Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Taking stock of the tech market for older adults – what’s happened? Past the halfway mark in 2023, it’s increasingly clear that the older adult tech market has been disrupted by changes in demand. Its increasingly transformed by new technologies emerging from new funding sources tech disruption, and entrepreneurial initiatives.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Big tech companies seem to be suffering from the lemming effect – if one conducts a wave of layoffs, the pressure is intense to shrink the corporate staffs , address poor performance (of staff? Projects are underway at the University of Illinois , MIT AgeLab , Georgia Tech , and no doubt other university programs around the US.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

It’s already been a big year for new Amazon offerings that could benefit older people. By 2018, it was obvious that this was a breakthrough for seniors , ending the tech requirement to tap, touch, pinch, swipe, zoom…and curse at computers and smartphones. Amazon moved forward in 2018 with HIPAA-compliant tech in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Here is a regularly updated list of deep-dive case studies showing how providers of all shapes and sizes are making their tech spend work for them. By Bill Siwicki | June 27, 2023 News Baptist Health consolidates legacy EHRs to Epic, adds AI-powered Rx tech The Florida health system has converted more than 7.3

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Big tech revealed growing interest in older adults and investors saw the potential in firms like Papa, which provides (reimbursed) varied assistance to older adults. And maybe the big deal starts now – the oldest baby boomers turn 76, which should trigger even more investment in 2022 and beyond. The year 2021 was pivotal.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

Besides these invisible upgrades, the voice assistant technology has been continually improving – and if the user could be made aware of those improvements (a BIG IF), they might find them to be very useful. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , computers, broadband, and social networking , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Here are the five blog posts from August: Taking stock of the tech market for older adults – what’s happened? Past the halfway mark in 2023, it’s increasingly clear that the older adult tech market has been disrupted by changes in demand. What is the context for technology change in 2023? It never should not have gotten to this point.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2019

of venture capital investment , including the big money ( $115 million to date ) that has gone to just one company. (And They represent a large proportion of health care spending (including tech like the $3 billion PERS market ), and they represent both caregiver and care recipient in that market.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Pew hasn’t bothered lately, but AARP recently published a survey of tech ownership among the 50+. How do tech firms and insurers overcome this reluctance? This is laudable. With persuasion?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Some might say that sensor technology for older adults is nothing new. What’s the big deal? This type of tech had obvious benefits, even then, but today, what was obvious then has become a crisis of care today. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , baby boomers , senior living. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

Ten years ago, the tech product choices designed for older adults were few and rudimentary. The intent was simplification of the basics for the tech-reluctant – sending email, looking at information online. Sadly, it appears that only Link·age surveys tech ownership of the oldest, but that only encompasses their own constituency.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 28, 2020

Reading about big tech controversies can make you sigh. Uh, was I shown that because of one of my tweets about tech in nursing homes? category tags: social media , computers, internet and social networking. You may remember when the browser arrived. Maybe you knew about Mosaic in 1993 or Netscape Navigator in 1994.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. The meeting’s tagline this year is “Health That Connects + Tech That Cares.” Note that 3 in 4 Washingtonians supported the law when polled in March 2023, with only 17% of people opposing it.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The biggest older adult tech news from August was audible. The big five hearing aid manufacturers will once again remake and remarket themselves, their brands and pricing to fit the new rule. What’s the big deal? Yesterday was a big day that should have happened several years ago. population ages 65 and over will be 83.9

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

And finally, to cap things off, today the big guns of the tech industry, will spend seven hours behind closed doors discussing how to regulate AI. from very small to very big. category tags: Family caregivers , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AI and machine learning , AgeTech In 2021, Aging 2.0,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. Region Tag: Global Edition. The 'problem of plenty' for healthcare organizations.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 1, 2019

Lots of negative tech energy in 2018, including healthcare data breaches , Facebook’s loss of trust , ditto with Google and its much discussed anti-competitive positioning in search. A few topics that stood out: We can hear voice tech with all devices and for all people – especially for seniors. But as the Voicebot.ai

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

Tech adoption among the oldest has not kept pace with technology improvements. Medicare Advantage changes may revive tech-enabled home care services. category tags: baby boomers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Home Care , IoT and home monitoring , Voice Assistants/Smart Speakers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

This represents a big opportunity for innovation. Think about your tech stack and whether those are robust enough for work from anywhere with security measures in place. Region Tag: Global Edition. Going into 2022, we may now be able to benefit from this historic shift away from rigid workflows and risk avoidance.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2022

