Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

AI is a fundamental machine-learning element in voice technology , which is here to stay, despite the noisy racket about Amazon. Residents can use voice commands to call for help if needed, it is partnered with Amazon in Alexa for Senior Living. category tags: AI and machine learning , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By now, all of these should be integrated into a low-cost platform, as a plug-in suite sold by Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart or Home Depot, spanning broadband access, lighting, sound, temperature control, health and safety status monitoring. category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living

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Telehealth 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Apple and Google innovations begin to matter – and then there’s Amazon. Meanwhile over at Amazon, multiple new features were announced in 2022, including much silliness (Star Trek trivia and fun sounds in the weather update). In comparison to Apple and Google, Amazon targets older adults in its offerings.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In this article, we are going to scrape data from Amazon, with the goal of capturing the prices for office chairs sold by Amazon Basics. Step 8: Filter for products sold by Amazon Basics. But we must first identify the tag used to house the prices. That will be for another article. Step 6: Search!

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David Chou

MARCH 25, 2023

Amazon is making a major investment by acquiring One Medical, a leading concierge primary care provider. The move comes at a price tag of $3.9 Shortly after Amazon and One Medical announced their partnership, CVS Health unveiled its plans to acquire Oak Street Health for $10.6 The pharmacy benefit management arm brought in $43.7

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2023

Go ahead, sure, take the Medical licensing exam , produce a flood of books on Amazon , watch students cheat on tests , and so on. The new report, The Future of AI and Older Adults, will be completed this summer and published on this site.] category tags: AgeTech , Generative AI , computers, broadband, and social networking , senior living

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Medical Billing 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

People still shopped in stores – the Mall of America was thriving compared to strip malls , bookstore sales were at their peak – not yet traumatized by Amazon. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking Facebook introduced Live Feed, wrecking Myspace.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. The Center uses the voice and touch enabled Sundial skill for Alexa (optimized for the Amazon Echo Show) to interact with their private Care Circle of family and friends. The last was offered by a giant US network.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 20, 2023

Following 2022’s $70 million spent on lobbying by Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft, little has happened to date. category tags: Conversational and generative AI , AI and machine learning , AgeTech Will anything happen? Maybe 2023 is different? So far, $94 million has been spent and 123 companies have traveled to DC to lobby.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Amazon and Older Adults. It’s already been a big year for new Amazon offerings that could benefit older people. This month’s most obvious change was the introduction of Amazon Care Hub , an Alexa app that can be used to help monitor potentially isolated older adults. 2020 Research Reports – A Recap. Read more. . .

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Remote care Digital Health Telehealth 101

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Wearable tech is an important category these days in department stores, with discount retailers like Target and Walmart, at electronics outlets like Best Buy and, of course, via Amazon’s wearable tech ma. The smartwatch category, with fitness tracking, is hot in 2018, some “smarter” than others.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

After announcing the launch of its Amazon Care service for virtual primary care and home care for all 50 states in May, Amazon revealed that it would need to hire " thousands of employees " to scale the service. This was a challenge that Amazon either did not anticipate or underestimated. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Observe that despite the hysteria over Amazon layoffs , voice technology has passed its hype cycle and is now present and utilized in at least 95 million US households. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , vehicle/transportation technology-services. Up ahead -- CES 2023. Check it out !].

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Nursing 136

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

From in-home motion sensors to Amazon Care to Alexa Together, homes of older adults will continue to be smarter and more useful, especially for healthcare. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Mobile PERS. The stampede into the home boosted demand for broadband access. million users by 2025.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 12, 2022

Amazon is offering a discount coupon to buy a new one. . category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones. But maybe they haven’t noticed whether they have older Kindles (which still need access to an Internet-based library of books) and that there’s no Internet access for them unless they are on Wi-Fi.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2022

Cloud-based software like Amazon, Facebook or Google have trained us over many years to expect to be recognized across all the devices we use. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

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Telehealth 146

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 31, 2018

So one must ask -- has Amazon discovered seniors – sort of, but not overtly. And in fact, a search on the Amazon site turns up many – but as for Amazon itself – well it is as stealth in intent as Google, only more so. Amazon may – or may not – collaborate with AARP on offerings for seniors.

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Medicare 76

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Here are five from recent times: Amazon Care Hub. Amazon Guard Plus. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health. Or consider Apple Family Setup , which enables an Apple Watch to be set up and used without an iPhone, enabling texts, calls and GPS location. Learn more at Care Hub.

