Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But that does not mean that their experience is a happy one… Ownership does not imply comfort level. category tags: smartphones , tablets , wearables , smart home , Television/Smart TV Wearables, smart home tech, and home assistants (assume that means voice offerings) have not crossed the halfway mark in adoption.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Pressure is growing in senior living to ‘keep people well’ in conjunction with a higher level of acuity of care needs. category tags: Home Care , home health care , senior living , AI and machine learning Turnover is highest in the lowest-paid care positions – home care is at a high point at 77% as of 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

Goolsbee and Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, tag-teamed the U.S. Note that the study was conducted among Principal clients who had at least one investment with the company, so this was a consumer sample that had some level of savings in their financial lives.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Caremerge Voice provides a new level of instant access to community information and concierge services that senior living communities and residents are going to love. Connecting with residents through these experiences leads to an increased sense of empathy and a deeper level of commitment to providing care." Learn more at Rendever.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Caregivers: In April, 2023, the White House issued “ The Executive Order on Increasing Access to High-Quality Care and Supporting Caregivers (EO) including more than 50 directives to nearly every cabinet-level agency to expand access to affordable, high-quality care, and provide support for care workers and family caregivers.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2022

Future examinations of this summary data can include education level and employment status. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking. That access became critical during the vaccine signup period right after the date of this census data collection cutoff. Attachment Size. 2020_ACS_5YR_Internet_Map.pdf 165.98

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 25, 2023 News TrueCare graduates half its home hypertension patients from RPM program, and counting The San Diego-based provider sees around 30 readings per patient per month, showing a high level of. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Connected Health

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Even with wealth, older adults at some point in their lives will need some level of assistance. You read it every day in the popular press – the bad news about the 65+ and their future care burden and the good news about the 65+ and their wealth (22% of US spending in 2022).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some recent announcements offer almost the same level of overheating investment that the frothy level of investment that characterized the 2016 investor spending spree, noted in a Forbes. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care. What’s up with investing in home care and technology? And if so, when?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

The senior living industry is challenged in 2022 to ramp up occupancy back to its pre-pandemic levels. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , computers, broadband, and social networking , senior living. And the percentage living alone increases as people reach their 80s – 58% of older adults aged 80+ live alone now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Start planning now for emergency-level access that allows people to surge and flow between sites in a triage situation. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19 Featured Decision Content: Be ready to support surging personnel.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

At a macro level, Civitas Networks for Health brings together over 170 member organizations from across the country, each committed to transforming healthcare through data-driven insights and multi-stakeholder health improvement.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The underwear current includes biometric sensors that measure things like sleep quality, activity, stress level, temperature, and electrocardiography (ECG)*. category tags: wearables, smart watch , wearables , AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Pressure is growing in senior living to ‘keep people well’ in conjunction with a higher level of acuity of care needs. Even with wealth, older adults at some point in their lives will need some level of assistance. Turnover is highest in the lowest-paid care positions – home care is at a high point at 77% as of 2022.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

The system can provide “out-of-bed” alerts to care teams, helping them respond quickly to residents who may be at risk of falling or wandering, and generates high-level reports on sleep quality, helping health care providers better support a resident’s care. All you have to do is plug it in.” Learn more at Tellusyoucare.com.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Or they could extend time in a senior living home, prior to moving to a higher level of care. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , tech-enabled home care , Family caregivers. By mitigating some of these issues, older adults could remain home longer, supported by home care. Some worry the industry cannot recover.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Providers ask to speak with insurer as part of a prior authorization requirement asking for approval for care, like length of stay, prescriptions, level of care, and other options. Insurance company reviewers and primary care providers may initiate P2P calls based on their employer guidelines. A Bad Reputation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 14, 2021

So how about doing more frequent granular surveys – down to the state, county level? category tags: Technology - AARP , computers, internet and social networking. Perhaps finding ways to promote Internet access and then measure whether those promotions succeeded. Like the American Community Survey? but only updated through 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

One would believe this ubiquity of access might make us hopeful that we are now in the era of tech helping consumers of all ages, no matter what task or level of knowledge. Today there are numerous programs to subsidize access, and smartphone penetration has exceeded 92%. Or has the tech user experience also deteriorated?

