Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. These networks profit the people they serve. Strategically speaking.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Broadband ( high speed Internet, as defined by the FCC ) subscription service has been widely adopted by the 65+ population (see Figure 1 ). Broadband internet subscription 74% 84.8% Broadband internet subscriptions went from 74% to almost 85%. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking million 56.1

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2021

What is broadband and why should seniors want it? The buzz about broadband and older adults has grown louder since the start of the pandemic – which worsened social isolation for so many older adults. million aged 65+ have home broadband. So why don't more older adults have broadband connections in their homes?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2024

Certainly access has improved: Ninety-five percent of Americans use the Internet and more than 80% have broadband at home. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones , Television/Smart TV , wearables, smart watch So that’s good.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

The future: Broadband, voice, and AI are mission critical for senior living. As a result, they may not be focused on enabling resident broadband in their communities. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , computers, broadband, and social networking , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Broadband access. In the 2020 OTI report, The Cost of Connectivity , researchers examined 296 data plans in the US, finding that only 64 of them meet the FCC definition of broadband. Looked at by age, 27% of the 65+ population lack access to broadband. What are the key dimensions that need to be addressed moving forward?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 17, 2024

category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones , Television/Smart TV , AgeTech If a feature disappears or descends into a hidden menu (as with Microsoft Word), what role did users play in reviewing that change before it occurred?

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 14, 2021

Early this year OATS/Humana Foundation cited 22 million people as lacking wireline broadband – or 42% of the population aged 65+. So it would not be guessing to assume that those lacking broadband access are 100% overlapped with the Pew non-users of the Internet. That has Internet subscriptions (Humana broadband number perhaps?)

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 25, 2024

category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smart home , smartphones, cellphones , Television/Smart TV , wearables, smart watch Within the next few years, more tech experiences will be personalized with willingly provided profile data.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 23, 2022

We might learn from the upcoming American Community Survey (ACS) data release which households have broadband connectivity, own a computer or other devices – down to a level of granularity that includes that rarely surveyed category, age 85+. Yet consider the OATS/AARP 22 million of the 65+ that lack home broadband (derived from the Census)?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In fact, one in five ‘broadband’ households is currently or will soon care for a family member, likely remaining in their own or a relative’s home. How about a broadband connection in the home, a voice-activated smartphone with an associated smart watch and smart speaker/display ? Tech for quality of life – aging or not?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

By the way, if it isn’t high speed/broadband, forget about Netflix or FaceTime with the family. According to Broadband Now , 42 million don’t have broadband. According to Broadband Now , 42 million don’t have broadband. These ISPs count a census block as having access even if only one house is enabled!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

What is broadband and why should seniors want it ? The buzz about broadband and older adults has grown louder since the start of the pandemic – which worsened social isolation for so many older adults. million aged 65+ have home broadband. Older adults and broadband in 2021. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Older adults need to get and stay connected via broadband. Broadband enables signing up for vaccine appointments, finding home care, getting meals delivered, learning a skill, seeing family members, and finding a job. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living , Home Care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The first eye-opener was the OATS/Humana report about the 22 million adults 65+ who lack home broadband. Boosting tech access to devices and broadband is a 2021 requirement. category tags: computers, internet and social networking. More programs are emerging to get older adults to tech parity.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

Certainly ccess has improved: Ninety-five percent of Americans use the Internet and more than 80% have broadband at home. For years device and software tech ‘improved’ to a point of widespread optimism about our tech future. Today there are numerous programs to subsidize access, and smartphone penetration has exceeded 92%.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 17, 2019

