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Voice and AI – Better Together for Older Adults – New Report

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Use cases have proven valuable for seniors. A voice heard in a house of an older person living alone cuts through the silence, even if it is a conversation with a device. Today, one-third of adults aged 65+ live alone. The future: Broadband, voice, and AI are mission critical for senior living.

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Five tech offerings serving the family, senior and home care continuum

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That committing to aging independently at home is a permanent decision. Or that home care a parallel universe to senior living. Or they move loved ones to senior living. Senior living companies (and families) augment limited staff with home care workers. Learn more at care.ai Mariposa Technologies.

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technologies from the Argentum 2020 virtual conference and suppliers

Aging in Place Technology Watch

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. CareMerge is in the Argentum, Senior Living Supplier catalog). Rendever Senior Living.

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Aging in Place – What goes around comes around again (and again)

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And the term wandered over briefly to assisted living. From the survey: " My mom was able to live independently in her home until she was 95." But maybe not always so independently: consider the post-Covid rise of the Medical Home , the rise of ’virtual first’ visits and telehealth care.

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Aging in place – what goes around comes around -- maybe

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The death rates from Covid-19 (or with Covid-19) of seniors in nursing homes and assisted living were horrific on the one hand and daunting to prospective move-ins. million are aged 85+ -- not surprisingly the approximate move-in age to senior living – 1.4 Senior living occupancy dropped to just 79.5%

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The hype of aging in place -- so bad for so many

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The odds are good these days that the 50-65 are still working and can afford where they live. Finally, the struggle to stay independent, aging in place, gets to be too much. The numbers of care recipients in home care, senior living, and adult day services has likely crossed 5 million people by now.

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July Blog posts -- fall detection, dementia tech, aging in place and more

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The government agency seems to have given up on improving the quality or affordability of dementia care in senior living or nursing homes. The new GUIDE program will support caregivers and ‘enable people living with dementia to remain in their homes and communities.’ Or they move loved ones to senior living.

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