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. In-home care, home health care , remote patient monitoring (RPM) , fall detection , and other services that help older adults age in their homes are critical. What trends matter this year and beyond?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

It's 2021 and baby boomers turn 75. Caregiver shortages, prolonged isolation, and aging -- boost in-home monitoring. With the aging of baby boomers, newer offerings like Support.com (any connected device) will tailor messages to reach an older adult audience.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

Elder Home Monitoring 2.0 – it may fill a growing need. These may signal not only the next generation of in-home monitoring, but also the next generation of predictive analytics used to help older adults stay longer at home and/or out of the hospital. These sensors monitor your loved ones’ activities and feed information to our app.

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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

APRIL 6, 2022

Note the top trends that matter this Many changes underway in the enabling tech categories for older adults – including the importance of tech for home care agencies – not just the apps for the workers, but for care recipients, such as remote monitoring. Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring?

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If there was a time to look at the role of monitoring and engagement technologies that augment and assist the worker in the care of older adults – it would seem that this is the time. A decade from now, the oldest baby boomers will be 86. Consider the Chicago Tribune article about tech for aging in place. It makes you think.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And on 9/24 Amazon announced CareHub, a way to monitor family members from afar. 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+). Kiplinger: High Tech Aids for Aging in Place, September, 2020.

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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

MARCH 18, 2019

Where the baby (or elderly family member) may be. Really, finding someone to watch your baby or your aging father is analogous to finding a worker to fill a job opening in your IT department or seeking a manager to fill out your org chart? category tags: IoT and home monitoring , Home Care , tech-enabled home care , senior living.

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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. Amazon’s Alexa Together wants to help monitor falls of older adults in senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2018

Behavior monitoring for aging-at-home, allowing better care services, improved emergency detection and predictive analytics. Implantable stroke monitor for high risk atrial fibrillation to reduce time to treatment after an ischemic stroke. Learn more at Tomeah Health. More when there is more. More when there is more. Ohmni Robot.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Baby boomers are aging and want to stay in their homes as long as feasible. Many will need to be monitored in their home for chronic diseases and in-home risk of falling – Amazon noticed with Alexa Together – Verizon noticed with its Care Smart Watch. Soon all 54 million of them will be over 65. ATA’s live event return to Boston.

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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. Wearables, remote patient monitoring. category tags: baby boomers , Seniors , aging in place.

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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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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

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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

Of course the aging of the baby boomers (oldest are age 73) is on the minds of lots of businesses and government groups, for various reasons. And what about linking hearables to reminders of names via face recognition, with health alerts synced to fitness monitors – helping to prevent social isolation and health decline.

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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. Older adults will be increasingly vulnerable to defaults and privacy hacks -- not just AARP-monitored scams. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , baby boomers , digital health , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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. category tags: baby boomers , digital health , telehealth , social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. Read more. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 18, 2019

Where the baby (or elderly family member) may be. Really, finding someone to watch your baby or your aging father is analogous to finding a worker to fill a job opening in your IT department or seeking a manager to fill out your org chart? category tags: IoT and home monitoring , Home Care , tech-enabled home care , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And on 9/24 Amazon announced CareHub, a way to monitor family members from afar. 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+). Kiplinger: High Tech Aids for Aging in Place, September, 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 16, 2018

First a dabble with the now departed Wellcore in 2011 – clearly the time was not right – the oldest baby boomer turned 72 in 2018, but at 65 in 2010, consumers could not comprehend the utility of a wearable fall detector. category tags: Mobile PERS , cell phones, smartphones , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

First a dabble with the now departed Wellcore in 2011 – clearly the time was not right – the oldest baby boomer turned 72 in 2018, but at 65 in 2010, consumers could not comprehend the utility of a wearable fall detector. category tags: cell phones, smartphones , Family caregivers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Read more here.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

First a dabble with the now departed Wellcore in 2011 – clearly the time was not right – the oldest baby boomer turned 72 in 2018, but at 65 in 2010, consumers could not comprehend the utility of a wearable fall detector. Last week they announced two features of a new watch, ECG monitoring and fall detection.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 8, 2018

There’s also a blood pressure monitor, baby-monitoring camera, and a mat that tracks your sleep. Careel refuses to say how much he paid to get his company back, but it’s probably safe to assume the price tag was less than what he sold it for, with little growth in sales or products under Nokia’s tutelage.

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