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Six recent Voice/Conversational AI innovations for older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The pilot study of 16 adults aged 75 or more years and living alone in an independent living community used an Amazon Echo device for eight weeks. Atria Senior Living – Echo Shows throughout selected communities. The Amazon Echo Show devices will then be installed at selected Atria and Coterie communities during 2022 and beyond."

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Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018

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The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by pre-conference Voice Health summit , task forces , and even onstage singing by health tech folk that may wish they were in show business. Learn more at Coral Health. Learn more at Groove Health.

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Five Health and Aging Blog Posts from August 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

We get pretty excited when a new venture firm starts up in the US that focuses on older adults. That makes at least three US VC firms, including Generator Ventures and Linkage Ventures, that acknowledge the older adult technology market, let alone fund early stage entrants.

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With Fewer Family Caregivers, What’s the (Tech-Enabled) Plan?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The Age Wave study, as do many journalists, combines home care (non-skilled, or ‘companion’) with home health care ( higher level of training and certification and refers to all as 'home health care.' . Or did Amazon (and Google) solve that with its line of Echo devices, reminders, notifications, and drop-in calls?

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Recapping the most-read blog posts from 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

And investors have regularly run screaming from the ‘older adult’ category, preferring to view the whole bucket as ‘health’. Interestingly in a later survey, those with Amazon Echo or Google Home devices and apps used their smartphones less. Ten technologies from the 2018 Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit (June, 2018).

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