Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Approximately half of the older adult population has a smart TV – a common platforms used to stream Internet services without an associated specialty box like Apple TV , Roku or Chromecast. category tags: Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking. Learn more at Independa. Learn more at UniperCare. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Whether you are doing the exercise to lose weight or become and stay fit, the combination of motion and measured heart rate can be compared against goals and even recommended fitness levels. If you’re over 65, Apple Watch can notify emergency responders if you fall – as in this example of an 80-year-old woman. Smart clothing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Is Philips throwing in the towel, now that Verizon, MobileHelp , UnaliWear , FallCall Lite (Apple) – all have caregiving smartwatches with watch faces (and there's even Trelawear's necklace ) that are unobtrusive? Without a wearable and a fits-and-starts history, Philips’ exit is no surprise.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Google offers a long list of assistance with health and medicine questions, fitness exercises and tips , and symptom checkers. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , Voice First/AI technology. Google Actions/Assistant: Google is already perceived by some as better at answering questions via Google Assistant.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I learned about the also-constant bug-fix updates , email addresses masquerading as Apple IDs (don’t get me started) and other apparently arbitrary design decisions much whined about online. category tags: smartphones, cell phones. The access to photos – that was one of the good parts. Smartphone upgrade pace is at an all-time low.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The big five hearing aid manufacturers will once again remake and remarket themselves, their brands and pricing to fit the new rule. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , computers, broadband, and social networking , fall prevention, fall detection. The implications are staggering – hopefully the implementation will match.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 18, 2018

Home health care – perhaps the best fit for Voice First. But is there anyone who thinks that Amazon (or Google or even Apple) won’t overcome current barriers? category tags: Voice First/AI technology , home health care , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Meanwhile, The older adult technology market is still comprised of four main categories , into which the new entrants and inventions, including wearables, sensors, AI, and predictive analytics, will fit. Was it the coolness of the Apple Watch? How do wearables contribute to health and wellbeing of older adults? Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2019

If you have another box, it has a remote, and perhaps another for stereo equipment and an stylishly confusing one for Apple TV. I have a smartphone app that mostly, but not always, syncs with my fitness watch , but accidental touch of the watch’s amazingly touchy screen undoes the style and requires the phone to put it back the way it was.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The new enhancements make it possible for patients to integrate their own health and fitness monitoring tools, whether it is an Apple Watch, a Fitbit, or data collected in an app. Patients bring all their health data into a single place, which helps them get more out of their devices.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 2, 2018

Is this a tool for chronic disease management (not exactly 'wellness') or is this one for tracking a fitness regimen (sounds like wellness)? Finally, as with fall detection, is this product really a feature of other product categories like fitness or is it viable on its own as a solution? And medication (reminders? dispensers?

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