Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 31, 2022

category tags: fall prevention, fall detection , AgeTech , baby boomers. Several have said that the brains of these innovations, however, should initiate ‘ at the edge’ -- that is, closest to where the care recipient actually is, not in the cloud.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2024

All baby boomers (born 1946-1964) will be aged 65 by 2030. Still valid -– advice from experts on how not to succeed in a murky market. category tags: seniors and aging policy , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones In that respect, nothing has changed, except the investors, featured companies and presenters, of course.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 17, 2022

category tags: hearables/hearing technology , hearing loss , baby boomers. Figure 1 Percentage of adults 45+ who used a hearing aid 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . Figure 2 Percentage of adults 45+ with difficulty hearing even when using a hearing aid 2019.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sarah Krouse and Anne Steele, the WSJ journalists, tag-team doing a great job quantifying the women’s fiscal force, quoting Blair Kohan, an agent with UTA who represents Greta Gerwig, the Barbie movie’s director, saying, “Women have always been a deeply underestimated economic force.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

As 2022 begins, the oldest baby boomer turns 76. Because of the sheer size of the older adult market, and the wealth of baby boomers, vendors increasingly see them as constituents for new offerings. category tags: home health care , smart home , IoT and home monitoring , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology , AgeTech.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2021

It's 2021 and baby boomers turn 75. With the aging of baby boomers, newer offerings like Support.com (any connected device) will tailor messages to reach an older adult audience. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , AI , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , technology support.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 14, 2019

The baby boomer generation’s later years will be unprecedented. category tags: baby boomers , senior living , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. Each time the population aged 65+ is counted, it’s a bigger number. That onslaught, now at 52 million, bears repeating.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A decade from now, the oldest baby boomers will be 86. category tags: robotics , Family caregivers , Home Care. Context matters: consider the likely status of people in 10 years. It makes you think. Asked this question recently and pondered. What will be the context at that time? They may be solo agers – no children, spouse or partner.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2018

From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal – pops up a dramatic headline, The Loneliest Generation , describing how baby boomer Americans, more than ever, are aging alone. Okay, let’s remind ourselves that baby boomers make up the population ranging in birth year from 1946-1964. But approximately 33% of baby boomers are obese, only 8.3%

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For the wellbeing future of aging baby boomers and their families, there is no choice. category tags: Conversational and generative AI , healthcare , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health Will these changes make their way into senior living, nursing homes and home care?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

RockHealth, the “first venture fund dedicated to digital health”, has declared this year a turning point in the market of offerings for older adults (aka baby boomers, particularly those 65+). category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Family caregivers. Learn more at TomorrowHealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2022

category tags: IoT and home monitoring , baby boomers , senior living. Using intelligent redistribution technology, the Kalogon Smart Cushion eliminates direct pressure on sensitive areas, designed to not only accelerate the healing process of pressure injuries, but also prevent new injuries from occurring." Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 11, 2023

See future -- by 2030 all baby boomers will be 65+. See latest report, The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 ] category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It took the aging of the baby boomers and the sheer size of the aging population to turn a 2009 market niche into a 2020 major market category. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. This report interview 21 pioneering health and research executives.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

In 2022, the oldest baby boomer turns 76, while the population aged 65+ will exceed 54 million. Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , IoT and home monitoring. What trends matter this year and beyond?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The oldest baby boomer (of the total of 54 million) is 76; 34% of the US population is aged 50+ (meaning 108 million people); 12% of that 50+ population are solo agers (13 million) -- previously and hideously titled ‘elder orphans.’ category tags: AgeTech , computers, broadband, and social networking , hearables , smartphones.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2022

category tags: assistive technologies , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , baby boomers , Television/Smart TV. Eventually we may discover that voice interfaces will replace the other methods of interactions, including accessibility settings and beyond.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

