Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

These two letters, AI, have risen to top of tech talk and media minds. A quick search reveals near hysteria in the media and near panic among leading tech firms. So as a result, tech firms want you to know that they are working on appropriate fixes. Consider The Internet of Caring Things.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 12, 2023

They can also boost tech confidence and user self-sufficiency. But then it baffles, since its home page also offers a ‘Find a community’ option, and the screening questions (‘what state, what is most important’) were timewasters when the question asked of the chat operator was about availability in a specific location.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2022

Tech adoption among older adults is clearly growing. But what if tech adoption came from a sample size of 2.9 That access enables locating services, jobs, long-distance family members, online discounts, and a host of other useful and taken-for-granted elements of modern life. Why is this an issue -- whether in 2020 or 2022?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

These should be of particular note to startups and tech companies that want to reach the older adult market. Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia. Many tech offerings are too hard to set up and use and widely available tech training and support is needed.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 13, 2023

That was the year that i nvestment in home care businesses went wild and it was time for another look at the possibilities of Tech-Enabled Home Care. An industry facing high turnover and instability may have served as a catalyst for $200 million of VC investment in 2016 alone.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Healthcare providers are increasingly turning to technology to help shoulder these burdens, but are fancy tech deployments really the cure or just another placebo? RTLS RTLS ( Real-time Location Systems ) are not new technologies, but they remain uncommon in most healthcare settings. revolution.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

AI can help novice users with a tech problem or search answers to perplexing questions – to avoid asking their family members or becoming buried in frustrating searches for answers. Older adults may be less embarrassed talking to a chatbot about tech uncertainty than calling up their long-distance grandson.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

These factors include bandwidth to the patient’s location, camera capabilities, speaker controls and others. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Telemedicine is a major driver in shifting the healthcare delivery model Featured Decision Content:

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2024

Are there innovations on the horizon that will improve the tech user experience? Are tech developers so insulated from users, they don’t see the deterioration of experience as it happened? User experience non-design – it’s not just tech devices – consider the stove’s cockpit. million are women and 10.8 million are men?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

Ending the era of no-tech to at least some tech. These may have revealed -- like the AARP recent survey of the 70+ age group -- the lack of adoption of devices and tech among the oldest. When the crisis has passed, what will the differences be in terms of tech in senior living? What will be different in that year?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2023

The hype about ChatGPT and its peers has revolutionized the tech world. a) Find your phone, b) accept the text message, c) copy the ‘we will never share your information with others’ privacy token into the appropriate location on the screen. Use the usual searches for income, marital status, housing status, tech ownership.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

As if that weren’t enough, a tech track at Argentum’s annual (now virtual) conference included a session on Voice First (sponsored by CDW Healthcare) in a long list of tech enablement session entries. category tags: senior living , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants. CarePredict Pinpoint.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Within the next five years, tech vendors will likely comply with at least some aspects of the Matter standard. The promoters of the standard, intended to make the vision of the smart home, with easily connected devices, a reality. Instead, in the future, hands-on care will be optimized and supplemented with tech-enabled monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Here are the five blog posts from August: Taking stock of the tech market for older adults – what’s happened? Past the halfway mark in 2023, it’s increasingly clear that the older adult tech market has been disrupted by changes in demand. What is the context for technology change in 2023?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Rather than force a patient to carry their records from care location to location, the standardization and exchange of electronic medical records will see a boost from the use of AI software tools. See today-future comparison chart below. The care continuum will become a data-driven reality for just-right care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Never mind that the location was isolating for the resident or patient. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , tech-enabled home care , Family caregivers. Can sensors also have an impact on staffing challenges? Consider the staff daily and nightly workload of check-in walks, nearby and all the way to the end.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Tech for the early stage. Tech Categories. that point, a wearable with location tracking may help keep their loved one safe and reduce worry about getting lost near their home. Tech Categories. Location tracking tools. Tech Categories. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline. Motion sensors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2020

This tech market is less about products specifically designed for older adults and more about smarter marketing of many consumer offerings that could be useful to them. Consumers can also request a virtual house call where a tech expert remotely connects to their device to solve the issue for them. Learn more at Global Wireless Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Or consider Apple Family Setup , which enables an Apple Watch to be set up and used without an iPhone, enabling texts, calls and GPS location. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , tech-enabled home care. Here are five examples. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

