior report recommending change in the hearing technology industry may have contributed to or encouraged the sale of PSAPs and the introduction in 2018 sale of over-the-counter hearing aids – and may have encouraged additional categories of hearing aids and the growth of interest in 'hearables.’

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Medicare Telehealth 63

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

These issues will only be better understood as senior housing communities are surveyed, and it is possible to figure out what policy or business changes have made a difference. category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , Seniors , senior living , seniors and aging policy , covid-19. If so, please comment.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

Smartphones, with their long lists of accessibility (for iPhone and Android ) features, are a must for anyone who leaves the house, has hearing loss, low vision, gets lost, searches for a pharmacy, needs an ambulance or doesn't believe that dumb Apple ad asserting that the watch does it all.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

It is time to imagine how are these efforts going to be disseminated through a fragmented combination of associations, states, senior housing communities, nursing homes, home care agencies, and to families. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , senior living , Technology - AARP , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Let’s break down telehealth into three categories, and consider as an example public libraries that decide to offer telehealth in its various branches. A telehealth company can schedule a time to come to your house for lab work that they collect and take to the lab on Tuesday. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2023

Use the usual searches for income, marital status, housing status, tech ownership. Here are five current examples, all information was drawn directly from the vendor websites: Read more. category tags: AI and machine learning , Generative AI , computers, broadband, and social networking Don’t believe it?

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Medical Billing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2020

Three times a week, an in-house production team delivers programming directly to residents’ computers or mobile devices as a supplement to the provider’s Covid-19 normal activities schedule. category tags: robotics , Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health , social isolation , covid-19. Learn more at MSN. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Second, Guard Plus will bring deterrence features, for instance triggering Alexa to play a recording of dogs barking if a security camera catches someone sneaking around the back of the house while you're away. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health.

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Telehealth 134

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

Home care of various types now augments and even enhances services that not long ago may have been provided by senior housing. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , healthcare , digital health. The home care market is (still) a booming business opportunity.

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

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Health Technology Digital Health Telehealth Nursing 48

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2019

For older consumers and their families, the technology market and senior housing industry are two cases in point. Or mull over the technology industry, which is releasing new versions of every category faster than you can Google them, filling voids like adding mouse for the iPad. Why did it not have a mouse in the first place?

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Telehealth 71

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 24, 2019

This non-adoption, despite White House reports recommending products be made more appropriate to boost adoption, first in the PCAST report of 2016, and then again in 2019. Consider the White House 2016 and White House 2019 reports on use of technology by older adults. Or they pay for 1-1 sessions.

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Telehealth 96

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 24, 2019

In fact, MobileHelp, one of the first mobile PERS devices, acquired Halo Monitoring in 2012 – a good move for both, especially since by 2012, it was clear that fall detection by itself was not yet a market category hit. Well, by itself, “fall detection” is not yet a market category hit. So where are we today?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Or they live where someone is motivated to help them do so, perhaps a family member, staff in senior housing or a nursing home, or a home health worker. category tags: telehealth , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , healthcare , Seniors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2020

Consumers can also request a virtual house call where a tech expert remotely connects to their device to solve the issue for them. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. Learn more at Global Wireless Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 20, 2021

The “handy” part of its name is for its ability to pick up objects, “becoming an extension of you and helping you with work around the house.” category tags: assistive technologies , robotics , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , vision and vision technology. Samsung Bot Handy can handle dishes after a meal. Learn more at VOY.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

Some see housing opportunities or changes to make age-friendlier communities , and some see looming health costs associated with the 50 million individuals now aged 65+. It was a surprise, though, to see this White House report last week, and even more of a surprise to read what’s in it.

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