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Five 2022 AgeTech Trends That Matter to Older Adults

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Until the past few years, fall detection has been linked to the PERS market – pendants, and now wearables that have built-in accelerometers for fall detection. category tags: AI and machine learning , hearables/hearing technology , fall prevention, fall detection , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants. DETECT THE FALLS: Detect without a wearable.

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Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

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The technology equivalent of this can be gait recognition sensors using mobile accelerometers. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients Featured Decision Content: For example, as a patient walks into the clinic, a physician notices his gait.

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Nine more older adult technology offerings from CES 2021

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These sensors include accelerometers with gyroscopes, touch sensors, and microphones. category tags: assistive technologies , robotics , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , vision and vision technology. Moflin is an AI pet robot with "emotional capabilities", and it looks like a fluffy gray guinea pig, with black beady eyes and soft fur.

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Wearables for health and wellbeing

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These devices have a built-in accelerometer and gyroscope which may be activated in a fall. category tags: wearables, smart watch , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. Depending on whether the feature is available and also turned on, the device may place a call to emergency services. Electrocardiogram (ECG).

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Six Offerings from 2018 What’s Next Business Boomer Summit

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category tags: wearables, smart watch , Mobile PERS , voice/AI technology , IoT and home monitoring , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. "Patent-pending battery system in the band, you never have to take your watch off to charge – and unlike Apple watch or Samsung Gear, we don’t require a smart phone (because it’s built in).

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More older adult technology offerings from CES 2021

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These sensors include accelerometers with gyroscopes, touch sensors, and microphones. category tags: assistive technologies , robotics , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , vision and vision technology , CES 2021. Learn more at VOY.

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Ten technologies that can help with fall detection in 2019

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We combine cellular, Wi-Fi, GPS, BLE (for hearing aids and telemedicine devices), an accelerometer for automatic fall detection, and continuous speech to provide an active medical alert that works anywhere, along with data-driven artificial intelligence that learns the wearer’s lifestyle to provide predictive, pre-emptive support."