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How Verizon is disrupting telehealth in surprising ways

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Is the 3G Sunsetting the equivalent of Y2K for Older Adults?

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The big three carriers (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile) are motoring ahead with this switchover to enable them to free up, as they say, faster and more reliable bandwidth. At this point, replacing a flip phone with a flip phone is a poor choice for both Verizon and the user. Will that be the case with the 3G-to-5G network transition?

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What use is a PERS smart watch without a call center?

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Then in April, Verizon does it again, launches a PERS, this time a smart watch offering, called the Care Smart Watch for seniors. Let us remember Verizon’s last short attention span for this space. The quotes are from executive Jonathan Hinds who departed in 2014, not coincidentally when Verizon stopped selling it.

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The Tech Support Chasm -- tough to cross for older adults

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And other phone sellers – like Verizon and AT&T , for example, offer very little support in the store past initial device setup, with primary tech support via phone – or as with Sprint, via a moderated online community. And last, but perhaps not least, there is a Total Tech membership from Best Buy’s The Geek Squad.

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Five notable technology offerings for older adults

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The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Verizon Care Smart Watch. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , wearables, smart watch , IoT and home monitoring , healthcare. The last was offered by a giant US network. Learn m ore.

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Did you miss one? Four Aging and Health Tech Blog Posts June 2023

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This chart came from a report, The Future of Home Care Technology 2012 that was sponsored by Microsoft, Verizon and LivHome, in 2012. See recent report: The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 category tags: AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , Home Care , tech-enabled home care

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Pendent medical alerts evolve – and will disappear

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Is Philips throwing in the towel, now that Verizon, MobileHelp , UnaliWear , FallCall Lite (Apple) – all have caregiving smartwatches with watch faces (and there's even Trelawear's necklace ) that are unobtrusive? category tags: PERS , Mobile PERS , wearables, smart watch , fall prevention, fall detection.

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