Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The original Lifeline was a pendant device connected to a box (Communicator) in the user’s home. They then persisted with a Medication dispensing device that has been eclipsed by others, including pharmacy-connected MedMinder and Amazon-owned Pillpack. Philips made mistakes with Lifeline – creating technology openings.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Note that falls can be detected in a home without a wearable – via a wall-mounted device or through in-home Wi-Fi. Devices will be designed to enable easier and more comfortable mobility outside the home – and identify accessible locations. With enough data, future health risks, including falls, should be predictable.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

A smart lamp that hangs on the wall and anticipates and prevents falls of residents in assisted living and nursing facilities, Aladin uses artificial intelligence (not sensors) to detect changes in motion, temperature, and more. If a low-impact fall is detected, only a user's pre-designated support community is contacted.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 24, 2019

The more thin gs change… Who would have thought that fall detection would be added to a hearing aid ? Or that Apple would produce a watch with built-in fall detection, automatically activated for the 65+ ? Well, by itself, “fall detection” is not yet a market category hit. So where are we today?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The promoters of the standard, intended to make the vision of the smart home, with easily connected devices, a reality. Will that make it easier to use sensors, and therefore make it more appealing? And their history has been primarily as alerting devices – with too many false notifications and too easily ignored.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Using high-precision sensors and our algorithm technology, the palm-size device is placed under one wheel or leg of the bed. Toch Sleepsense is uniquely designed to detect body movement and vital signs no matter where the sleeper is positioned. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , AgeTech , smartphones, cellphones

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

In-home care, home health care , remote patient monitoring (RPM) , fall detection , and other services that help older adults age in their homes are critical. Fall-detection sensors have come a long way since they were first introduced in the last decade. Sensor technology shrinks and changes form for health care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The time is right for engaging with an AI-powered avatar for health advice, including assisting with fall prevention. The program aims to reduce falls and offer insight into factors contributing to increased fall occurrences. Here are five more from 2023, all text from the company websites.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 6, 2022

There seems to be a growing number of tech offerings that can see, sense, detect, and learn about behavioral patterns as part of new tools for older adults and their caregivers. The fall video clips are blurred to protect privacy and can be reviewed to allow a post-fall evaluation. The process takes less than two minutes.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Last week they announced two features of a new watch, ECG monitoring and fall detection. In this new watch, both the ECG feature and fall detection have received FDA clearance within 30 days of applying, startling some observers who noted that closer to 150 days was more typical for a medical device.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

For the market of technology for older adults, it offered a smartwatch with built-in fall detection and other numerous health features, which it continues to introduce. And connecting these devices could be useful to senior living organizations trying to differentiate based on their technology services.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Remote monitoring and telemedicine: AI-powered sensors and wearable devices can monitor vital signs, activity levels, and sleep patterns of seniors in real-time. This data can be analyzed to detect any abnormalities or changes in health, enabling early interventions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Will all devices default to ‘Accessibility’ and security options that you must undo, rather than the other way around? . Voice interfaces will migrate to be expected infrastructure in smart displays and apps, added to every feasible appliance, device, and vehicle. Could training be more readily found?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

By June 2021, they partnered with Black&Decker to offer more PERS capabilities – a wearable with fall detection, but maybe that lacked a wow factor. With deep pockets, Medical Guardian can afford to develop its own device – and maybe this one's the charm for current customers.

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JUNE 1, 2022

The US News site was not an ad itself, but the article was filled with ads for devices. There were only 900 searches for ‘Personal Emergency Response System’ – which is what the device actually is. Oddly, RPM seems to be the one offering not detectable on the Medical Guardian website. Ditto ‘ConsumerAffairs.com.’

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But adding fall detection as a feature for the 65+ in Apple Health and the watch was a change. Because the technology, even Apple’s, is not intuitive, because the devices connect to the rest of the infrastructure in a community, support is required. Can it be that the majority of Apple’s are young women ? See vendor empathy.

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MARCH 2, 2022

Today, Bluetooth connectivity to mobile devices like smartphones enables data from blood pressure cuffs, weight scales, and blood glucose monitors to be transmitted to providers’ systems. . These services can be delivered through technology bundles (devices, software) from a growing number of technology vendors. How is RPM delivered?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

While Philips auctions its innovation-free Lifeline business – others offer caregiver watches that provide a less visible, more useful safety alternative when living alone, walking the dog, or afraid of falling. However, 2021 will produce progress in multi-wake word detection , even a bit of interoperability across platforms.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

Toch Sleepsense is a non-contact sleep monitoring device, easily placed under the foot of a bed that is uniquely designed to detect when a person exits the bed. Tellus. “We’ve built an AI-enabled device that is non-contact (no wearables or cameras) and smart. Toch Sleepsense. Learn more at Toch Technologies.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