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Telehealth 134

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 11, 2023

As one example, Labrador demonstrated a proof-of-concept featuring Amazon's Echo Show 10, installed on top of the Labrador Retriever. category tags: robotics , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living , IoT and home monitoring. All you do is stand as still as you can. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Amazon Alexa: They’re building a health and wellness team , and can list more than 1000 health and wellness skills , though only 13 pop up that are loosely related to older adults. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , Voice First/AI technology. Are any of these initiatives tuned to the needs of older adults?

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 83

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

And we have never seen a world in which the ‘connections’ to everything -- services, shopping, learning about new products, listening to music, meeting people, talking to a doctor -- are all made through an alphabet soup of technology, delivered from almost monopoly-like tech firms from Amazon to Zoom. .

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Telehealth 140

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

Here are a few examples: Voice assistants: Voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant can help older adults perform various tasks using voice commands, such as setting reminders, making phone calls, and controlling smart home devices. category tags: Generative AI , fall prevention, fall detection

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The pilot study of 16 adults aged 75 or more years and living alone in an independent living community used an Amazon Echo device for eight weeks. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , senior living. Learn more. See recent reports: .

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Telehealth 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2020

During 2018, Amazon patented a version of its Alexa technology that perhaps could evaluate whether a person is ill. And in mid-December more than 30 companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, and others announced collaborating on a set of smart home standards – part of Project Connect Home over IP. Who is speaking?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

More recently, Amazon partnered with Vayyar to serve up room-based fall detection as part of Alexa Together. category tags: AI and machine learning , hearables/hearing technology , fall prevention, fall detection , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants. NOTE: Next week, a new report, "The Future of Sensors and Older Adults" will be posted.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 12, 2018

Which could have been the Google scandal, the Twitter scandal, or even Amazon -- consolidation of industry players and using the data to sell them (or make ads ‘more effective’) or as with Amazon, sell them more stuff. Or when they form into near-monopolies like Amazon. The real scandal? Or auto parts ? .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2018

All four of these posts are about our technology life, as shoppers in stores as recently as July 1 , our experience with user interfaces that are designed for none , catching up on the hype/hope/fading hope about self-driving cars , and finally, the only thing that can terrorize a company the size of Walmart – Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

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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. The 2023 versions of voice-first interfaces on smart speakers are no longer ground-breaking – 35% of Americans now own one. Voice assistants and hearing aids.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Apple’s Siri is found 500 million devices , and Amazon (seems to hold the largest share of smart speakers ) shipped at least 40 million devices, though language support lags. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health. In the the next wave, let’s call it Voice 2.0

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Telehealth 130

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

There are plenty of click-bait websites topping the search list, like Holiday Tech Gift Ideas or the lengthy Amazon tech gift list or even a list described as The 7 Best Tech Gifts to Buy for Seniors -- really? Consider the video for Amazon Echo setup. Warning -- this is not a blog post about what to give to seniors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

Medical Guardian already had a PERS watch (from Omate) – which Amazon reviewers did not love ; other than HELP and telling the time, there wasn’t much to it anyway. category tags: Mobile PERS , smartphones , wearables, smart watch.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

They then persisted with a Medication dispensing device that has been eclipsed by others, including pharmacy-connected MedMinder and Amazon-owned Pillpack. category tags: PERS , Mobile PERS , wearables, smart watch , fall prevention, fall detection. Mobile and medications matter.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

AI is a fundamental machine-learning element in voice technology , which is here to stay, despite the noisy racket about Amazon. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , SNF , seniors and aging policy , AI and machine learning. The AI role in deriving predictive analytics from accumulated data is just beginning to reveal its utility.

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Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2021

Flic Smart Buttons can now trigger Amazon Alexa commands. category tags: digital health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home , medication management. We create effective behavior triggers, and put hot triggers in front of motivated people through AI informed buddy matching. Learn more at Dance4Healing. Flic Smart Button.

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Digital Health 138

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2022

Sensor-based room activity monitoring (motion, falls) is on the radar of Vayy ar, Amazon and Origin Wireless , with its Wi-Fi based fall detection. category tags: Mobile PERS , PERS , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , wearables, smart watch. The older and frailer need remote monitoring – of multiple types.

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Quite a few people will, though it is hard to get a real number – which is ironic, since Amazon, Google, Apple, Samsung, etc. For many simple interactions, there is almost no difference in capability between Amazon and Google offerings. category tags: Voice First/AI technology , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Seniors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The failure of previous direct-to-consumer approache s underscored the fallacy of inventor-centric thinking that ‘if we create it, they will buy it from us’ or at least find it on Amazon. Personalized interfaces (like Amazon and Netflix) updated in the cloud, are increasingly expected.

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