Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

Most would agree: AI is the hottest segment in the technology market today. 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

MARCH 28, 2024

One would believe this ubiquity of access might make us hopeful that we are now in the era of tech helping consumers of all ages, no matter what task or level of knowledge. Watch the customers at a bakery avoid the two kiosks to wait to place their orders with a server. Or has the tech user experience also deteriorated?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Notably, the GUIDE Model currently does not note or suggest any of the available technology , including home automation, that could improve dementia care. We bring this technology to caregivers through an easy-to-use app. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , AgeTech , smartphones, cellphones BoundaryCare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

The hype of aging in place. The articles and tech industry focus on aging in place and fear. AARP fuels it with survey results (77% of the 50+ want to age in place). Free-lance writers follow up with an Aging in Place story citing the survey. Which means it will become very useful.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

We are approaching end of the year – it has been a good one for emerging technologies that can help older adults, today commonly known as AgeTech. The timing is right – as 56 million Americans are now aged 65+, looming older population growth has awakened the sleeping giant. AT THE EDGE: Alert without Wi-Fi. Stay tuned!].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

Its subtitle: " Generative artificial intelligence presents a philosophical and practical challenge on a scale not experienced since the start of the Enlightenment." The hype of aging in place. The articles and tech industry focus on aging in place and fear. Of course, in the ways it can be helpful to any adult.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Its increasingly transformed by new technologies emerging from new funding sources tech disruption, and entrepreneurial initiatives. What is the context for technology change in 2023? Families are relentless about keeping aging relatives at home. As with other crises, technology solutions will be explored and adopted.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

From electric motorcycles and low-profile automobile antennas , the unfolding TV to robotic pool cleaners and lawn mowers and construction , it sounds like it was a noisy place. eSight is a wearable assistive technology that allows people living with visual impairments to stay on the go while performing the tasks of daily living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Technology solutions augment care – not replacing family or support. Care-related service organizations are taking a closer look at technologies that could help them cope more effectively with staffing shortages and other issues. For all ages, isolation is increasingly untenable without the technology to connect to others.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Technology was essential for many adults stuck at home during the pandemic, providing some social connection, access to online shopping, home delivery services, and requests for transportation. And for some, technologies were not affordable – median income of a household age 75+ is $34,925. Training access.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Nearly a third of older adults, according to a National Council on Aging post , are foregoing visits to emergency rooms, afraid of catching the virus. Five offerings from the Rock Health Aging in Place report. Venture interest in Aging in Place – is it a turning point? Agin in place – the latest trend.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Aging in place – it’s emerged (again) during these Covid-19 times. But ‘aging in place’ is still a challenge and maybe a pipe dream for seniors in their late 70’s or 80’s. No matter where older adults live, technology capability matters. Déjà vu all over again.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2023

But it’s not too early, as the new report, The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 , points out through interviews with those deploying conversational AI and machine learning technology today. MIT Technology Review packs all the AI news that’s fit to pack into an up-to-the-minute digest. Some say that we are in The Golden Age of AI.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2021

A just-released report sponsored by the Humana Foundation and OATS called Aging Connected , made the case that nearly 22 million seniors (age 65+) lack wireline broadband access at home. million aged 65+ have home broadband. See January published 2021 Market Overview Technology and Aging ].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

in place with Zoom, FaceTime -- and few place settings. We’ve seen how technology and innovation in other verticals of healthcare have created better treatments, cost-savings, and health outcomes that have ultimately improved lives. It was a strange Thanksgiving for many – staying (stuck?) Learn more at eCaring. GetSetUp.io

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Lack of standardization of technology platforms – or lack of care platforms altogether – hobbled the care industries -- senior living, home care, home healthcare. That committing to aging independently at home is a permanent decision, that home care is a parallel universe to senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

But there was also an awakening to the significance of aging in place , the investment category of older adults , the market power of older adults , including the 65+ population of 54 million. And who knew that the fastest growing subsegment was those aged 80+ ? Voice first technology – in everything.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2022

None of these concepts are specific to designing for inclusion of aging adults. At a recent event, recommendations from design experts were discussed and considered in the context of aging adults. category tags: assistive technologies , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , baby boomers , Television/Smart TV.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Aging in place – it’s emerged (again) during these Covid-19 times. But ‘aging in place’ is still a challenge and maybe a pipe dream for seniors in their late 70’s or 80’s. No matter where older adults live, technology capability matters. Déjà vu all over again.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

