Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the so-called digital health technology categories. . But the tech has changed – now sensors offer non-wearable, Wi-Fi and room-based fall detection (even in a steam shower). Smart displays and interfaces will be ubiquitous.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

Some folks think this is a consumer show, but that was the long-ago Consumer Electronics Show. eSight is a wearable assistive technology that allows people living with visual impairments to stay on the go while performing the tasks of daily living. Today it is just CES 2024 and it is really a B2B(2B2B) event. Learn more.

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Digital Health 139

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Wearables became more visible – on the wrist and in the market. The Apple Watch Series 4 disrupted the senior wearables market with its built-in ECG and fall detection, as well as Apple’s partnership with insurers. But for the general consumer marketplace, there is some optimism about flip phones and the potential comeback.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2023

Though with its initial user calculation at 100 million, it now appears the fastest growing ‘consumer’ application in history. Some of these grants will fund projects to determine best practices in care, some new technology for care, including wearables, and some researching new processes to help older adults age in their own home.

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Medical Billing 131

Lloyd Price

MAY 29, 2023

High price: Google Glass was initially priced at $1,500, which was much more expensive than other wearable devices on the market. In addition to these reasons, Google Glass also faced challenges from other wearable devices, such as smartwatches and fitness trackers. In 2015, Google discontinued the consumer version of Google Glass.

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Nursing 81

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 7, 2019

How do wearables contribute to health and wellbeing of older adults? Did something happen recently propelling sales up 51% that pushed consumers out the door to buy a wearable, like a fitness band or a smartwatch? Today’s wearables have functions that are relevant because they: Measure your heart rate.

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 107

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The press releases for next week’s 2023 Consumer Electronics Show are stacking up. OTC (Over-the-Counter) Hearing Aids approved for sale direct to consumers. And Google has embedded the very smart Google Assistant into wearables, including machine learning built into Fitbits and Pixels.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the Digital Health technology categories. . category tags: home health care , smart home , IoT and home monitoring , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology , AgeTech. Smart displays and voice first interfaces will be ubiquitous.

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Remote care Digital Health Health Technology Telehealth 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

DETECT THE FALLS: Detect without a wearable. Until the past few years, fall detection has been linked to the PERS market – pendants, and now wearables that have built-in accelerometers for fall detection. The actual change was implemented on October 17 after five months of mystifying bureaucratic delay. Stay tuned!].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

As 2023 began, tech vendors used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to launch a gaggle of gadgets, not solutions, to mitigate life barriers from hearing loss to limited mobility. But the pivotal entrance of Apple’s fall detection legitimized the market for caregiving smart watch wearables with fall detection.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Pajama-like clothing is the only way to consume the content vastness of this entirely online Consumer Electronics Show with 500 exhibits, 70,000 registered attendees, and 3 full days of sessions, many pre-recorded, some live. Laptops were hot (remember the Ultrabook?) Voice First and the Apple Watch had not emerged. iCardioGuard.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

What about a call for help without a wearable? This past year, the firm added 80,000 health-related terms to help answer consumer questions. category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. That could work with appropriate configuration of responders. Amazon in healthcare.

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HIPAA Digital Health Telehealth 164

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

consumers in 2024.” U ltra-lightweight walking assist wearable robot that aims to promote healthy living through daily walking exercise. category tags: AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline , robotics , hearables/hearing technology Nobi also announced plans to bring its full line of smart lamps directly to U.S. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Consider this understatement from Jennifer Kent of Parks: "Consumers clearly desire a self-help approach first but need more effective tools to solve the problems on their own." category tags: IoT and home monitoring , SNF , seniors and aging policy , AI and machine learning. And they become frustrated.

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Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

Through the use of wearables and near real-time data and analytics, Reemo connects wearers and families, while helping caregivers and healthcare organizations improve patient experiences and outcomes. cleared, clinical grade wearable EKG. Learn more at Oticon. ReemoHealth Remote Mobile Health Platform. Learn more at Reemo Health.

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mHealth Mobile Health Patient Experience Nursing 111

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

Is telehealth done, long live healthcare? McKinsey consumer sentiments research indicates 35% of home healthcare visits post-COVID could become virtual visits, using remote care technologies that will be HIPAA compliant, noting that three-fourths of consumers surveyed are interested. Health-related technology adoption.

