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. Voice assistants and hearing aids. In addition to lower cost, hearing aids will increasingly be covered by popular Medicare Advantage plans.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Hearing technology markets will be further disrupted in 2021. As it did in 2020, new hearing aids will make use of machine learning to enhance the quality of sound for the wearer. Lower cost hearing aid options including financing alternatives are now part of the mix.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What technologies can help mitigate this growing labor crisis in the senior care (home care, home health care, senior living, long-term-care) services market? HEAR A VOICE: Listen and serve an appropriate response. HEAR BETTER WITH OTC HEARING AIDS: Sell directly to those in need. AT THE EDGE: Alert without Wi-Fi.

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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. . Hearing technology markets will be further disrupted in 2021. Lower cost hearing aid options including financing alternatives, are now part of the mix.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Here are a few useful to older adults, alphabetical from firm sites: AbsoluteAudio’s PYOUR Audio Hearing 2.0. This comprehensive software suite is built up from a range of proprietary algorithms, destined at restoring speech understanding and best music experience for people su ffering from hearing damage or hearing loss.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2024

Two weeks ago, VIVE in Los Angeles , "The Only Digital Health Event Focused on You" was attended by 8000 people there to hear 300 speakers on topics of interest to payers, providers, and those interested in consumer health. Consider the recent big healthcare events. HIMSS this week – the website says it best: Now HIMSS.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

While Concha Labs hearing aids must be FDA approved before being sold in the United States, the combined technology and discreet profile of this product presents some exciting possibilities. Many similar hearing aids have preset sound profiles, but this is the most emphasis we’ve seen on actually making your own.” Concha Labs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2024

Consider death of a spouse, divorce, illness, disability, loss of vision or hearing. Now consider a future in which you ask for the best way to do just about anything, including managing minor health symptoms or locating. This 2014 Challenging Innovators report has withstood the test of a decade.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2024

Please take a look, forwarding the link if appropriate, and offer any feedback to help improve this and future versions: 2024 Market Overview Technology for Aging category tags: AI and machine learning , digital health , Mobile PERS , Remote monitoring , hearables/hearing technology , vision and vision technology

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

BellPal , Freedom Guardian , Bay Alarm Medical , UnaliWear , HandsFree Health , FallCall Lite (Apple) – connect to a required response center. The hearing technology market is seeing disruption from multiple angles. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , AI , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Mobile PERS.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

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. AARP recently surveyed the health impact (that’s good), but not the cost of correcting hearing loss. Looking at the Hearing Tracker survey demographics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

" As health systems adjusted to dramatic increases in virtual visits, they experienced a steep learning curve in a very short time. The most mature health systems recognize the importance of context and design their telehealth programs accordingly. For most health systems, telehealth is work-in-progress at best.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The US Food and Drug Administration approved the over-the-counter sale of hearing aids. The big five hearing aid manufacturers will once again remake and remarket themselves, their brands and pricing to fit the new rule. Home Health Care Services experienced an even larger increase – 50.5% -- during the same period."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Consider what’s happened with over the counter hearing aids, now available in kiosks at retailers like Walmart and Rite Aid. But all that is just a beginning – early January brings the Consumer Electronics Show and many more innovations that can help older adults with health, mobility, cognitive issues, and caregiving.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

This past week, Cambia Health released a survey of caregivers, 64% of surveyed caregivers use at least one digital tool to help them with caregiving. The hearing technology market is seeing disruption from multiple angles. AARP published a new report that showed growing interest in technology among those aged 70+.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. We regularly hear that caregivers appreciate when their operator invests in technology to support resident happiness.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

And for hearing aid wearers, the smartphone can carry multiple apps that improve their quality of life. In an interview with Best Buy Health for their 800,000 recipient newsletter, these were the 7 trends we identified that will persist throughout the year -- and beyond. Hearing aid users need smartphones and apps.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2023

That grant's participating universities include Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon University, Oregon State University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Oregon Health & Science University – sponsored by Microsoft and Google. And just in time. [

