Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

The care continuum that serves older adults is an ignored reality. The stove-piping of care-related services is a myth. Examples: Some believe family caregivers are a standalone entity that does not use care services. Or that home care a parallel universe to senior living. Or they move loved ones to senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 10, 2023

One of the media-fueled risks today with the plethora of AI-related hype is the tendency to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes, reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. Lack of interfaces to senior and health care systems.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

New progress for dementia care. Home Care Magazine provided details about the just-announced Dementia Care policy changes, called the GUIDE Model , including care coordination services, support and payment to family caregivers to help keep care recipients out of nursing homes, and respite help. TaprootElla. “

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The federal “Money Follows the Person” was introduced in 2005 to enable seniors to avoid them and receive Medicaid-paid services. Was it the misnamed Five Star rating system that got such a bad reputation that Yelp seemed better at helping families find care? Or was it the senior living industry that seized their business?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

AI use in care delivery and marketing is not new - it just seems that way. AI is more established in marketing , even in senior-related businesses. AI is more established in marketing , even in senior-related businesses. Botco’s chatbot technology has been deployed at Carlton Senior Living. Learn more at Botco.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SkyPoint Cloud AI Platform for Senior Living. SkyPoint Cloud proudly launches the senior living industry’s first Enterprise AI SaaS product focused on enabling organizations to leverage generative AI to optimize efficiency and productivity. category tags: AI and machine learning , Scams -- all types , senior living , AgeTech

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Stanford Medicine offers a Partnership in AI-Assisted Care. Here are a few of the offerings in the market today – text is derived from various websites: Care.ai. " Care facilities need to be responsive, prepared and equipped with technology that continually evolves and adapts. Learn more. Caredaily.ai. Learn more. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

What care delivery has seen an uptake in technology adoption? People imagined that post-Covid-19, technology would become much more compelling in all types of care delivery. What hasn’t changed much – tech deployment in senior care. Consider that the median costs of long-term care are higher than ever.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The cost of senior living care at $54,000/year over any length of time is staggering, pushing move-in ages out to 84. The move to senior living is a move of desperation for many families, given that their loved one is likely to have dementia and needs more care. What it means – a tech opportunity. million 27.2 million 33.3

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And the shortage of labor in the care industries put a spotlight on the gaps in care that AI tech can help close. Butlr Care. "Butlr, a leading provider of anonymous people-sensing technology, today announced the availability of Butlr Care. We're disrupting the established, broken system of care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

But ‘aging in place’ is still a challenge and maybe a pipe dream for seniors in their late 70’s or 80’s. Then there is the cost of 24x7 home care, same as assisted living (which is $67K in Massachusetts, for example) or even Genworth’s 44-hours of home care ($53-54K annual). That may work for the most well-to-do seniors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The dream of reimbursement for remote care became a reality during the pandemic. Telehealth services will remain to replace or supplement in person visits likely throughout 2022, and Dispatch Health’s in-home urgent care is now available nationwide. It’s not just seniors who need help.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

(CareMerge is in the Argentum, Senior Living Supplier catalog). 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. Rendever Senior Living. Learn more at CareMerg e. CarePredict Pinpoint. Learn more at CarePredict.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The halfway point -- research about Future of Care Work. The cost of in-home care, according to Genworth Financial, averages around $5000. Staffing shortages drive innovation in care work. CNA staffing is at the heart of care in senior living settings like AL and Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2024

They have fueled growth in the home remodeling businesses, spending on bathroom modifications and other aging-related enablers, especially home care – which may be an out-of-reach luxury for many. With the boom in scam innovation , government initiatives and new tech emerges regularly to stop or eliminate scamming of seniors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Care workers – it’s not a shortage – it’s a crisis. People who need care workers will tell you – the media will tell you, and the industry will tell you. From the national home care associations , a report in March: “The workforce shortage in home-based care has reached crisis proportions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 16, 2022

A well-known consulting firm assesses the growing care gap. Boston Consulting Group analyzed the care crisis recently asserts that the lack of paid or unpaid care workers to provide care of children or aging parents may prevent them from filling unfilled jobs, noting the 99 million people today who are not in the workforce.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

