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Our future tech interactions mandate personalized user experiences

Aging in Place Technology Watch

For market researchers, there are many data-driven ways to gauge consumer preferences today, and tech companies can chose among surveys, interviews, focus groups and customer observation. We will expect that our profile will drive technology access. The min dset of ‘get the product out the door’ sets the stage for poor user experience.

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The Tech Support Chasm -- tough to cross for older adults

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Parks Associates' update this week is illuminating. Figure 1 Reasons for Returning Smart Home Devices Source: Parks Associates 02-23-2023 Who provides support for the hapless user? Surveyed older adults struggle with technology they own in 2023. GetSetUp offers multiple volunteer sessions and a broad range of technology topics.

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Challenging Innovators to Design for Older Adults: 2014 -2024

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It was published in June of 2014 in conjunction with a Venture Summit event run by Mary Furlong and Associates. Or believing that a direct to consumer approach was affordable or scalable – before the broad adoption of social-media based marketing or the introduction of Conversational AI. Ten years later.

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Looking ahead to 2023 -- what should we expect?

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Observe that despite the hysteria over Amazon layoffs , voice technology has passed its hype cycle and is now present and utilized in at least 95 million US households. Here’s hoping that 2023 makes tech installation and integration easy for families and consumers. Caregiving technology trends. Check it out !].

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Why did FDA Approval Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids Take So Long?

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Some of the technology found in the pricier prescription aids will be available in the cheaper OTC aids.” What took the FDA (5 years) so long to get to final review of essentially the same technology available in 2017, especially when they were ordered by Congress to do so? category tags: hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology.

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Voice First Technology and Older Adults – Three Years Later

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A re-read shows how excited the 31 interviewees and participants were, offering their vision of the future of this technology and its potential use by older adults. Has the future arrived for the technologists who invented Voice First and the broad market of consumers who bought and benefited, from the early days? As for ease of use?

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Did you miss one of four November 2022 blog posts? Check them out!

Aging in Place Technology Watch

November was an interesting month in the technology industry. Over the last few years, a growing number of applications of AI and machine learning have entered the market of caregiving technology for older adults. The cost of long-term care. Ask yourself, what care delivery has seen an uptake in technology adoption?