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

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The cost of senior living care at $54,000/year over any length of time is staggering, pushing move-in ages out to 84. The move to senior living is a move of desperation for many families, given that their loved one is likely to have dementia and needs more care. What it means – a tech opportunity. Check it out. million 27.2 million 33.3

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Based on conversations with executives for a new research report about sensors, some organizations see today’s labor shortage in senior care as a catalyst for deploying technology. Tech companies that serve senior care organizations certainly see the need for tech change. category tags: AgeTech , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

million in senior living communities, including nursing homes. Some senior living providers have been ahead of the game for some time with telehealth, like Asbury Communities and Holiday Retirement -- offering services for residents at times when physicians cannot be on site. This applies to caring for and treating the 2.5

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2024

The purpose of the document, however, is to aggregate and review trends from 2023 that shape 2024, technology changes that matter, and offer, by category, a sampling of products, services, and sites of relevance to the older adult market.

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APRIL 10, 2024

With the boom in scam innovation , government initiatives and new tech emerges regularly to stop or eliminate scamming of seniors. category tags: Home Care , smart home , aging in place , AgeTech , baby boomers Insurers offer discounts for smart home and some Medicare Advantage plans cover devices for safety and wellness.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 19, 2023

For too many years, high quality data about care of seniors has been elusive. Lack of standardization of technology platforms – or lack of care platforms altogether – hobbled the care industries -- senior living, home care, home healthcare. The home and senior care industries have long needed standard apps and underlying data.

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APRIL 12, 2023

Sunrise Senior Living’s chatbot offers a list of choices -- ‘find care for myself’ or ‘browsing options for senior living’ -- all of which could lead to an answer that does not require a phone call or further searching. Carlton Senior Living’s chatbot named Ana offers a similar list of search options, including scheduling a visit.

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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. Companies like Carlton Senior Living offload staff informational tasks to chatbots, freeing staff for other work. category tags: Home Care , home health care , senior living , AI and machine learning

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Can AI be useful in the older adult markets of home care, senior living and beyond? Sites are emerging that aggregate and update ChatGPT prompts by category. In other wrap-up non-surprises, entrepreneurs are shifting to the enterprise for funding, or that the digital health user experience is key to senior uptake. Stay tuned.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

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. And this updated information will ideally be available to other medical providers, not to mention senior and home health care companies that will soon see the discharged patient.

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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

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. Lack of interfaces to senior and health care systems.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

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.’ Drawing the AgeTech line.

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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. . They will have widespread use in independent and senior living, since many older adults will bring them along at move-in time. It’s not just seniors who need help.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 29, 2023

Perhaps the Medicare scam call reaches someone in a senior living community who is obviously Medicare-eligible. category tags: smartphones, cellphones , seniors and aging policy , Seniors Pick up, have a conversation, no matter with what or whom. Consider that 44% of women aged 75+ live alone.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

The federal “Money Follows the Person” was introduced in 2005 to enable seniors to avoid them and receive Medicaid-paid services. Or was it the senior living industry that seized their business? Seniors and families need them? category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , aging in place , seniors and aging policy

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So far, companies that could help protect seniors don’t or won’t. Or is it that they really don’t see ANY way to stop them, so they partner with ‘Robocall’ killer software companies – helping to grow that category? category tags: Scams -- all types , social media , computers, broadband, and social networking , AgeTech

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JUNE 16, 2022

The chances that both categories will draw from the same labor pool seem unlikely. The PHI analysis also looks at the demographics of aides who work in nursing homes, residential care (aka senior living) and home care – noting the biggest labor growth projection (and likely shortfall) in home care aides.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

What hasn’t changed much – tech deployment in senior care. 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." Given the staffing crisis in long-term care , maybe technology’s time has come. .

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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% in August 2020.

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JUNE 21, 2022

Use cases have proven valuable for seniors. The future: Broadband, voice, and AI are mission critical for senior living. The senior living industry is challenged in 2022 to ramp up occupancy back to its pre-pandemic levels. Today 95 million US adults have smart speakers and 85% of US adults own a smartphone.

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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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MARCH 30, 2023

AI is more established in marketing , even in senior-related businesses. Botco’s chatbot technology has been deployed at Carlton Senior Living. 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

AUGUST 2, 2023

" RAZ Mobility is a provider of mobile assistive technology, released a major update to the RAZ Memory Cell Phone that adds video calling capability, and other features, that significantly enhance the device for both seniors and caregivers. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , AgeTech , smartphones, cellphones

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

Or that home care a parallel universe to senior living. Or they move loved ones to senior living. Senior living companies (and families) augment limited staff with home care workers. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , senior living , Family caregivers , AgeTech Learn more at care.ai

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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. Technology solutions augment care – not replacing family or support. The 2023 versions of voice-first interfaces on smart speakers are no longer ground-breaking – 35% of Americans now own one.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Senior living – unless a very expensive house is sold – is not within reach. category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living Housing alternatives (like cohousing or multi-generational housing) would be well publicized and on the way to broad adoption. In what year?

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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+. Why survey senior living and home care firms about client technology adoption?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Meanwhile, the labor shortage has impacted every aspect of senior care, requiring a rethink of financial health of the businesses and the role of technology. 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.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

Staffing issues continue to plague senior care organizations. Here are three categories that can help optimize staff and improve care: Voice-enabled services. category tags: wearables, smart watch , wearables , IoT and home monitoring , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health.

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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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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. These include senior housing, skilled nursing facilities, home care, home healthcare, or healthcare providers.

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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. Thoughts welcome.

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MARCH 7, 2024

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. Chatbots may be forging a new path to assisting as needed -- but the jury is still out as to whether that replaces live training.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The numbers of care recipients in home care, senior living, and adult day services has likely crossed 5 million people by now. The number of home care providers is exploding due to demand, much of it from people who should be in senior living or nursing homes but they (or their families) are too stubborn to make the move.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

For older adults, that included the following potentially obsolete categories: Medical alert devices (fall detectors, communicators, etc.), AI Everywhere, including in senior care. Possibly the biggest change yet to be fully realized may be the advent of embedding AI in senior-focused technology.

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