Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

As 2022 begins, the oldest baby boomer turns 76. Because of the sheer size of the older adult market, and the wealth of baby boomers, vendors increasingly see them as constituents for new offerings. Smart displays and voice first interfaces will be ubiquitous. Voice interfaces will be expected in smart displays and apps.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 11, 2023

Room-based monitoring? Yelling "Help" to a Smart Speaker ? Monitoring centers like AvantGuard and LifeStation are beneficiaries of this continued problem, as quantified by the CDC. See future -- by 2030 all baby boomers will be 65+. Having a panic button connected to Alexa ?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A conundrum – will less healthy baby boomers be among the centenarians? Baby boomers may have a longer life expectancy at 65 than their parents – most likely due to availability of more sophisticated health care and medications. Wearables, remote patient monitoring. Smart systems. Social, Learning. Digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

As the oldest Baby Boomer turns 73 this year, vendor interest in tech for older adults reaches all the way from (A) Apple to (Z) Zanthion. billion by 2022 -- the year the oldest baby boomer turns 76. In 2009, the market was forecast to be $20 billion by 2020. . All of that has changed by 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Another study noted that the average family caregiver is a baby boomer woman. Click here to for the Technology for Aging 2023 Market Overview category tags: Family caregivers , seniors and aging policy Notable at the end of 2022, the Administration for Community Living published the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As 2022 begins, the oldest baby boomer turns 76. Because of the sheer size of the older adult market, and the wealth of baby boomers, vendors increasingly see them as constituents for new offerings. Amazon’s Alexa Together wants to help monitor falls of older adults in senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

Of course the aging of the baby boomers (oldest are age 73) is on the minds of lots of businesses and government groups, for various reasons. Some talk about smart toothbrushes or shower nozzles – but not in the context of caregivers and older adults. Technology and aging R&D – who knew about this task force?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

category tags: baby boomers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Home Care , IoT and home monitoring , Voice Assistants/Smart Speakers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. This change will no doubt drive 2019 interest in labor-saving caregiving technology in both home care and senior living settings.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Baby boomers are aging and want to stay in their homes as long as feasible. Many will need to be monitored in their home for chronic diseases and in-home risk of falling – Amazon noticed with Alexa Together – Verizon noticed with its Care Smart Watch. Soon all 54 million of them will be over 65.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Second, the proliferation of gadget introductions targeting seniors appears to have slowed down, and the use of standard platforms (smartphones, tablets, computers, smart speakers and smart watches) ramped up. Last week they announced two features of a new watch, ECG monitoring and fall detection.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

Elder Home Monitoring 2.0 – it may fill a growing need. These may signal not only the next generation of in-home monitoring, but also the next generation of predictive analytics used to help older adults stay longer at home and/or out of the hospital. These sensors monitor your loved ones’ activities and feed information to our app.

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