Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

Technology usage has climbed sharply during Covid-19. Pew Research notes 53% of responders in April consider the Internet as ‘Essential’ – although, no surprise, the oldest did not. In addition, telehealth usage has skyrocketed, with virtual doctor visits expected by Forrester Research to top 1 billion by years end.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally. Digital enterprise vaccination management platforms will have to be built to inform the public, schedule vaccinations, automate mobile facilities, monitor outcomes and manage the supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 7, 2020

Consider interesting the behavior of ‘leaders’ during the time of Covid-19. It turns out that most (66%) of hospitalizations with Covid-19 in New York were people who had been staying at home, the majority retired or unemployed and over age 51. category tags: Aging , Seniors , social isolation , social media.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

And seniors (AARP) who are most likely NOT in nursing homes, demand that workers have adequate PPE , that the public be notified which nursing homes have cases of Covid-19, workers are striking at nursing homes , and so on. 65 is the new 85 – Covid-19 cultivates elements of ageism. Go back to 2019, for just a moment.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, tech nice-to-haves have become critical. Since the Covid spring, high-dollar government initiatives for seniors have been launched, and others from prior years received an update. Between boosting the deployment of telehealth technologies, once-delayed initiatives became instantly late.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As the research interviews for the 2020 report “Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults” wind down, a few themes become apparent. This work began in the summer of 2020 as the Covid-19 lockdown was underway. What is the status and future of remote care technologies?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 14, 2021

Pew Research just published its periodic survey about Internet use. But as one can imagine in the time of Covid-19, much can change in a year. . category tags: Technology - AARP , computers, internet and social networking. Let’s assume consensus that growing the percentage of those using the Internet was a social good.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 15, 2020

Saving seniors from Covid-19 requires worsening isolation. OneClick.chat. " Research funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) has shaped the design of our products, making them easy for older adults to use. category tags: social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. Learn more at Pocket-Lint. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

In addition, digital solutions enabled strong links to be created between health and research, providing valuable understanding of the impact of coronavirus, including treatment pathways and mortality. These included data from the RCGP research and surveillance centre which saw the number of participating practices double.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 17, 2020

In March, the government announced expansion of telehealth access , noting that it would raise the reimbursement rate for telehealth visits during the Covid-19 pandemic to match the doctor’s rate for in person visits, as Seema Verma, the head of CMS noted: ‘the genie was let out of the bottle’ and won’t likely be put back in.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 30, 2020

Dive Brief: The financial impact on primary care practices due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been profound and will likely continue in the months ahead, according to a new study published in Health Affairs. Although visits are expected to have rebounded by June, volumes are still below pre-COVID-19 levels.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

People imagined that post-Covid-19, technology would become much more compelling in all types of care delivery. Researchers are beginning to notice the potential in the care of older adults, including the assertion that " Smart clothing is more natural to wear compared to the other wearables and covers a wider area for monitoring."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

What has been the impact on them of the daily onslaught of Covid-19 statistics? 2020 Research Reports – A Recap. So 2020 was a year that produced 5 white papers and three long research reports emerge – normally not feasible with so much here-and-there travel. What about nine months of ceaseless updates about case counts?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

The growth has been tracked most recently in survey samples that compared the most recent with prior time periods: AARP surveyed 2063 and Pew Research surveyed 1502 adult s. That was posted in November of 2021, with surveying ending in 2020 (just before Covid-19) and was made available within the last month.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2022

AARP Public Policy research in 2013 revealed a future crisis in availability of people to care for an aging population (“You take care of Mom, but who will take care of you?”). Covid-19 fear caused families to pull many of the elderly out of senior living to live at home, avoiding the virus as much as possible. [See

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Researchers want to understand how best to create a voice assistant. The goal of the research was to understand the influence of personal voice assistants on loneliness reduction in older adults. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , senior living. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

August in the time of Covid-19. This includes writing market research documents (blogs, white papers, reports) about the categories that can help position them in comparison to each other and new entrants. So much has changed in recent months as a result of Covid-19 -- startling changes that previously were incremental.

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MeMD

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A 2017 survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute/Greenwald & Associates showed that millennials rated virtual care as “extremely or very important” to their choice of medical provider. The rise in mental health conditions alongside COVID-19 is being billed a dual pandemic. But this isn’t new news.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

A few weeks ago the World Health Organisation (WHO) commended the UAE for leading the way in COVID-19 by conducting the highest level of testing per million in the world, which is an effective strategy of keeping track of the virus, which is pertinent to knowing the necessary measures to take in combating the epidemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health and RPM are more important than ever, because they enable physicians to monitor patients without having to come into contact with them, thus preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

For instance, researchers found higher rates of cardiovascular diseases and poor outcomes among people today whose neighborhoods were redlined in the 1930s. The nonprofit Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded a roundtable on sharing SDoH data, organized and led by the Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

But since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency, our organization has expanded its telehealth capabilities. The survey consisted of one question: Considering the current COVID-19 pandemic, would you prefer a virtual visit (video or phone) or an in-person/in-clinic visit? Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 7, 2021

There has been bias built into dependence on smartphone data during Covid-19. From a Stanford/Carnegie Mellon study: “ particular groups of people, including older and nonwhite U.S. According to Pew Research, as of April 2021 , only 61% of the 65+ population owned a smartphone. The explanation?

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

To further that, I commit to improving the alignment of questions people ask and the available research. of our four-part series, we introduced Carlos, an ICU nurse treating COVID-19 patients. He struggles to manage COVID-19 and life outside of the hospital with his sister and mother. Who needs a COVID-19 test?

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