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. And today you can see AARP’s focus in its website AARP Voice. category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 12, 2022

Leading older adult advocates, including the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and AARP, may imagine that there is trouble ahead. That has been done, though the recipients commenting on the AARP website following one of its articles on the topic may not be pleased at any aspect of a forced transition. What, should people worry?

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MARCH 22, 2023

Likely adoption by the 65+ population has far exceeded the 61% percent in the 2022 Pew survey or the most recent AARP Tech Trends survey. AARP offers tips and tricks for both iPhone and Android phones. Smartphone use among older adults is growing – is usability the next hurdle? Why on earth?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Also in 2023, AARP updated its report, Valuing the Invaluable: Strengthening Supports for Family Caregivers. category tags: caregivers , Family caregivers , Home Care , computers, broadband, and social networking This included caregivers of children, the elderly and the disabled. Dementia care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

AARP sponsored an entire large area for its AgeTech Summit – talks and displays of new tech for an older adult market, cataloguing participants in an online directory. category tags: AI and machine learning , AgeTech , IoT , Technology - AARP 10 new offerings from CES 2023. Read the report.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Or will they believe the hype and AARP checklists about aging in place ? Will older adults be able to sell their homes and afford to move at an earlier age -- when they might enjoy the company of others and depend less on driving their own cars ? Should the decision really be about considering the cost of home modification?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2022

The growth has been tracked most recently in survey samples that compared the most recent with prior time periods: AARP surveyed 2063 and Pew Research surveyed 1502 adults. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking. We are used to citing population surveys to cite trends. Attachment Size.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 17, 2020

Technology Adoption -- AARP. The AARP Research survey of older adults was completed in 2019, published in early 2020. According to AARP 38% of the 70+ do not have smartphones. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , senior living , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2024

A few organizations at these events, like AARP (VIVE) and Best Buy Health (HIMSS), clearly have a vested interest in the health status and care of aging adults. See 2024 update Market Overview Technology for Aging ] category tags: digital health , healthcare , AgeTech , Aging, ageism

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2023

And finally, there’s the Aging in Place fixation , perpetuated by the media , as well as AARP – just use the checklist and help Mom age in place ! category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , aging in place , seniors and aging policy Seniors and families need them?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

What is the AARP AgeTech Collaborative? AARP’s AgeTech Collaborative launched in 2021 with a splash (and 50 startups) that has widened into an age wave, or a sort of Match.com for age-related companies to find others, including collaborators, sponsors, pilots, and more. Learn more at RightHear.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Pew hasn’t bothered lately, but AARP recently published a survey of tech ownership among the 50+. Meanwhile, the average age of a first time grandparent in the US is 50 and by age 65, according to AARP data, 96% are grandparents. Despite the user interface complexity, smartphone adoption by seniors is rising. Just saying.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

Others are discussing the race to enable ‘televisits’ -- noting outreach from AARP to CMS to boost the requirement for enabling technology in nursing homes. These may have revealed -- like the AARP recent survey of the 70+ age group -- the lack of adoption of devices and tech among the oldest. If so, please comment.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

There are wearables that can predict the onset of stroke , track at home blood pressure , as well as fit into Air Tags or Smart Tags that can pinpoint the location of a purse, phone (or suitcase) left behind or a person who is lost. category tags: AgeTech , AI and machine learning , home health care , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2023

And it is fair to say that the applications of it is making its way into the world of older adults, this AARP article describes its uses for older adults in generating a letter to contest a medical bill. Though with its initial user calculation at 100 million, it now appears the fastest growing ‘consumer’ application in history.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2023

These 2022 initiatives offer opportunities to tech firms that focus on older adults, collaborations like AARP and OATS , as well as the entrants in AARP's AgeTech Collaborative. 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

JANUARY 28, 2020

AARP recently published several new reports -- all worth a read. The survey reports, about the 50+ gamers and 50+ tech trends , each identify an age band of the 70+, something AARP began a few years ago and kudos to them, that banding continues among some of their research reports.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

The first, HomeEXCEPT was one missed at the time, emerging from a 2017 AARP Innovation Business Plan competition. The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , wearables, smart watch , IoT and home monitoring , healthcare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

