Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 19, 2023

For too many years, high quality data about care of seniors has been elusive. Lack of standardization of technology platforms – or lack of care platforms altogether – hobbled the care industries -- senior living, home care, home healthcare. Note its 2015 $72.5 Market fragmentation, for one.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

The care continuum that serves older adults is an ignored reality. The stove-piping of care-related services is a myth. Examples: Some believe family caregivers are a standalone entity that does not use care services. That committing to aging independently at home is a permanent decision. Mariposa Technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Remote patient monitoring The question of virtual care's post-pandemic staying power has been answered resoundingly: Telemedicine is here to stay. By Bill Siwicki | October 17, 2023 News Covenant Health advances hospital-at-home program Dr. John Busigin, Covenant Health's Advanced Care at Home medical director, said that 20-30% of.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 7, 2022

A vision for 'connected care.' Conceived by Andrea Cohen, Founder and Vice-Chair of HouseWorks, a Boston-area Home Care agency, and as Andrea noted, "When employed to its fullest, remote care technology improves every aspect of how care is delivered in the home. Why does this matter now?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

Trends accelerated by the pandemic continue to emerge, and the population aged 50+ will continue to purchase and use technology, accounting for an estimated 51% of technology spending by 2030. A striking shift from care in faci lities and hospitals to care in the home. . It’s not just older adults who need help.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Census knows the growth and potential explosion of care needs and older adults. Home Health Care Services experienced an even larger increase – 50/5% -- during the same period.” Figure 1 Estimated revenues from care related services 2013-2020. category tags: AgeTech , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Harvard study describes a bleak care future. But only 14% of Americans can afford long-term care in the home. And if they could afford it, only 4% of their homes are aging-ready. Nor are they telehealth-ready – where 36% of Americans do not have high-speed internet in the home. to supplement in-person care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What changes in care technology will be different later in this decade? Consider the implications of adoption of sensors to deliver and improve the care of older adults -- then look forward five years. What will be different in this second technology wave, both from today and from the market a decade ago?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

The perfect storm has arrived to drive tech adoption in the home and care services. And the shortages in home care , home healthcare , skilled nursing facilities and senior living are juxtaposed with an overall labor shortage, just as the oldest baby boomer has turned 76 and has significant remaining life expectancy.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In offering up a chart and commentary about tech in the ‘connected’ home, note trouble and aggravation. Those reading this blog can look around their own home – noting a Wi-Fi network, smartphone, smart speaker, or in some homes a smart doorbell, thermostat, refrigerator – or a too-smart car. But there are some options.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And not least, look at the shortage of workers in the care industries and the obvious but elusive pay raise that would match the market of possible workers. Some of the technology found in the pricier prescription aids will be available in the cheaper OTC aids.” Note that uncorrected hearing loss is correlated with dementia.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And the shortage of labor in the care industries put a spotlight on the gaps in care that AI tech can help close. Butlr Care. "Butlr, a leading provider of anonymous people-sensing technology, today announced the availability of Butlr Care. We're disrupting the established, broken system of care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 27, 2022

There is a labor shortage everywhere -- ditto in senior care. We know that one of the biggest issues in senior living (and home care, nursing homes, home health care) today is a shortage of labor. B ut is tech investment part of all senior care strategies?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Perhaps it will be in a home that needs ‘ age-proofing’ a large house with stairs, no nearby relatives and no first-floor bedroom. They have high hopes about AgeTech -- how it will help them stay in their homes. They are hopeful about the new technology designed to help them. What could go wrong?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

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. Observe that despite the hysteria over Amazon layoffs , voice technology has passed its hype cycle and is now present and utilized in at least 95 million US households. Caregiving technology trends.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

New progress for dementia care. Home Care Magazine provided details about the just-announced Dementia Care policy changes, called the GUIDE Model , including care coordination services, support and payment to family caregivers to help keep care recipients out of nursing homes, and respite help.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 16, 2022

A well-known consulting firm assesses the growing care gap. Boston Consulting Group analyzed the care crisis recently asserts that the lack of paid or unpaid care workers to provide care of children or aging parents may prevent them from filling unfilled jobs, noting the 99 million people today who are not in the workforce.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 10, 2023

