Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The CDC numbers, of course, cannot be argued with – but they do not factor in life expectancy at 65, nor is that mentioned much in the media that individuals will likely live an additional 20 years. Women may be expected to live another 21.24 million live in nursing homes – where the most common condition is dementia.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

Use cases have proven valuable for seniors. A voice heard in a house of an older person living alone cuts through the silence, even if it is a conversation with a device. Today, one-third of adults aged 65+ live alone. The future: Broadband, voice, and AI are mission critical for senior living.

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APRIL 10, 2024

With the boom in scam innovation , government initiatives and new tech emerges regularly to stop or eliminate scamming of seniors. Assume that people aging in place just think of themselves as, you know, just living. Assume that, as baby boomers, they can afford to plan ahead – and they do in many dimensions of their lives.

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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. Companies like Carlton Senior Living offload staff informational tasks to chatbots, freeing staff for other work. category tags: Home Care , home health care , senior living , AI and machine learning

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

Or that home care a parallel universe to senior living. Or they move loved ones to senior living. Senior living companies (and families) augment limited staff with home care workers. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , senior living , Family caregivers , AgeTech

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

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. CareMerge is in the Argentum, Senior Living Supplier catalog). Rendever Senior Living.

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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

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

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.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

The federal “Money Follows the Person” was introduced in 2005 to enable seniors to avoid them and receive Medicaid-paid services. Or was it the senior living industry that seized their business? Even with full-time jobs or living many states away? Seniors and families need them? Who exactly?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 29, 2023

Perhaps the Medicare scam call reaches someone in a senior living community who is obviously Medicare-eligible. Consider that 44% of women aged 75+ live alone. category tags: smartphones, cellphones , seniors and aging policy , Seniors Perhaps it doesn’t proceed to fraud, but it is fraudulent, nonetheless.

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Medicare 129

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

AI is more established in marketing , even in senior-related businesses. Botco’s chatbot technology has been deployed at Carlton Senior Living. Also, if you missed it, here is the 2023 Market Overview Technology for Aging category tags: AI and machine learning , Generative AI , healthcare , senior living

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The odds are good these days that the 50-65 are still working and can afford where they live. The numbers of care recipients in home care, senior living, and adult day services has likely crossed 5 million people by now. category tags: aging in place , AgeTech , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection

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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

JULY 26, 2023

And the term wandered over briefly to assisted living. From the survey: " My mom was able to live independently in her home until she was 95." Or will they want to move to some sort of senior-living community, average age 84 , with activities and shared meals?

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Telehealth 118

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The solution offers a new option for senior living communities to improve safety and care while protecting privacy and simplifying daily life for residents and staff. By passively moni t oring movement patterns via thermal sensors, Butlr Care can alert caregivers when seniors need assistance.

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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. The new GUIDE program will support caregivers and ‘enable people living with dementia to remain in their homes and communities.’ Or they move loved ones to senior living.

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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. Please add me to today’s trip” or “Could someone fix a light for me?”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

What hasn’t changed much – tech deployment in senior care. According to the 2020 Senior Living, COVID-19 and Technology Survey and Report , over a third of communities reported having poor or nonexistent Wi-Fi and bandwidth capability." Given the staffing crisis in long-term care , maybe technology’s time has come. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Further, 42% of women aged 75+ live alone. Senior living – unless a very expensive house is sold – is not within reach. category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living So by now, you’d expect lots of helpful ideas to proliferate. In what year?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 16, 2022

The PHI analysis also looks at the demographics of aides who work in nursing homes, residential care (aka senior living) and home care – noting the biggest labor growth projection (and likely shortfall) in home care aides. category tags: Home Care , home health care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , tech-enabled home care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The death rates from Covid-19 (or with Covid-19) of seniors in nursing homes and assisted living were horrific on the one hand and daunting to prospective move-ins. million are aged 85+ -- not surprisingly the approximate move-in age to senior living – 1.4 Senior living occupancy dropped to just 79.5%

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

million in senior living communities, including nursing homes. Some senior living providers have been ahead of the game for some time with telehealth, like Asbury Communities and Holiday Retirement -- offering services for residents at times when physicians cannot be on site. This applies to caring for and treating the 2.5

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 9, 2020

It would be nice to think that the oldest adults at home or in senior living are Skyping, Zooming, Facetiming away. Not much chance to mitigate the isolation from family in locked-down nursing homes or assisted living. category tags: covid-19 , Aging technology , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , smartphones, cell phones.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

But they also exposed gaps of capability in senior-focused communities. These issues will only be better understood as senior housing communities are surveyed, and it is possible to figure out what policy or business changes have made a difference. Nursing homes and senior living communities will all have Wi-Fi for residents.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

Other counties with serious caregiving labor shortages see the possibilities – and if anything the US senior care industry is late to the party. AI chatbots will be built into senior living concierge services. Training an AI chatbot on the various services and schedules offered by a senior living community will be required.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What technologies can help mitigate this growing labor crisis in the senior care (home care, home health care, senior living, long-term-care) services market? It continues to be a struggle to fully enable the senior care service industries with high-speed internet capability. AT THE EDGE: Alert without Wi-Fi.

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JUNE 27, 2023

It demands efficiencies and technologies that have continued to largely elude home care and senior living industries. But can AI really help with senior care work? In the meantime, why not ask ChatGPT – “What is the future of AI and senior care work?” Can use of AI help care organizations and their workers?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

Certainly one factor is the growth in the number of older adults living alone , including 44% of women aged 75+. And in New York State, the rollout of AI companion robot ElliQ to 800 seniors reportedly resulted in a "95% reduction in loneliness. category tags: social isolation , AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In senior living or home care, permission to track this type of information is likely (hopefully) given at the onboarding of a new care recipient or resident. Or they could extend time in a senior living home, prior to moving to a higher level of care. Some worry the industry cannot recover.

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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? For older adults in need, they need to call someone.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But for night shift monitoring of residents, it seems unimaginable that senior living organizations would continue to cobble together temp workers to fill shifts of hall-walking staffers. And moving forward, who is likely to fall, in senior living, but also in home health and private duty home care settings. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 14, 2019

As they do so, they will force industries to change offerings – and drive considerable change in technology that underpins their lives. Today's emerging trends are showing that: Older adults live and work longer. Only 10% of the senior population moves to senior living , and to preserve their savings, they do so at a later date.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Senior living companies are promoting the watch for residents. In fact, senior living companies are adding the role of tech concierge to their teams. category tags: Aging, ageism , AgeTech , smartphones , wearables, smartwatch , tablets. Which brings us right back to where we started. See vendor empathy.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

They will have widespread use in independent and senior living, since many older adults will bring them along at move-in time. It’s not just seniors who need help. Cyber-Seniors trains young people to be technology tutors for older adults. Sensor technology shrinks – and changes form.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Life has been worsening for older adults – in senior living and at home. Residents in senior living communities are having a tough time , cut off from activities and visits from family. The pandemic has likely transformed the senior-focused ecosystem. Social isolation of older adults – a problem and an opportunity.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2020

Seniors and technology – change is in the airwaves. Consider five intriguing examples – please send or comment with others if you have them: Aegis Living’s new Youtube channel pilot, Aegis Live. Learn more at: Senior Living News. Holiday Retirement, the largest independent senior living provider in the U.S.,

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