Before the pandemic, a baseline of tech adoption was set by a 2020 AARP Tech Trends study that indicated 10% of older adults using smart home technology, only 62% of the 70+ using smartphones, few reporting use of virtual assistants or smartwatches, even fewer using devices for health and wellness. But let’s remember the baseline.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Then AARP and OATS joined together to teach tech to older adults. category tags: computers, internet and social networking. More programs are emerging to get older adults to tech parity. Maybe 2020 was the tipping point and 2021 is the year. which also seems elusive – monthly, plus activation fee, plus equipment rental.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

They can be shepherded by organizations like AARP , appear in international exhibits like the Swiss pavilion, the Korean and beyond. Pew and AARP smartphone statistics in 2023 may verify. category tags: smartphones , smart home , AI and machine learning , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , fall prevention, fall detection.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

According to AARP, smartphone ownership is way up, even among those aged 70+. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones. Growth has slowed , but voice usage did not – 46% of Americans are accessing a voice assistant at least once per month. How about those aged 65+?

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

An AARP Foundation report published in early October verified what we already knew. category tags: social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. What’s been going on with older adults in the context of social isolation and loneliness? Pandemic activity limitations resulted in social isolation and loneliness.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

AARP fuels it with survey results (77% of the 50+ want to age in place). And AARP helps add brand recognition to the term ' Age Tech ' with a collaborative of companies at the Nexus of Longevity and Technology to deal with health issues and mitigate fear. The hype of aging in place. Which means it will become very useful.

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MARCH 12, 2022

Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia. AARP partnered with OATS (Older Adults Technology Services) to make tech training available nationwide. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

A new report from AARP this week zeros in on something we all knew: Advertisers focus on the young – not unlike the tech firms who make products being advertised. category tags: Aging , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , smart home , smartphones, cell phones. Getty images show advertising’s ageist stereotypes.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

AARP, which has been researching the subject since 2010, released new survey results in 2018 confirming the same percentage – 35 percent of adults age 45+ are lonely – but with a growing number of older adults in the population, this represents an additional five million adults based on census data and asks them to assess their health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

AARP fuels it with survey results (77% of the 50+ want to age in place). And AARP helps add brand recognition to the term ‘ Age Tech’ with a collaborative of companies at the Nexus of Longevity and Technology to deal with health issues and mitigate fear. The articles and tech industry focus on aging in place and fear. Read more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 23, 2022

Yet consider the OATS/AARP 22 million of the 65+ that lack home broadband (derived from the Census)? AARP’s survey that combines older adults into a 70+ age group ? category tags: AgeTech , smartphones , Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking. Pew’s 25% of the 65+ that don’t go online ?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

Technology Adoption -- AARP. The AARP Research survey of older adults was completed in 2019, published in early 2020 as well and found a larger percentage in the older age (age 70+, good for them!) category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Family caregivers. ranges using technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

category tags: wearables, smart watch , Technology - AARP. More when there’s more. This is the next blog post in a series prior to publication of the report, the Future of Wearables and Older Adults 2021].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 31, 2018

Amazon may – or may not – collaborate with AARP on offerings for seniors. AARP has demonstrated its enthusiasm by creating an AARP Alexa ‘flash briefing’ skill that is ‘curated for the ‘50-plus crowd.’ category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging , smart home , Voice First/AI technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 29, 2022

Sift through non-profits, including AARP's articles, look at websites that may be condition-specific, take a look at Eldercare Locator narrow a list of whatever it may be and wherever it may be. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , senior living.

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MARCH 19, 2020

Or your aging mother doesn’t have any of those devices – only 62% of those aged 70+ own smartphones, according to AARP. category tags: mHealth-Telehealth-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , healthcare. Your healthcare provider isn’t running any training today. So someone (you?) and here’s home care. More when there’s more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 2, 2019

? AARP research h ighlights changes in technology adoption. What a difference more than a decade makes. Consider a long-ago AARP document that examined technology use of the 65+ population. By 2018, in another AARP report, tech attitude differences between the 70+ and younger population were apparent. The jury is still out.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Let’s go with the AARP number of 62% of the 70+ owning smartphones. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , social isolation , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health. This shouldn’t be that hard, but the data seems to be at best surveyed annually. And the detailed breakdown of the several decades starting at ‘70+’?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Let’s assume that for now, AARP has halted its regional training (18 locations) and the OATS center-based training is also halted. A few other options, like this one to get online, or for those who are online, check out this guide from AARP which includes reasons why telehealth matters.

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