One of the media-fueled risks today with the plethora of AI-related hype is the tendency to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes, reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. With growing usage of AI technology, numerous ethical questions are emerging.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Those caregivers that remained earned well deserved increases in compensation while high priced travel support was required to fill in the patient care scheduling gaps. While in this transition phase, many organizations are looking to information technology to advance their operational efficiency and further evolve patient care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Sensor technology is increasingly useful in the care of older adults. In senior living or home care, permission to track this type of information is likely (hopefully) given at the onboarding of a new care recipient or resident. Since January of 2020, 400,000 nursing home and assisted living workers have quit.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

AI use in care delivery and marketing is not new - it just seems that way. Most would agree: AI is the hottest segment in the technology market today. Botco’s chatbot technology has been deployed at Carlton Senior Living. integrates ChatGPT into its care app. " Learn more at Essence Smart Care. Learn more at Botco.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. Home care vs. assisted living – the demand is for home care. Hospitals continue to close , especially in rural areas. The stampede into the home boosted demand for broadband access. But a number of these changes are likely permanent.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. The meeting’s tagline this year is “Health That Connects + Tech That Cares.” ” That’s a good start and intent for putting people first for their own health and the health of the people for whom they care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 13, 2023

An optimistic view of home care’s future as seen from 2012. Several times in the past decade, interviews were conducted with experts that lead to some reports about the home care industry. This chart came from a report, The Future of Home Care Technology 2012 that was sponsored by Microsoft, Verizon and LivHome, in 2012.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The demand for home care workers will grow by at least by 37%. So far, robots are not playing much of a role in the home. Aside from vacuum cleaners , robot toys , and socialization with older adults – robots in the home are not yet at the SciFi level in the film Robot and Frank. And will older adults even have a choice?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2023

MIT Technology Review packs all the AI news that’s fit to pack into an up-to-the-minute digest. Here are four categories of AI for older adults – all discussed in the upcoming report, The Future of AI and Older Adults , to be published the week of May 15: AI in home and home health care. So does the Wall Street Journal.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring? Both types of monitoring are increasingly likely to be found by home care professionals entering a new care recipient’s home. But home care agencies can offer private pay RPM services. How is RPM delivered?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

Staffing issues continue to plague senior care organizations. And the shortage of care workers is mirrored in other industries – signs are posted everywhere seeking workers in the midst of the ‘ great resignation.’. Fewer workers available invites technology augmentation. How about the care-related industries?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Long forgotten now, it was briefly in Wikipedia to define the benefit of a continuing care retirement community where you did not have to leave the community if you required higher levels of care. But it eventually stuck as remaining in your home through thick and thin. Or the cost and availability of home care?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

Analytics Cloud Computing Population Health Telehealth Workforce One CIO names the technologies and leadership strategies he'll be focused on this year: platform design, 'Virtual Care 3.0' Here are some priorities for technology and leadership focus for CIOs in 2022. Virtual Care 3.0, aka hospital-at-home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As with all new technologies throughout history, the hype cycle prevails. So it will likely be with the various variants of AI technology, which will likely become dramatically improved in the coming months and years with infusions of investment from firms like Microsoft. Conversational AI already plays a growing role in care delivery.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Some might say that sensor technology for older adults is nothing new. What’s the big deal? This type of tech had obvious benefits, even then, but today, what was obvious then has become a crisis of care today. This type of tech had obvious benefits, even then, but today, what was obvious then has become a crisis of care today.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2023

Before the recent hype cycle , there have been multiple technologies offered for older adults that incorporate AI and machine learning. Add in the NSF grant to Georgia Tech for AI-CARING ($20 million) to help older adults, including those with dementia. These grants largely predate the ChatGPT hype. And just in time. [

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Success Stories & ROI Having gained some hard-won wisdom about the dos and don'ts of information technology investments in recent years, healthcare providers are getting bolder in their digital transformation spending. Kendell Cannon describes how her primary care practice sifted through the hype of artificial.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

With the beginning of HIPAA-compliance, diagnostic capabilities based on voice, and increased personalization capability, Voice First technology promises to provide greater assistance to health professionals and a better experience for consumers at home. Technology for Aging 2020 Market Overview.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Care workers – it’s not a shortage – it’s a crisis. People who need care workers will tell you – the media will tell you, and the industry will tell you. From the national home care associations , a report in March: “The workforce shortage in home-based care has reached crisis proportions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Then there is the cost of 24x7 home care, same as assisted living (which is $67K in Massachusetts, for example) or even Genworth’s 44-hours of home care ($53-54K annual). But families are still in a position of finding and then managing the care workers, even with agency assistance.

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