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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from September 2020

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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. Surprise (maybe) – Philips puts Lifeline business up for auction. Pendant medical alerts evolve – and will disappear.

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Tech-enabled home care 2012-2021 -- are we there yet?

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Aging population and healthcare changes make further growth of home care inevitable. In July of 2012, the report, The Future of Home Care Technology , a survey report sponsored by Philips, Microsoft, and LivHOME, was written and published. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care.

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Selected tech trends from upcoming 2021 Market Overview

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Pattern analysis, dashboards, and predictive analytics have permeated tech innovation for years, including healthcare, but have been slow to enter the world of caregiving for older adults. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , AI , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Mobile PERS.

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Leave no trend behind – yet another PERS smartwatch ticks on

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Last January 2021, WaterStreet, a healthcare investment company, coughed up a mind-bending $100 million to Medical Guardian, a long time (2006) privately-held PERS provider, to ‘fund expansion.’ category tags: Mobile PERS , smartphones , wearables, smart watch. Another long-time PERS player sees a watch, makes a watch.

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More than a decade ago -- a look at the Future of Home Care Technology

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To build this chart, interviews were conducted that included senior execs from Philips, the VA, Visiting Nurse Services, home care associations, Home Instead, Volunteers of America, and several home care organizations. Condition-specific checklists – maybe this has made it to large home healthcare providers. Care circle collaborators?

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

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Philips launched its own Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) offering in 2005 through the acquisition of Lifeline Systems and gave up 16 years later, selling it to Connect America. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , fall prevention, fall detection , Mobile PERS Has anyone you know fallen and couldn’t get up?

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Sampling technology for managing diabetes

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billion in avoidable healthcare costs. For those taking pills for managing Type 2 diabetes, locking medication containers from MedMinder Pharmacy or Philips may be useful. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health.

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