As brick-and-mortar based businesses dwindle in favor of online, access to smartphone and broadband are becoming the enablers of information flow to older adults. Non-users, particularly broadband, are thus on one side of the so-called digital divide. Home broadband – that enabler of streaming – is also up to 59% of the 65+.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2022

category tags: wearables, smart watch , smartphones , computers, broadband, and social networking. By 2021, that had dropped to 26%. And that is also born out by Pew survey , and no surprise -- that age is the biggest determinant. . . . . . . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Community, state (see California’s $50 million for technology access for older adults and people with disabilities), national (see NIA Johns Hopkins AI and Aging $20 million ) or broadband (see federal $826 million for broadband in Colorado ).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 17, 2020

Their latest surveys about smartphone and broadband, as with the Caregiver study, were completed in 2019. As for broadband adoption, 73% of the 65+ in the last survey in 2019 were broadband users, though likely fewer in the upper age decades. More technology changes have followed and are anticipated moving forward.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

The lack of broadband access among older adults is worrisome in these days of online-only vaccine registration. When the 2022 surveys of broadband access for the 65+ are published, will the numbers be much higher? New government efforts are underway to offer cheaper broadband -- will older adults participate? Stay tuned.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Older adults need to get and stay connected via broadband. Broadband enables signing up for vaccine appointments, finding home care, getting meals delivered, learning a skill, seeing family members, and finding a job. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living , Home Care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF).

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Do the oldest have Broadband access? Although a telehealth visit can be held via a phone call or FaceTime today, eventually its use will require more secure tools and likely will require broadband or a smartphone. According to Pew Research’s 2019 survey, 59% of the 65+ have broadband in the home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2023

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 And just in time. [

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

category tags: Scams -- all types , social media , computers, broadband, and social networking , AgeTech As with scam calls, the scam innovators are way ahead of the FTC – and $25K to them looks like chump change. Meanwhile, who is the target audience for spam, scams and the next wave of innovation to prey on them? Older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2023

In addition to the government-supported discount on broadband access, the report recommended “uture-focused tools and assistive technology, such as smart homes, wearable blood pressure and heart monitoring devices, automated pill dispensers, e-learning modules, task management apps, speech amplification and adaptation systems, and geo-tracking.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

category tags: smartphones , privacy, security , seniors and aging policy , computers, broadband, and social networking And now a warning that to continue, Google will share your name, email address, language preference and profile picture with the news site where you are already a subscriber. We are back to the beginning.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 9, 2020

The average cost of broadband in the USA is $60/month. Using the most recent data, home broadband adoption drops off notably in the upper age ranges, down to 59% of the 65+, though surveying of the older age ranges is infrequent. category tags: covid-19 , Aging technology , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , smartphones, cell phones.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

Their latest surveys about smartphone and broadband, as with the Caregiver study, were completed in 2019. As for broadband adoption, 73% of the 65+ in the last survey in 2019 were broadband users, though likely fewer in the upper age decades. T echnology Adoption – Pew Research. Technology Adoption -- AARP.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Many of us may think of the typical telehealth consumer as one who owns a high-end video-enabled smartphone and lives in neighborhoods with ubiquitous broadband access. Where does my consumer live? The much-discussed "digital divide" should disabuse us of this notion.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2023

category tags: social media , computers, broadband, and social networking , AI and machine learning In the future will we be overwhelmed with choices of AI interactions – not unlike meeting and calendar tools that are driven by – wait for it – people who make these choices to their own advantage?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Many stakeholders have noted the importance of expanding access to broadband as a fundamental necessity – an endeavor that may run up, as Federal Office of Rural Health Senior Adviser for Telehealth William England put it , a "hundreds-of-billion-dollar" price tag.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The 2022 FCC broadband progress map revealed the geographic areas of the US that lack high speed Internet access, and even if it were available, many do not go online, whether due to perceived lack of benefit, high cost, or low awareness. To reach older adults and their families, one go-to-market channel is not enough.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones. Then update it periodically, with more questions, better answers. Thoughts welcome. NOTE: Check out the 2022 Technology for Aging Market Overview ].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2023

category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones Finally, when all else fails, they get in the car and go to the bank if it is within driving distance – even if it is a bank with an armed guard at the front door.

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