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Technology to help care for individuals with dementia

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The chances are good that their family member can remain at home through early stages, even continuing to live alone Even after a diagnosis, they'll continue to wonder whether it really is dementia and look for another test they can do at home. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline. Adult day centers. Memory care.

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2018-2019 look back and ahead at tech buzz, hope, and hype

Aging in Place Technology Watch

2018 was a big year for disruption in the hearing technology sector following a big change in regulatory terminology at the FDA and a win for consumers who may prefer self-service hearing tests, self-fitting of lower priced hearing aids, and self-service adjustments. Hearing technology got an upgrade and a lower price.

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Living to 100 – will technology matter – and for whom?

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Engagement, cognitive, wander management wearables. Improved cognitive function, lower risk of injury to wanderers. Self-testing websites, OTC hearing aids, amplifiers/hearables. category tags: baby boomers , Seniors , aging in place. Wearables, remote patient monitoring.

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Five Health and Aging Tech Posts from May 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Or creating a folding phone (without much testing) with a screen that breaks within days of announcement. category tags: VR/AR technology , cell phones, smartphones , tablets. Why did it not have a mouse in the first place? Oh, yes, and it is an accessibility feature. Still no headphone jack on the phone. Read more. .

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Building a digitally accessible front door to the NHS

Digital Leaders HealthTech

To meet these assisted needs, we test features with a screen reader which reads content aloud; test font-size changes within the app and ensure colour contrast throughout the app is correct. In the first phase of the project, we generated a spreadsheet to cover all WCAG testing requirements that were relevant.

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Ten Technology Offerings From CES 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

A robotics company, Intuition Robotics, launches its cognitive AI Q’ for 3 rd party companies to use as a digital companion agent, for example, in a car. category tags: hearing loss , vision and vision technology , CES 2019 , PERS , Mobile PERS , Family caregivers. Learn more at Essence. EyeQue Vision Tracker. Learn more at Widex.

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Ten Technology Offerings From CES 2019 - Beyond Gadgets

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A robotics company, Intuition Robotics, launches its cognitive AI Q’ for 3 rd party companies to use as a digital companion agent, for example, in a car. category tags: hearing loss , vision and vision technology , CES 2019 , PERS , Mobile PERS , Family caregivers. Learn more at Essence. EyeQue Vision Tracker. Learn more at Widex.