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Challenging Innovators to Design for Older Adults: 2014 -2024

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In 2014, AARP’s Health Innovation @50+ sponsored a report, Challenging Innovators: Matching Offerings to the Needs of Older Adults. Identify partnerships early (before launching) that can help propel adoption and long-term success, whether commercially or with non-profits. Design for all, customize on need.

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Wearables for health and wellbeing

Aging in Place Technology Watch

How do wearables contribute to health and wellbeing of older adults? Did something happen recently propelling sales up 51% that pushed consumers out the door to buy a wearable, like a fitness band or a smartwatch? category tags: wearables, smart watch , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health.

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Four Technology Health and Aging Blog Posts from September 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Here are four blog posts from September 2018: Investors continue to salivate over health tech. billion invested in Digital Health ( which means whatever you want it to mean.) Yes that is vertical integration in the continuum of care – specifically for health services to elderly Medicare recipients. Gee, what do they do?

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Four tech and aging blog posts from August, 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The research report, Voice, Health, and Wellbeing 2020 has now launched and interviews are underway. Here are the blog posts from August for consideration: Wearables for Health and Wellbeing. Here are the blog posts from August for consideration: Wearables for Health and Wellbeing. What to make of all this? Read more. .

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The most-read tech and aging blog posts from 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Happy New Year – and onward to 2020, the publication of the now-completed Voice, Health and Wellbeing 2020 on Monday, January 6 th , and so many more (and counted) CES steps -- more wearables, virtual experiences, smart and not-so-smart speakers. But I am sure the blaring will begin at the door. Here are the most read blog posts from 2019.

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Recapping the most-read blog posts from 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

And investors have regularly run screaming from the ‘older adult’ category, preferring to view the whole bucket as ‘health’. Note that hearing loss has been linked to dementia and to social isolation – and that in turn has been connected to poorer health outcomes. What technology matters for older adults? Feb, 2018).

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Three More Signposts on the Road to Retail Health – Weight Loss Drugs, OTC Birth Control and Fashion-Meets-the-Flu

Health Populi

We continue to track to evolving, expanding landscape of retail health — which we see as the expanding ecosystem of health/care accessible to people-as-health consumers. Let’s start with weight-loss, as several aspects of health/care come together in the consumer’s retail health sandbox.