Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

Trends accelerated by the pandemic continue to emerge, and the population aged 50+ will continue to purchase and use technology, accounting for an estimated 51% of technology spending by 2030. Smart displays and voice-first interfaces will be ubiquitous. Sensor technology shrinks and changes form for health care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The 2023 Technology for Aging Market Overview is published. But it is notable in 2023 that: Older adults will adapt to change and adopt new technology. If an affordable technology can be found that meets a personal need (or answers a compelling question ), these days, people will find it and get it to work for them.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

Our cutting-edge sensor technology enhances the capabilities of hearables and provides manufacturers with innovative features including gesture and context recognition, speech processing and voice enhancement, as well as precise head orientation tracking. Learn more. It scans a person's face, primarily focusing on blood flow analysis.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

Then there is software from Volara (now owned by Uniguest , available as part of T ouchtown Voice ) offer tech concierge services that can help save staff some effort supporting individual users. All useful, but first one must search and find the site, locate the proper video to play. . What about voice? Thoughts welcome.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Voice technology in 2022 – living up to hope and hype? By 2018, it seemed possible that Voice First technology (and its associated AI software) could transform the technology user experience for older adults (see report: The Future of Voice First Technology and Older Adults 2018 ).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Over the last few years, a growing number of applications of AI and machine learning have entered the market of caregiving technology for older adults. AI is a fundamental machine-learning element in voice technology , which is here to stay, despite the noisy racket about Amazon. Netherlands-based Envision.ai

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

All that and more make up the new entrants in the 2021 Market Overview of Technology for Aging, to be published by the week of January 11. The availability of a growing trove of data about our behavior has enabled the ever-smarter world of voice interactions and sensors. Voice first technology – in everything.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

But this is January, 2021, in the time of Covid-19 and the time of the all digital Consumer Electronics Show -- this time with at least 70,000 online attendees from around the world and the tech industry -- and so new companies are surfacing with technologies that will generate interest and even excitement during 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Given the early user base of ChatGPT (optimizing language models for dialogue), 100 million within the first few months, clearly developers, investors, and consumers agree. As with all new technologies throughout history, the hype cycle prevails. This is the case with ChatGPT. And then there's ChatGPT -- in a class by itself.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Starting with the older one (“ Ridiculously symmetrical and highly unusable ”) to the most recent Siri remote – where they give up on usable buttons and enable changing the channel by voice. Why voice interfaces cover a multitude of design sins. No wonder it makes more sense to talk to it. But in the meantime, simplicity reigns.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

Voice tech is pervasive – for some, but hardware market adoption may be slowing. The last published eMarketer survey in 2019 sized the software voice assistant (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa et al.) The last published eMarketer survey in 2019 sized the software voice assistant (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa et al.) million.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

Fewer workers available invites technology augmentation. In other industries when there are severe labor shortages, companies seek and deploy technology that saves labor cost and/or mitigates the effect of shortages in stores , restaurants, and hotels , for example. How about the care-related industries?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

In 2023, the company's first international destination will be the United States, a country with a mature population." J abra Enhance Plus sets a new standard for bringing together the convenience of true wireless earbuds with advanced hearing technology to alleviate unaddressed hearing needs. Learn more from press release. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Voice-enabled innovation softly races ahead. Technology innovation announcements whiz by at what seems to be a breakneck pace. Not just for insomniacs, imagine its utility for the faint-voiced older adult wanting to ask a question. Or in-Car voice technology like Garmin Speak-Plus for directions without a screen (that’s a plus).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2022

Look at the list of accessibility options on an iPhone – and see if a few of those like AssistiveTouch or Voice Control could be of use to some older people). Eventually we may discover that voice interfaces will replace the other methods of interactions, including accessibility settings and beyond.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Voice-enabled innovation softly races ahead. Technology innovation announcements whiz by at what seems to be a breakneck pace. Not just for insomniacs, imagine its utility for the faint-voiced older adult wanting to ask a question. The monitoring system is voice activated, eliminating the need for wearable devices.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Technology solutions augment care – not replacing family or support. Care-related service organizations are taking a closer look at technologies that could help them cope more effectively with staffing shortages and other issues. For all ages, isolation is increasingly untenable without the technology to connect to others.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

That’s fun: Open Control Center, tap Mic Mode, then tap Voice Isolation to make sure your voice comes through loud and clear. But if iOS 16 was their first encounter with an iPhone or iPad, good luck. AARP and OATS do not focus on technology training for iPads. More young folk. See ‘Reduce background noise.’