For example, we expect tech products to be more intuitive and usable than they are. There seems to be a growing number of tech offerings that can see, sense, detect, and learn about behavioral patterns as part of new tools for older adults and their caregivers. July offered time to think about gaps and staff shortages.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Investors continue to salivate over health tech. Thankfully the big guns like Gillette and Google see an opportunity -- and even an expansion, amazingly, of their business. . A marketer of this tech told me recently that their traction and focus is in ‘healthcare’ – not aging. Rant on. So the first half of 2018 saw $3.4

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In the time of CES 2022 – advice to tech firms about older adults. The Consumer Electronics Show was smaller in size, but big in tech futures. Many big companies decided at the last minute to stay home, eliminating, as one attendee noted, the lines at Starbucks. Technologies for Older Adults from CES 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Annually, billions in government spending to replace obsolete networks passes over big cities, and is squandered by large telecom and cable companies before broadband reaches rural homes. "What happens if there isn't PC tech support when someone has a problem with a telehealth app?" Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2021

We are seeing digital health startups merge or get acquired by larger tech firms to achieve this goal. Region Tag: Global Edition. The unusual deal announcement indicates that the two companies, with combined revenues of less than $15 million were acquired for a combined value of more than $300 million.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

This weekend’s Wall Street Journal Saturday/Sunday edition featured a big story on the economic force of women in the summer of 2023, termed “the women’s multiplier effect” — that women’s spending is a powerful force in the U.S. economy (and as it turns out, in Sweden’s economy as well).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The Philadelphia event hosted a simulated Day in the Life that included Hamilton Captel (tech for hearing impaired) and VR startup Embodied Labs. category tags: senior living , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Learn more at SoundMindInc.

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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. As for tech adoption…the AARP executive summary is upbeat. million people aged 65+. million age 85+.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 19, 2018

The more things change… Life expectancy is long – tech attention span from investors and innovators can be short. From a baseline of tech non-use, some saw opportunity. Looking back at the pre-smartphone time, PointerWare and Big Screen Live were two ways to bring computers and email to seniors. Attachment Size. pdf 909.71

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

Never a dull moment in tech world. With this lawsuit, coupled with government attempts to crack down on big tech , is the tide is turning? category tags: Home Care , Mobile PERS , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , social media. The Meta Pixel problem – who would have thought? The result was bleak and informative.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Carriers hopefully notified the owners (or resellers) who offered a free replacement device, and in general this has been viewed as no big deal (we’ll see!). Will these technologies move senior living from a food-and-furniture paradigm to AI-enabled tech service delivery? fire alarms, some smart watches, E-readers, and GPS trackers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Most because it was difficult to absorb and rationalize so much tech news, hype, booths and convention center halls at the Digital Health Summit at CES 2019 – where a step counter status update may have been the most satisfying experience of all at the end of the day. January 2019 was a l-o-o-o-n-g month. A few topics that stood out.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Tech firms are trying to boost access to the internet and devices – will this become 2021 action priority for non-profits and government? Here are four blog posts from November: Filling in the Tech Basics. It’s already been a big year for new Amazon offerings that could benefit older people. Will that help? Read more. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It seems only yesterday that Tech-Enabled Home Care was published – with that wonderful Forbes graphic “Why VCs Care More About Home Care”. The article noted the $200 million invested just in 2016 -- with the big money that year of $60M in ClearCare , with $46 million in Care.com and $42 million in Honor next in line.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 9, 2018

That is an interesting search – pages and pages of Start Me Up pilots in tech, programs, initiatives large and small, all linked, no doubt to corresponding media spend and press releases. Think back on the cycles of tech deployment. From the report, with the chart giving an italicized nod to tech of 2018. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2022

For so many who have been Zooming, Teaming, and WebEx’ing, lo, these many months, it’s actually comforting to know that the big exhibit shows are back. And to stay up to date, here are the four blog posts from February, 2022: For older adults, television is a solid rock in a shifting tech landscape. The rise of AgeTech – it is a trend.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Marge Axelrad of Jobson then set out the agenda for the day, asking one of the day’s big questions, “Can experience and data co-exist?” Data and tech can re-define new experiences,” she said. The tag line of the book is how AI can help humanize health care. She said, “of course it can,” as the day’s content proved out.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Not just because of the calendar, but because of the pace of return to California dreamer and tech breathless launches and device announcements , Facebook’s 50 million user data breach – the usual. Here are four blog posts from September 2018: Investors continue to salivate over health tech. September always seems like a short month.

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