The most recent data indicates that 22% of adults aged 85+ need help with personal care. Also during 2023 , non-medical home care work (or personal care aide) contributed to the shortage in the senior care industry. And home care was fastest growing job. Its turnover rate soared to 77.1%

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

HomeEXCEPT. “ HomeEXCEPT is hardware and software for active seniors, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and researchers. The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Livindi. “ Livindi keeps families connected with LivindiPad, a tablet for seniors. Verizon Care Smart Watch. Learn more. Learn m ore.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Look at the ten years or more between the first wave of useful sensor tech for seniors (2005 with GrandCare Systems ) until the newer collection of offerings. And not least, look at the shortage of workers in the care industries and the obvious but elusive pay raise that would match the market of possible workers. Read more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Harvard study describes a bleak care future. But only 14% of Americans can afford long-term care in the home. Or the tech-powering of home health and home care agencies (soon?) to supplement in-person care. The shortage of care workers within the next decade is daunting – it spans all aspects of care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 11, 2023

CarePredict Care Guide. CarePredict™, the leading AI-Powered Digital Health platform for senior care, announced today that their remote patient monitoring solution, CareGuide, was named a CES 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Digital Health category. All information is from press releases or the company websites.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Conversational AI already plays a growing role in care delivery. The future of AI and older adults is looking increasingly positive, with the technology being used to improve the quality of life for seniors. Will its answers be distorted by the advertising model that dominates the Internet? Likely -- but we need to wait and see.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

But ‘aging in place’ is still a challenge and maybe a pipe dream for seniors in their late 70’s or 80’s. Then there is the cost of 24x7 home care, same as assisted living (which is $67K in Massachusetts, for example) or even Genworth’s 44-hours of home care ($53-54K annual). That may work for the most well-to-do seniors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

The government agency seems to have given up on improving the quality or affordability of dementia care in senior living or nursing homes. But is that the best setting for dementia care? No surprise: Data underpins care quality in senior living and home care. Or they move loved ones to senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Home care agencies are contacted, transportation providers of rides to-from appointments surface, food is delivered, and other services are brought in. 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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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. A growing number of the 50+ population are solo agers, those with no close relatives to share in their future care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2023

Add in the NSF grant to Georgia Tech for AI-CARING ($20 million) to help older adults, including those with dementia. Some of these grants will fund projects to determine best practices in care, some new technology for care, including wearables, and some researching new processes to help older adults age in their own home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

The perfect storm has arrived to drive tech adoption in the home and care services. The slow rollout of Wi-Fi in senior living was, to say the least, a miscalculation about the future. Consider that older adults remain in hospitals and rehab facilities because there are no workers to help them with care at home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What changes in care technology will be different later in this decade? Consider the implications of adoption of sensors to deliver and improve the care of older adults -- then look forward five years. Does the shortage of labor to serve the aging population make sensor technology essential in delivering care?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As an aging population grows, the supporting labor force for aging services, both in communities and for in-home care, simply isn’t there, lured away by better pay across multiple sectors. It continues to be a struggle to fully enable the senior care service industries with high-speed internet capability. Stay tuned!].

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults 2020. The pandemic catalyzed simultaneous innovation efforts on multiple fronts – many of the initiatives will become fixtures within the emerging remote care technology ecosystem.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

Certainly that must be what senior living residents and older adults living at home do, not to mention the of-course sizable tech staff working in senior living and elder care. Some senior living companies during Covid saw the need to help residents with their devices. Enter the tech concierge. Thoughts welcome.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 9, 2021

Has the future arrived in the world of seniors, senior housing, home care? 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. Is voice first indistinguishable from magic?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And this updated information will ideally be available to other medical providers, not to mention senior and home health care companies that will soon see the discharged patient. And some envision a transformation of the physical spaces for care, including new designs of patient rooms that include large screens for telehealth visits.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2020

Then in April, Verizon does it again, launches a PERS, this time a smart watch offering, called the Care Smart Watch for seniors. That statement has no connection to today's Care Smart Watch for seniors. A care watch for ' Seniors' – sounds good – but what’s a senior?

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