Typically, as in this podcast from ' This Week in Voice' about Aging in Place, one hears the usual concerns about security and privacy, no doubt because older people have expressed those concerns. Also note that the survey extended to boomers (those aged 56 to 74) who apparently cared less than younger people.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Sensor technology is increasingly useful in the care of older adults. Now think about appropriately placed sensor technologies -- motion sensors, radio waves, localized AI cameras, near or on-body movement detection technologies. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , tech-enabled home care , Family caregivers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Venture interest in Aging in Place – is it a turning point? In their September, 2020 Aging in Place report, the authors note that demographics, regulatory and policy changes (aka reimbursement via Medicare Advantage plans), and Covid-19’s boosted use of digital health combine to make this a pivotal point.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

It is increasingly transformed by new technologies emerging from new funding sources, multiple forms of tech disruption, and entrepreneurial initiatives. What is the context for technology change in 2023? Five technologies to mitigate social isolation. The scam: You may know someone of Medicare age with a phone?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

In the time of Covid-19, some are talking about an increasing use of technology in their nursing homes. Others are discussing the race to enable ‘televisits’ -- noting outreach from AARP to CMS to boost the requirement for enabling technology in nursing homes. Perhaps this is already possible in some place you know about.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 14, 2019

Each time the population aged 65+ is counted, it’s a bigger number. As they do so, they will force industries to change offerings – and drive considerable change in technology that underpins their lives. Consider signals from today's older adults that will only become more pronounced as the boomers move past today's upper age of 73.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

Certainly one factor is the growth in the number of older adults living alone , including 44% of women aged 75+. Technology’s role in mitigating it is being studied in research programs and healthcare. Five technology offerings to mitigate social isolation of older adults. Learn more at GrandPad. Iamfine daily automated calls.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2020

That was then… In early 2020, focus sharpens on market categories of aging and caregiving. AARP published a new report that showed growing interest in technology among those aged 70+. The resulting loneliness and depression revealed a glaring digital divide between the technology haves and have-nots among older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

" Movement Interactive, powered by Iveda, has delivered on a $200,000 contract with Waymark Gardens , effectively supporting hundreds of residents aging in place with AI and IoT-enabled telehealth and fall detection technology. Building upon its clinical success, OneStep is now working with hundreds of SNFs across the US.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2020

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. million people aged 65+. Of these, 22 million people age 75+ , 9 million age 75-79 , 6 million are aged 80-84 , and 6.5

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This is the tenth anniversary of the launch of this Market Overview of technology for ‘Aging in Place’, to be published in March 2019 – the category of offerings that help enable older adults to remain longer in their home of choice. Maybe 2019 will begin a decade of technology streamlining, integration, and simplification.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It is extracted from the Technology for Aging 2022 Market Overview, to be posted following CES, and including 30 offerings that were not in the 2021 version. Technologies for Older Adults from CES 2022. As with prior CES events, multiple new technologies that benefit older adults were showcased from around the world.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Honor bought Home Instead – which should result in more technology used in the home care industry -- and soon, hopefully, for an industry suffering from a severe labor shortage. Here are the four December posts: Why is Age-Tech different from All-Tech? Age-Tech has its own Market Map as developed by Keren Etkin, Gerontechnologist.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

My favorite tests are about population counts by age – both should be up to date on how many people in the US are 65+. But both Google (starting with A Place For Mom’s low-ball of 54.1 Remember when voice first technology became ‘voice’. million presumably updated in 2022, and Bing Chat’s 54.7

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2022

For one thing, at least two-thirds of older adults (age 70+) own smartphones , the 65+ population prefers Alexa among voice assistants , one-third of Americans have smart speakers. Advice to seniors seeks to help older adults understand how to benefit from voice while aging in place. Learn more. Google Nest and Senior Living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

The continuing desire to age at home , Medicare rate cuts combined with staffing shortages , affordability of home care reaching smaller percentage of the people who need it , shortage of available workers – all seem like the perfect storm. Home care organizations are caught in the crosshair of trends.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 30, 2019

In 2018, technology utilization grew – so did frustrations. While Internet and social media technology use has plateaued over all age ranges, Facebook still has captured only 41% of the 65+. In early 2019, AARP Research published a technology survey taken in 2018 which showed ownership of smartphones growing to 65% of the 65+.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 7, 2019

But as inevitable as those changes are, other notable events occurred during September – including AARP’s partnership with Getty Images to combat age bias in advertising. The four blog posts from September : MIT Technology Review’s "Old Age is Over" is thought provoking. Read more. .

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