But the tech has changed – now non-wearable and radar-based fall detection (even in a steam shower), tiny paper sensors in a mat , wearables that can predict the onset of stroke , ones that feature biometrics, including blood pressure , and even Air Tags or Smart Tags that can pinpoint the location of a phone (or suitcase) left behind.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

And basic Medicare still does not cover, although Medicare Advantage plans (like United Healthcare , for example) in some locations do. Will AI enablement help senior living achieve just-right staffing at a given time or location? Wi-Fi Enabled Fall Detection – and other room-smart changes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

At the end of June, the federal government published its status report on aging-related initiatives, which was especially notable for including tech investment in ombudsman programs. Covid-19 and Mid-Year Look at 2020 Tech Trends for Older Adults. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, tech nice-to-haves have become critical.

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David Chou

MARCH 25, 2023

The American Hospital Association Center for Health Innovation recently released a report forecasting the revolutionary changes that retail firms and tech giants will bring to healthcare delivery in 2023 and beyond. The move comes at a price tag of $3.9 This can be a potential opportunity.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

And when people get ready argue about how it can be really cheap , as little as $10/month, this article notes that this is location-dependent, and in some cases, income dependent. Let’s assume that for now, AARP has halted its regional training (18 locations) and the OATS center-based training is also halted.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Tech adoption among older adults is clearly increasing. But what if tech adoption came from a sample size of 2.9 Good news -- seventy-six percent of the 65+ population as of 2020 has access to broadband -- and tech adoption has clearly risen since 2015. Isn’t it time for a voice-enabled tech concierge?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It was filled with tech from wall-to-wall and bus ride to bus ride. DME providers, as well as manufacturers, that register with DMEconnected are able to upload their information into a number of portals for order forms, locations and sales reps for an annual fee.” category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by pre-conference Voice Health summit , task forces , and even onstage singing by health tech folk that may wish they were in show business. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , healthcare. Learn more at Medisanté.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It seems only yesterday that Tech-Enabled Home Care was published – with that wonderful Forbes graphic “Why VCs Care More About Home Care”. billion globally in 1300 locations), Interim Health Care (home care and hospice), and Visiting Angels, but including a long list of home care agencies that were in business long before 2016.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 20, 2021

To adjust the lenses, the wearer simply adjusts the dials located on top of each lens – adjusting away from the nose for a more negative power or turn the wheel towards the nose for a more positive power.” category tags: assistive technologies , robotics , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , vision and vision technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2018

After all, most cannot afford private pay assisted living – which can exceed $3000/month in most locations – and assisted living occupancy is projected to be flat -- likely because people see the cost and defer move-in. In those cases where an Amazon device is at two locations, one person can ' drop in ' to check on another.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

The new trend – tech/services for older adults, not just tech. The other apparent trend is the enthusiasm of partners (health care, senior living, home care) to try out new tech-enabled services that target a problem or opportunity that may have existed a decade ago, but is truly apparent today. Learn more at Joinpapa.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 17, 2019

Consider this phrase from the report: “design-for-all technologies will provide our own personalized network of devices that recognize where they are through our authorized and turned-on GPS location tracking; they automatically know streets have changed and offer the latest directions—no need to download new maps.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 20, 2021

To adjust the lenses, the wearer simply adjusts the dials located on top of each lens – adjusting away from the nose for a more negative power or turn the wheel towards the nose for a more positive power.” category tags: assistive technologies , robotics , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , vision and vision technology , CES 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 30, 2019

In fact one of those which went to UnaliWear for Best IoT Device, a firm we have long tracked in the aging tech market segment, but given the rise of smart watches , the potential transcends that segment. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. WooHoo from SmartBeings.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

Brooks Rehab and Sonifi Health (170 healthcare provider locations). “The nonprofit post-acute hospital has partnered with SONIFI Health to install an interactive technology system in each of the patient rooms. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , healthcare , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

After all, most cannot afford private pay assisted living – which can exceed $3000/month in most locations – and assisted living occupancy is projected to be flat -- likely because people see the cost and defer move-in. category tags: hearing loss , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Seniors , dementia care.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 12, 2024

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #CharmHealth — CharmHealth , a leader in healthcare technology solutions for providers, today announced the launch of its health-tech marketplace, CharmHealthApps , a third-party vendor and innovation hub that aids in the discovery and acquisition of integrated healthcare-related products and services.

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