Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 27, 2022

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. This roll-up of statistics shows more than 400,000 employees lost between 2020 and 2022, with long-term care facilities (aka nursing homes) being the most impacted.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

From the national home care associations , a report in March: “The workforce shortage in home-based care has reached crisis proportions. Home health care providers currently report turning away over 25% of referred patients due to staff shortages.” Insurers see the opportunity in care in the home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Experience has shown there's a tradeoff between monitoring duration (1 to 14 days), and adhesive aggressiveness, which can lead to skin rashes or wounds. Myant Health. They developed smart underwear that could become one of the most reliable and effective ways to detect and prevent health issues. Sensoria Health. "

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

Care collaboration technology vendor TigerConnect has debuted TigerTouch, a text message-oriented, audio/visual telehealth system designed to help health systems manage COVID-19 cases. The system enables providers to engage patients at each touchpoint during a health event, from diagnosis, to hospitalization, to recovery.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

These trends include the possible future role of AI , that can help address workforce issues and provide benefit over the coming months and years: Older adults continue to live in their own homes. Older adults dominate home ownership rates as well as benefiting from lower interest rates for their mortgages, if they have one.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 2, 2020

If your firm is in the remote care/caregiving space (health, telehealth, engagement), please comment or email and I will add to this list. But nursing homes, specifically? In 2018 and 2019, infrastructure topped the list of investments for surveyed organizations, particularly multi-site campuses that might include nursing homes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. These networks profit the people they serve.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Before disasters such as tornadoes or wildfires, they should consider designating municipal buildings as "generator and telehealth zones" where equipment and virtual care kiosks can be moved. There are many places in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Government & Policy Population Health Telehealth The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is funding new efforts to help counties and municipalities build high-speed broadband networks. As the pandemic graphically revealed, there are many hundreds of miles of homes without broadband.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

In other wrap-up surprises, entrepreneurs are shifting to the enterprise for funding, or that the digital health user experience is key to senior uptake. Jabra Enhance Plus delivers a 3-in-1 experience in a miniaturized true wireless form factor design, around half the size of Jabra's smallest true wireless earbuds. Healables. "M

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2022

The projections showed that it would move from a ratio of 7 to 1 (using 2010 census data) down to 4 to 1 by 2030. And in 2020 (pre-Covid), AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving survey showed that nearly 1 in 5 Americans provided care to a family member with health or functional needs. Then things got worse.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Fairly new at the time, a few senior living organizations embraced it for its home automation potential, possibility of concierge services -- turn on the lights! The generally accepted view was that this technology was going to be “Easy, Cheap, Useful, Smart, and Connected (home automation that just works).” Raise the blinds!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Life has been worsening for older adults – in senior living and at home. Isolation has produced an increase in mental health issues, loneliness and depression – and that would be for those who have a good grasp of what is going on – for those in long-term care , for those with dementia, unable to be hugged by family, it is far worse.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s at the point where the surgeon general recently declared it to be a serious health risk : " 29% increased risk of heart disease, a 32% increased risk of stroke, and a 50% increased risk of developing dementia for older adults. Our virtual companions extend the reach of both the provider and health plan into the home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

And Nielsen observed that the pandemic was a catalyst for the rise of tech use for working at home and shopping, among other uses. In addition, telehealth usage has skyrocketed, with virtual doctor visits expected by Forrester Research to top 1 billion by years end. First the confusion.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Meanwhile, the labor shortage has impacted every aspect of senior care, requiring a rethink of financial health of the businesses and the role of technology. Many people do not remember much about January 1, 2000, the day all systems that stored 2-digit years would become useless calculators.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

When assembling the 2019 tenth anniversary version, it was apparent that this year reflects change -- in the supply-demand balance in the overbuilt senior housing market, in policy changes driving health care services into the home, in market forecasts, and in the mix of vendors who serve the market. million unfilled jobs by 2026.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. Sensor-based home monitoring was a 2007-ish innovation. The home visit – no tech result, interesting motive. With persuasion?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

Certainly ccess has improved: Ninety-five percent of Americans use the Internet and more than 80% have broadband at home. Restaurants and health facility check-in are but two examples. For years device and software tech ‘improved’ to a point of widespread optimism about our tech future. QR code to access programs for performances.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2023