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

Here are the four July posts: Hearing loss: Covid-19 sharpens the benefits of teleaudiology. Half of those aged 75+ and one-third of the 65+ have hearing loss. Cambia Health released a survey of caregivers, 64% of surveyed caregivers use at least one digital tool to help them with caregiving.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Voice to text helps those with diminished hearing. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , wearables, smart watch , IoT and home monitoring , healthcare. The last was offered by a giant US network.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 6, 2022

"Honor Expert allows older adults and their families to easily call a dedicated toll-free number or start an online chat to ask questions about major aging-related topics, such as health and wellness, care planning, and home management. Users report better outcomes in understanding conversations than the average hearing aid user.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 12, 2018

The hearing aid industry offers pricey hearing aids for people with ‘defined’ hearing loss. The FDA wants you to understand that it regulates hearing aids – which it defines as helping the medical condition of hearing loss. That price includes a hearing test, fitting, initial batteries and more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Worse, for many older adults, isolation is a worsening health issue that we will hear more about as shutdowns continue and shut-in becomes the virtual norm. We’ve seen how technology and innovation in other verticals of healthcare have created better treatments, cost-savings, and health outcomes that have ultimately improved lives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. " Listen to the full webinar here.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Hearing aids should appeal to those with significant hearing loss. It’s a given that hearing loss interferes with communication – which itself is a risk for social isolation – as well as fall risk and dementia. At the high end (meaning very expensive), hearing aids are increasingly clever. Technology innovation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 8, 2020

Half of those aged 75+ and one-third of the 65+ have hearing loss. As with other market segments, the hearing health market saw the opportunity to promote their teleaudiology (or tele-audiology ) services for those who already own telehealth-capable hearing aids that may need adjustment. Learn more at Beltone.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 8, 2020

Half of those aged 75+ and one-third of the 65+ have hearing loss. As with other market segments, the hearing health market saw the opportunity to promote their teleaudiology (or tele-audiology ) services for those who already own telehealth-capable hearing aids that may need adjustment. Learn more at Beltone.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 9, 2021

Seniors at any tech proficiency level can hear a demonstration of this – and be startled at what can be done without rising from a chair, fiddling with a mouse, or swiping a screen. Our voice-enabled personal health coaches – not so much. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2018

Uncorrected hearing loss isolates and harms older adults. O ne in three between age 65 and 74 has hearing loss , and nearly half of people aged 75+ have some significant level of hearing loss. Furthermore, wearing hearing aids has been linked to fewer hospital visits. Why such a small percentage?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And with those capabilities we can begin to monitor our own health, have a teleheatlth session, track our medications , and even have our falls detected prior to injury. We can assist caregivers, engage with our long-distance family members and adjust the font-size, colors, and sound volume to accommodate changing vision and hearing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Telehealth In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story: The dramatic spikes in telehealth visits in March and April have dropped off, even as in-person visits have started climbing slowly. In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

Today, perhaps due to pending boomer bulge, innovators and their funders may be having a somewhat easier time, at least in some market categories – health, home care, transportation come to mind. Kaizn will then adjust the user's hearing aid settings to reflect that preference. ReemoHealth Remote Mobile Health Platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Of all industries, health care above all should provide accessible web sites to support people with disabilities or special needs. Furthermore, the field is getting more and more digital with wellness sites, telehealth, and fitness devices—so making them accessible is crucial to making health care accessible. are great advances.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Others require a leap of imagination or a good explanation as to why this variant of hearing aid is worth as much as $4000 per ear. ITRI said the system could serve in industries such as manufacturing, health care and hazardous environment operation." Widex Moment hearing aid. Learn more at ITRI. Learn more at Slashgear.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

But here are 'answers': Bing Chat: There are many AI-enabled technologies that are available today to help older adults with various aspects of their health and well-being. WIDEX MOMENT™: A digital hearing aid that can adjust to different sound environments and stream music or phone calls 1.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

But it also became apparent that some older adults who were shut out from these due to limitations in vision, hearing, dexterity, and even dementia. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , computers, internet and social networking.

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