Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

Along came a gaggle of gadgets for the wrist, including Medical Guardian’s, but also Verizon’s Care Smart watch – teen-focused and largely disliked by reviewers, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 with fall detection , the Garmin Lily (with fall detection) , HandsFree Health Smartwatch , BestBuy Lively app for Apple Watch , UnaliWear Kanega , and many more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 7, 2019

Checking for heart arrhythmia is an even newer feature of wearables, and is included in the Apple Watch Series 4 and likely in a future Samsung Galaxy Watch Active. category tags: wearables, smart watch , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. Electrocardiogram (ECG). Examples where it was helpful have already been noted. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2018

But what about 50% discount an iPhone or Galaxy S9 – to get them into the 21 st century of their grandchildren, assuming that other infrastructure is available to help them (in-store training, upgrade assistance, and on and on.) . For all of the Real Seniors to be, now’s the time to tech-enable their future, don’t you think?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Checking for heart arrythmia is an even newer feature of wearables, and is included in the Apple Watch Series 4 and likely in a future Samsung Galaxy Watch Active. category tags: wearables, smart watch , Mobile PERS. Provide an Electrocardiogram (ECG).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2018

category tags: Seniors , seniors and aging policy , computers, internet and social networking , cell phones, smartphones. No, I am not talking about the cell phone plans. Senior discounts are offered in at least 180 categories of services and products today, including cell phone plans.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Back 20 years ago, there seemed to be an expectation that when a clinician recorded some fact, they would also tag that fact with a sensitivity tag. Thus when an access request was made these tags could be inspected by the access control engine to determine if the data could be accessed by the individual requesting access.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 7, 2018

Also, let’s assume that the millions of Galaxy S6, S8 and S9 owners have all downloaded Google Assistant – a very clever Voice First app that has a bigger search breadth than the Echo product line, or at the very least, is scoring well at answering somewhat geo-specific or fairly dopey questions. An assistant makes a smartphone smarter.

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