Medical Guardian also informs that every 11 seconds, 1 in 4 Americans aged 65+ experience a fall-related injury. These future systems would offer vital signs monitoring and be integrated with health applications – and even health systems. On the LifeAlert website, the woman is still falling and can’t get up. Are we there yet?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

It also features ITRI's LPMS (Low Power Microwave Sensor) technology, which passed the FDA-level electromagnetic wave radiation EMC/EMI test by the IEC60601-1/IEC60606-2 regulation." This program is for everyone who takes their overall health seriously and wants to try to prevent a heart attack or stroke. Learn more at ITRI.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

And AARP helps add brand recognition to the term ' Age Tech ' with a collaborative of companies at the Nexus of Longevity and Technology to deal with health issues and mitigate fear. In offering up a chart and commentary about tech in the 'connected' home, people returning products note their trouble and aggravation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

Like the increasingly rare stereo speaker in the home, the smart speaker is a connected appliance. What will be the year that an uptick in usage for smart speakers and voice assistants turn them into commodity concepts, embedded in devices, expected in homes at miniscule price points, but not actually a standalone category at all?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

And AARP helps add brand recognition to the term ‘ Age Tech’ with a collaborative of companies at the Nexus of Longevity and Technology to deal with health issues and mitigate fear. In offering up a chart and commentary about tech in the ‘connected’ home, note trouble and aggravation. AI and the Internet of Caring Things.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 25, 2018

This age-specific gap was quantified in 2013 by AARP (available caregivers in the population, or the caregiver support ratio, from 7:1 down to 3:1 by 2050). Consider doctors , especially in rural areas, and the investment in digital health , including remote diagnostics and consultations with specialists.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 24, 2019

Lacking access to smartphones, Internet, in-home broadband/WiFi cuts oldest out of access to modern telehealth, communication and engagement, in-home sensors, outside-home GPS, fall detection, and device integration with smartphones. Or they pay for 1-1 sessions. Not adopting tech -- it's not okay.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

The offering of remote consultation, diagnosis, and suggested treatment is now a white-labeled offering embedded inside insurance, health care providers, and employee wellness services. Amwell is now moving forward to help providers offer ‘ hospital at home’ – now part of multiple insurance offerings. Mcare Home Health Hub.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Analytics Population Health Quality and Safety Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 pandemic may be viewed as the single largest disruptor in the history of American healthcare. A cross-functional team across the health system came together to build the program quickly. Geisinger This post was co-authored by Rebecca A.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

Through cameras installed inside the household, the solution can detect the motions and postures of beloved family members with AI and release warning messages at the moment of danger, such as falling, sitting too long, leaving home without a clear reason, etc. the app will give off an alarm to notify all family members. Not yet available.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Many big companies decided at the last minute to stay home, eliminating, as one attendee noted, the lines at Starbucks. The projections showed that it would move from a ratio of 7 to 1 (using 2010 census data) down to 4 to 1 by 2030. Technologies for Older Adults from CES 2022.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2022

Except for the deep-pocketed Medical Guardian which bought in everywhere, these were all bracelets to help emergency workers determine health issue in an emergency. Compare that to PERS $1-2 billion market. category tags: Mobile PERS , PERS , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , wearables, smart watch.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Innovators in 2020 helped mitigate social isolation, enable in-home strength training for seniors, provided the tech mechanics (regardless of infrastructure) to connect older adults to families? BellPal , Freedom Guardian , Bay Alarm Medical , UnaliWear , HandsFree Health , FallCall Lite (Apple) – connect to a required response center.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Greater than you think – can you imagine that that by 2050, the number will grow from 72,000 to 1 million in the United States – in Canada, centenarians are the fastest-growing age group. Baby boomers may have a longer life expectancy at 65 than their parents – most likely due to availability of more sophisticated health care and medications.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

We have been incredulous, watching older adults die alone in a nursing home , and then dying in many nursing homes. Here are six blog posts from a May unlike any previous: Could technology improve nursing homes? Nursing homes – consternation, condemnation are words that rule the day. Go back to 2019, for just a moment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. Remote monitoring tools and mobile health apps and services took center stage.

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