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Remote care Telehealth HIPAA Medicare 89

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Meanwhile, The older adult technology market is still comprised of four main categories , into which the new entrants and inventions, including wearables, sensors, AI, and predictive analytics, will fit. Here are the blog posts from August for consideration: Wearables for Health and Wellbeing. What to make of all this? Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 20, 2021

For people with mild low vision, reading fatigue, reading difficulties including dyslexia, and for anyone who consumes large amounts of text. This week, eyewear company VOY Glasses, was awarded the 2021 Innovation Award in Wearable Technology at the prestigious Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for its Tunable Eyeglasses.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

This AHCA observation was that the revised Five Star system would cause a slip in ratings , which would lead to consumer confusion, etc., Add tablets for residents and support camera-enabled tech for family chats, and consider wearables to better monitor health status. category tags: Seniors , SNF , senior living.

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Nursing 110

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

At the end of April, ninety million US adults were estimated to own smart speakers , one-third of consumers. Tech firms that think they are in the 'Voice First' industry need to adjust to being in the broader tech industry that includes telehealth, sensors, smartphones, wearables, smart televisions, and caregiving software.

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Remote care Telehealth Patient Experience Nursing 120

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2018

For consumers and professionals, consider the role of: Amplified TV Sound, amplified phones, and visual indicators. Consumer Reports recently updated its recommendations for improving TV sound , for those with some hearing loss. Already making their way, these offerings are in the Canadian market.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The growing cost of providing in-person care will be an impetus for delivering more care remotely, including digital health technologies for diagnosis and remote monitoring, the use of wearables like smart watches or other jewelry to sense a problem like a fall and alert others. (See Wearables, remote patient monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Revolutionize Conference in Boston which was highlighted by the reveal of Venture Capital investor Dominic Endicott's $2 Trillion Age-Tech market size, making the Consumer Technology Association's $29 Billion look cautious. You are increasingly likely to have a wearable -- around your neck or on your wrist. Read more. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Happy New Year – and onward to 2020, the publication of the now-completed Voice, Health and Wellbeing 2020 on Monday, January 6 th , and so many more (and counted) CES steps -- more wearables, virtual experiences, smart and not-so-smart speakers. See you there! Ten Technology Offerings from CES 2019 – Beyond Gadgets. Don't laugh, though.

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Digital Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 20, 2021

For people with mild low vision, reading fatigue, reading difficulties including dyslexia, and for anyone who consumes large amounts of text. This week, eyewear company VOY Glasses, was awarded the 2021 Innovation Award in Wearable Technology at the prestigious Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for its Tunable Eyeglasses.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2019, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has sized the 'active aging' technology market as reaching $29.8 Sensors continue to shrink , doorbells have acquired brains , health-smart wearables are helping seniors better manage chronic conditions. billion by 2022 -- the year the oldest baby boomer turns 76.

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 81

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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Health Technology 59

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. category tags: hearing loss , Voice First/AI technology , wearables, smart watch , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The visibility of Facebook management issues and Google competitive quagmire may actually be good for consumers. Gadgets, yes, too many smart wearables, including underwear, too many near misses of being run over by gangs of oblivious young guys staring at their phones.

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 77

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Joyoti Goswami COVID-19 has spurred telehealth and remote patient monitoring adoption across the United States, with 36 percent of the US consumers now using telehealth to replace healthcare visits. Today, many health devices and wearables are hitting the market, but not all are approved by the CMS for reimbursement.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Some folks think this is a consumer show, but that was the long-ago Consumer Electronics Show. category tags: AgeTech , AI and machine learning , smartphones; wearables , baby boomers So many entrants in the AgeTech, accessibility and health categories seek visibility and possible global reach.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Connected health devices run the gamut from wearable heart monitors, to Bluetooth-enabled scales, to Fitbits. The platform uses AI and machine learning that combines sensor data from the wearable with the patient’s medical history to create a unique profile that is updated in real time throughout the monitoring period.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

gadgets, yes, too many smart wearables, including underwear, too many near misses of being run over by gangs of oblivious young guys staring at their phones. The EyeQue VisionCheck is the world’s first automated optical refraction device built for consumers to measure and track their refractive error and order eyeglasses with the results.”

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Digital Health 107

Lloyd Price

AUGUST 28, 2021

According to a leaked memo, Google is dissolving its single unified health division and reassigning all consumer and enterprise projects across myriad teams internally, consisting of 570 employees. Next, we come to arguably the biggest reason big tech companies are not succeeding in healthcare.

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EHR 90

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

Gadgets, yes, too many smart wearables, including underwear, too many near misses of being run over by gangs of oblivious young guys staring at their phones. The EyeQue VisionCheck is the world’s first automated optical refraction device built for consumers to measure and track their refractive error and order eyeglasses with the results.”

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Digital Health 53

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2021

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? Today or soon you will launch a boomer/senior, home care offering, wearable product or a new service to help seniors or other new market entrants.

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Health Technology 80