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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. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants. Turn on the lights?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2022

User profiles today are at a version one level of evolution – your name, your voice, your previous shopping or online search queries. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants. when someone says, either at home or out and about: “I’ve fallen and can’t get up” or “I am in pain.”.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 23, 2022

We might learn from the upcoming American Community Survey (ACS) data release which households have broadband connectivity, own a computer or other devices – down to a level of granularity that includes that rarely surveyed category, age 85+. The ACS will size tech adoption – and not a minute too soon.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2023

Then apps supported by FallCall Solutions – now also on Android devices, included the severity level of the fall as well as integration to a response center. category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection , Remote monitoring , AI and machine learning Are we there yet? Is all of this good enough?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The recommendation I give here is restricted to the gross level: for Document Sharing at the XDS/XCA/DocumentReference metadata level; for FHIR REST at the returned Bundle.meta.security level, but not on each Resource in the Bundle; and for CDA at the CDA header, but not on each element. but it is untested grounds.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Petnow app can solve the problems of the existing pet identification methods such as microchips, tags, and collars that are prone to damage or loss, and it is beginning to enter the U.S. category tags: CES 2023 , hearables/hearing technology , digital health , assistive technologies , smartphones; wearables , pet technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 17, 2022

Chatable is available on both iOS (iPhone) and Android, works for many levels of hearing loss, and can be used without the need for a hearing test. Adjusts with increased background noise levels.” category tags: hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones. Adjust sensitivity for noisier environments. Learn more.

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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. And the term wandered over briefly to assisted living. But it eventually stuck as remaining in your home through thick and thin.

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Telehealth 118

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Some recent announcements offer almost the same frothy level of investment that characterized the 2016 investor spending spree, neatly noted in a 2016 Forbes article. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , tech-enabled home care. What’s up with investing in home care and technology?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

Smart implants: Devices that can monitor vital signs, blood glucose levels, or medication intake 1. category tags: Generative AI , fall prevention, fall detection Some examples are: Remote home monitoring: Elder care robots that can assist nurses and caregivers to focus on the elderly person’s needs 1.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention got their hands on the definition -- aging in place as "the ability to live in one's own home and community safely, independently, and comfortably, regardless of age, income, or ability level." That enabled adding four categories of useful technology, copied from a Market Overview. Rant off. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

During this period we have seen lots of great initiatives to digitise the consultation process, this isn’t anything new but it’s certainly been accelerated with the NHS in England reporting record levels of online consultation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At the lowest skill level, non-medical home care jobs on average pay $12/hour according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care. But pay is poor and home care quality and oversight are variable. Most firms hire part-time workers and overall job turnover is high – 64% in 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Dementia care (note percentages with various levels of dementia ), by 2019 a much-needed offering. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living , Home Care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Consider the role of the LPN nurse -- calling 911 to bring residents to the ER for all but the simplest condition.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

This small portable composite device is well featured to measure the blood glucose noninvasively using a near-infrared photosensor without finger pricking, and multiple vital signs such as heartrate, oxygen level (SpO2), electrocardiogram (ECG), blood pressure and skin temperature. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

Her family is alerted to her level or lack of physical activity, and also the frequency with which her room is entered by staff. category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , Seniors , senior living , seniors and aging policy , covid-19. Her pull-cord has been replaced -- she need only speak a request. If so, please comment.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It made people want to track health variables they never thought they would track -- like heart rate variability , blood oxygen levels, or hand washing frequency and duration. . category tags: wearables, smart watch , digital health , games, fun and fitness. Upending the Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) landscape.

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