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. That created revenue growth for Apple, but also more opportunity for Apple watch-based competitors like Fall Call Solutions. Standards for consumer tech benefit older adults.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In recent years, TV Remote control devices became more usable – except for Apple’s. You gotta love a company with a device so devoid of buttons – and so easily off the rails with an accidental touch. Why are these devices called senior remotes? The stats on death from falls are startling – especially for the 65+.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

And it’s fall detection validated the market transition of caregiving smart watches replacing PERS pendants. We want to turn on a ‘voice first’ device and have it welcome – not abuse us. Okay, we deal with all this because we love to talk to devices. Simplicity – once the firm’s motto – got lost in translation.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Or to put the question another way, what is it that these devices do that can help maintain or improve health, noting that 32% of baby boomers today get no exercise whatsoever , according to the CDC. Are you walking, running, swimming or doing an exercise that devices can detect as motion -- and even count, as with steps?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 25, 2018

Consider that April offered up the winners of the Stanford Design Challenge – a computer-integrated bicycle handle with blind spot warning and fall detection and emergency alert. Theora Connect™ is a wristwatch-style monitoring and communication device. Theora Care Solutions. Theora Link™ is a powerful smartphone application.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Sixty-two percent of US adults as of January 2023 are using voice assistants on any device (including in-car, in-ear, at-drive-thru). But the pivotal entrance of Apple’s fall detection legitimized the market for caregiving smart watch wearables with fall detection. Voice assistants and hearing aids.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Not just because of the calendar, but because of the pace of return to California dreamer and tech breathless launches and device announcements , Facebook’s 50 million user data breach – the usual. Last week they announced two features of a new watch, ECG monitoring and fall detection. Still with me? Still with me?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If there was a key trend in all of this racket, Sleep has become a tech obsession, the uptake of Digital Health is almost here, new variants of companions and assistants were pervasive, including Google Assistant inside everything ad Amazon voice devices everywhere. The Apple Watch and fall detection -- what about it?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

This innovative technology allows users, including those with mobility impairments, to control devices such as phones, tablets, smart home devices, and wheelchairs through simple movements, revolutionizing the way they interact with technology and the world around them.” Learn more. Concha Labs. Learn more. Learn more. Nobi Ceiling.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Addison monitors your activity, reminds you to take medications and verifies adherence and provides real-time assessments if a client develops evidence of increased risk of falling or health decline. We change this by monitoring the fall risk of elderly continuously through our solution ALMA Home. Learn more at Electronic Caregiver.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2020

Each of those devices is enabled for older adults by either more targeted marketing and packaging, enabling software, or bundling into training and solutions for in-home caregiving and/or healthcare. Consumers can also request a virtual house call where a tech expert remotely connects to their device to solve the issue for them.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 10, 2019

These remain to be validated, but between the smarter homes and the smart devices, we are heading into another wave of innovation. HandsFree Health's WellBe, is a secure, HIPAA compliant in-home voice-activated device that speaks when spoken to. Will older adults be comfortable with them? Learn more at Safely-You. StaySmartCare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Are you walking, running, swimming or doing an exercise that devices can detect as motion—and even count, as with steps? Getting assistance matters: Help you get help if you fall. Fall detection has been a feature of wearable Personal Emergency Response Pendants (or Medical Alerts) for the past decade.

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MARCH 31, 2021

We can track any device, any person, anywhere in the world. Our elderly devices come equipped with heart rate monitors, fall detection and GPS - taking care of our elders has never been easier." category tags: digital health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home , medication management. MoviWear. "

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

Finally, the smartwatch, aka personal emergency response device, gets another entrant – and the very first mobile PERS ('medical alert') company, Mobile Help , is acquired. By June 2021, they partnered with Black&Decker to offer more PERS capabilities – a wearable with fall detection, but maybe that lacked a wow factor.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2019

Addison monitors your activity, reminds you to take medications and verifies adherence and provides real-time assessments if a client develops evidence of increased risk of falling or health decline. We change this by monitoring the fall risk of elderly continuously through our solution ALMA Home. Learn more at Electronic Caregiver.

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Digital Health 77

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2020

The average PERS wearer is still an 82-year-old woman, likely living alone, which is why PERS devices are useful in the first place. And removing the watch feature, various wrist-worn wearables have fall detection and a call center – such as Alert1 's device or the Lively Wearable 2 (used with smartphone).

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APRIL 10, 2019

This is in an era where hearing aids have evolved to incorporate embedded AI, fall detection, direct connections for phone calls, and numerous other features and functions. category tags: hearing loss , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging , seniors and aging policy. They’ are audiologists. Seriously? Ditto prosthetics.

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