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Will robots help us in our homes – now and within 10 years?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Maybe Amazon’s ownership will improve upon its music-playing trip hazard, the Astro robot. Asked this question, what categories of need might be addressed? category tags: robotics , Family caregivers , Home Care. Consider Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot - can you say ‘ Voice control’ for kitchen floor washing?

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Tech for quality of (an aging) life

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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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Technology to help care for individuals with dementia

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Finally, families may want to focus on maintaining their loved one's quality of life at home, introducing smart speakers to play music at scheduled times, or even storytelling technology to help their loved one talk about themselves and their lives, which can be a comfort. Tech Categories. Tech Categories. Tech Categories.

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What’s next with Voice tech and seniors?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

You expect these offerings to play music, set a timer, answer a question accurately, or to shut up when we say. 2020 is that year – when a category is subsumed into technology ecosystems. Music and recipes, how nice. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Aging, ageism.

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Voice and AI – Better Together for Older Adults – New Report

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New features will be offered based on utilization of existing capabilities (music, recipes, trips, books, advice). category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , computers, broadband, and social networking , senior living. Recommendations based on the history of a user’s conversations will be accepted and standard.

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Five Offerings from the RockHealth Aging in Place Report

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FlintRehab Music Glove. MusicGlove works by motivating users to perform hundreds of therapeutic hand and finger exercises while playing an engaging musical game. Then, follow along and make the appropriate pinching movements when each musical note floats down the screen." Learn more at CareTribe. Learn more at FlintRehab.

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Will technology become standard in nursing homes and senior living communities?

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After that, the caregiving aide speaks a music request to the Echo Dot (or Google Mini) also remotely set up by her family, and Mrs. Smith nods off to sleep. category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , Seniors , senior living , seniors and aging policy , covid-19. If so, please comment.

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