And the shortages in home care , home healthcare , skilled nursing facilities and senior living are juxtaposed with an overall labor shortage, just as the oldest baby boomer has turned 76 and has significant remaining life expectancy. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care. That is a sign.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Consider the baby boomer population growth. Report is published -- read it here ] category tags: caregivers , healthcare , tech-enabled home care , home health care , senior living Pressure is growing in senior living to ‘keep people well’ in conjunction with a higher level of acuity of care needs. What will drive innovation in care?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Another study noted that the average family caregiver is a baby boomer woman. Click here to for the Technology for Aging 2023 Market Overview category tags: Family caregivers , seniors and aging policy Notable at the end of 2022, the Administration for Community Living published the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A decade from now, the oldest baby boomers will be 86. Yet a new study just published noted that 91% of baby boomers felt overwhelmed by technology, with computers being the most daunting device. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , robotics , Home Care , home health care , senior living , SNF. It makes you think.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As 2022 begins, the oldest baby boomer turns 76. Because of the sheer size of the older adult market, and the wealth of baby boomers, vendors increasingly see them as constituents for new offerings. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2022

So how will the paid caregiver gap be closed as the baby boomers age into the 80+ age range, only four years away from the oldest baby boomer, now 76? category tags: Home Care , Family caregivers. Those with chronic diseases have a higher incidence of disability in activities of daily living (ADLs). Attachment Size.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

RockHealth, the “first venture fund dedicated to digital health”, has declared this year a turning point in the market of offerings for older adults (aka baby boomers, particularly those 65+). category tags: computers, internet and social networking , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Mobile PERS.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Or to put the question another way, what is it that these devices do that can help maintain or improve health, noting that 32% of baby boomers today get no exercise whatsoever , according to the CDC. category tags: wearables, smart watch , baby boomers , Aging , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

In 2022, the oldest baby boomer turns 76, while the population aged 65+ will exceed 54 million. And the shortages in home care , home healthcare , skilled nursing facilities and senior living are juxtaposed with an overall labor shortage, just as the oldest baby boomer has turned 76 and has significant remaining life expectancy.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This theory has been tested within the healthcare industry over the last few years as the COVID-19 pandemic aligned with, and expedited, the retirement of many employees in the Baby Boomer generation. Nearly 29 million Baby Boomers retired in 2020, three and a half million more than in 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Given the pace of baby boomers aging into their 80’s and beyond, we may soon be at the stage where housing developers, particularly 55+ ‘Proptech’ visionaries, will build in technology that can meet the needs of older adults. It’s a good start down the path of making physical property smarter about older occupants.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It’s a new year and the baby boomers turn 75. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , computers, internet and social networking. Time for the Market Overview Technology for Aging 2021. Issues have often been noted which act as as barriers to accessing services like telehealth for example. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

Note: Please see the 2023 updated Market Overview Technology for Aging ] category tags: Generative AI , aging in place , AgeTech , baby boomers , AI and machine learning As is typical of hype cycles, initial innovation is viewed as astounding, followed by efforts to break or downplay it. Which means it will become very useful.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

As the oldest Baby Boomer turns 73 this year, vendor interest in tech for older adults reaches all the way from (A) Apple to (Z) Zanthion. billion by 2022 -- the year the oldest baby boomer turns 76. In 2009, the market was forecast to be $20 billion by 2020. . All of that has changed by 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A conundrum – will less healthy baby boomers be among the centenarians? Baby boomers may have a longer life expectancy at 65 than their parents – most likely due to availability of more sophisticated health care and medications. category tags: baby boomers , Seniors , aging in place.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

Note: Please see the 2023 updated Market Overview Technology for Aging ] category tags: Generative AI , aging in place , AgeTech , baby boomers As is typical of hype cycles, initial innovation is viewed as astounding, followed by efforts to break or downplay it. Which means it will become very useful.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2018

category tags: baby boomers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , Family caregivers , VR/AR technology , voice/AI technology. Ohmni Robot. Designed specifically for seniors to enable them to continue their independent living in a comfortable and worry-free environment. Learn more from OhmniLabs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 12, 2018

We hate being in retail stores – thought that may not apply to all -- not millennials and not baby boomers. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , baby boomers , digital health , senior living. The favorite rejoinder – we brought this consolidation, uh, monopoly, on ourselves.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

category tags: baby boomers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Home Care , IoT and home monitoring , Voice Assistants/Smart Speakers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. This change will no doubt drive 2019 interest in labor-saving caregiving technology in both home care and senior living settings.

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