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

One might well argue that Amazon has and will continue to have a major impact on the quality of life for older adults (assuming senior privacy concerns and technology barriers to adoption are overcome – more on that another time): Offered low-price Voice First devices.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Older adults benefit from voice-AI enabled innovation and deployment. For one thing, at least two-thirds of older adults (age 70+) own smartphones , the 65+ population prefers Alexa among voice assistants , one-third of Americans have smart speakers. Researchers want to understand how best to create a voice assistant.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2020, focus sharpens on technology market categories of aging and caregiving. AARP published a new report that showed growing interest in technology among those aged 70+. Voice first technology – it’s everywhere and in everything. The hearing technology market is seeing disruption from multiple angles.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Is the healthcare consumer ready for voice assistants? There is a technology overhaul underway – the biggest change in user experience since the introduction of the web browser in 1991. From Voice recognition technology to Smart Speakers to Voice Assistants, it is now pervasive – in the year 2020, 50% of all searches will be by voice.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 11, 2023

While startups were MANY that sought a presence in the older adult technology marketplace , now known as AgeTech , many firms were there who had been at CES before. Somalytics sensors are disruptive because they deliver greater sensitivity in a smaller size and at a lower cost than other available sensor technologies. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Once upon a time, a new technology user interface was mostly just annoying. It’s almost quaint to look back at what we complained about – though some of the famous user interface disasters are well-described in a Scientific American article – Windows 8, BMW iDrive, TV remotes. At some point, the user gets mad.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

Technology usage has climbed sharply during Covid-19. A technology transformation is underway, greater than the sum of its parts. First the confusion. Not just telehealth, but robots for cleaning or engagement technologies to mitigate isolation are ramping up.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Of course, a cockpit is an appropriate term – imagine a pilot sitting down in the left seat of an airplane with zero training on what to touch first. Voice control – does that fix everything? See 2024 Market Overview, Technology for Aging ] category tags: Television/Smart TV , smart home , vehicle/transportation technology-services

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Here are just four of the trends identified in the 2022 Market Overview, Technology for Aging. . Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the Digital Health technology categories. . Smart displays and voice first interfaces will be ubiquitous.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2021

One of these was the Longevity Health & Innovation Summit , which featured numerous longevity and technology experts as well as a pitch challenge. All these events provide a platform for innovation competitions, presentations, collaborations and networking among funders and innovators in the age-related technology market segments.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2020

One of the more striking aspects of the flood of Voice First innovations is the near-feverish pace – predictions turn into practice faster than a device can say “Hello.” By then, thorny questions about privacy, personalization, and patient-doctor voice communication will be closer to resolution. Who is speaking?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. 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.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2021

You might remember AbleData – a product registry of 40,000 mobility aids and assistive technologies. Here are the four blog posts from March 2020: The trumpets sounded loudly at the arrival of Voice First. The Future of Voice First and Older Adults was published in February of 2018. What happened?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

Remember when voice first technology became ‘voice’. don’t match the US Census ( 56 million ) which should be the final arbiter for both. However, the fault is less with the tools than with the mediocre data available,,infrequently updated even with basic statistics.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a given -- Voice First will be even more pervasive in 2020. The rapid growth of the market for voice-enabled technologies has been a phenomenon within the past two years that can understand spoken requests and commands, answer questions, and even offer scheduled alerts. But is that true? Your thoughts are welcome.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This post is the first of two about 2023 notable offerings. Butlr Care. "Butlr, a leading provider of anonymous people-sensing technology, today announced the availability of Butlr Care. Butlr also announced partnerships with leading solution providers that are deploying the technology." Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Voice First and the Apple Watch had not emerged. It also features ITRI's LPMS (Low Power Microwave Sensor) technology, which passed the FDA-level electromagnetic wave radiation EMC/EMI test by the IEC60601-1/IEC60606-2 regulation." and what/who is still around. Laptops were hot (remember the Ultrabook?) Fast forward to 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2020

The 2020 Market Overview of Technology for Aging is now online. This includes smartphones, tablets, smart home technology, Voice First hardware and virtual assistants, and in-home sensors. Aloe Care is delivering the world's first voice-activated, in-home digital care assistant for older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2018

You probably knew this – that 2018 was the year of voice tech and healthcare. As for 2019, according to Sara Holoubek, CEO of Luminary Labs , "expect a proliferation of bad voice experiences." . As for Bixby, its features can be integrated with Samsung Health (Mobile First) – for example, activity stats.

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