Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The 2023 Technology for Aging Market Overview is published. With the establishment of the term AgeTech at CES 2023 , the formal interest in the market of offerings for older adults has now been established. But the tech has changed – now sensors offer non-wearable, Wi-Fi and room-based fall detection (even in a steam shower).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

AARP sponsored an entire large area for its AgeTech Summit – talks and displays of new tech for an older adult market, cataloguing participants in an online directory. market upon the exhibition at CES 2023." Touchpoints Digital Health wearable. " Learn more from press release. Healables. "M Learn more. Rise Gardens. "W

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

How should marketers view content creation in this new world? Portable devices and wearable intelligence: Gadgets that can track physical activity, detect falls, or alert emergency services 1 2. Some examples are: Fitbit: A wearable device that can monitor heart rate, sleep quality, steps, calories burned, etc 1.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 11, 2023

Since then, Medical Guardian became a market leader ($100 million investment from WaterStreet ), with Florence Henderson as spokesperson and Ruth Bader Ginsberg as a customer. market and believe that it has a low penetration rate into the potential market of worried older adults or their physicians and families.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Future growth of that category may slow due to market saturation or possible innovation cutbacks from vendors like Amazon and Google. The traditional PERS pendant industry’s growth is slowing and vendors are stepping into the reimbursed Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) market. Voice assistants and hearing aids. Health and wellness.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The original Lifeline business was a pioneer of this market segment, building up a business that included doctor-referral, a senior-aware trained call center and multiple channel partners, including the home security segment. Their goal was purportedly to take market share from Philips Lifeline. Was that a good thing? Which they did.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2023

The more things change in the PERS/medical alert industry… Long ago (10 years, to be exact), a survey report plus future market predictions was published. The wearables improved and so did cameras and room sensing. category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection , Remote monitoring , AI and machine learning

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

But there was also an awakening to the significance of aging in place , the investment category of older adults , the market power of older adults , including the 65+ population of 54 million. 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.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 29, 2023

High price: Google Glass was initially priced at $1,500, which was much more expensive than other wearable devices on the market. In addition to these reasons, Google Glass also faced challenges from other wearable devices, such as smartwatches and fitness trackers. It was developed by Google and was first released in 2013.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The investor and technology market, historically known for tech ageism, is beginning to wake up to the AgeTech opportunity. 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? DETECT THE FALLS: Detect without a wearable.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. Video visits, infrared temperature sensors, mobile health, and wearables replace the need for clinic visits.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

Among so many choices, here are 10 offerings in the markets of aging and/or disability, that are shown at CES 2024, described in media releases or on their websites, and may be available now or in the future: Bosch Sensortec MEMS sensors. Learn more. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

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. Here are just four of the trends identified in the 2022 Market Overview, Technology for Aging. . Hearing technology markets will be further disrupted in 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2020, focus sharpens on technology market categories of aging and caregiving. What other changes matter for this market? Wearables became more visible – on the wrist and in the market. Amid market disruption, hearables market begins to resonate – and grow.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Exec Summary: The pain management market is experiencing exciting growth, driven by several key trends: Increased Demand: Chronic pain prevalence: Chronic pain affects a significant portion of the population, with an aging demographic further increasing demand. The global pain management market is expected to reach $3.3

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2020

In January, for example, Parks Associates sized the PERS market to be $1.1 This may be a first pass that precedes a future call center deal – last time it was VRI, which today markets its response services as VRIcares. Perhaps its current market landscape has a set of PERS call center players already networked. billion by 2024.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

These should be of particular note to startups and tech companies that want to reach the older adult market. Look for non-wearable and radar-based fall detection devices (such as shower attachments and floor mats) that predict onset of a fall or a blood pressure change. Disruptions in the hearing technology market will persist.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Now it is all around – it characterizes AARP’s recently convened AgeTech Collaborative to ‘accelerate and scale new solutions for the 50+ market.’ Age-Tech has its own Market Map as developed by Keren Etkin, Gerontechnologist. 2021 was a year of research about wearables and smart homes – plus a fully updated Market Overview.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

By June 2021, they partnered with Black&Decker to offer more PERS capabilities – a wearable with fall detection, but maybe that lacked a wow factor. Otherwise the market has moved on. Can it still be long battery life, the much-marketed feature of traditional PERS? So what else matters to the user?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2022

Affiliate marketing (pay to play) is the name of this search game. Should vendors improve their web marketing, as PERS Insider advises? This category (and its much-marketed terminology) is quite literally old news. Compare that to PERS $1-2 billion market. Ditto ‘ConsumerAffairs.com.’ Best and worst companies – more ads.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2023

The story of that invention, particularly the context of an AT&T monopoly of the time period, is instructive about what it takes to get an innovation into the market – when many are involved, including government agencies, and obstacles, in-house and competitors, are all around. The cell phone – imagine a connected life without it.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

See Market Overview Technology for Aging 2024 ] category tags: smartphones , wearables, smart watch , tablets , AgeTech

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

In particular, it is great to see the emergence of Primetime Partners , specifically focused on the aging-related market opportunity. The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , wearables, smart watch , IoT and home monitoring , healthcare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Why it could open a whole new market of watch buyers and upgraders. Apple marketers know history, and they know that fear (and guaranteed response) sells. And don't forget to look at the latest report, the updated Market Overview Technology for Aging 2022 ]. category tags: wearables, smart watch , Mobile PERS , PERS.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2023

In addition to the government-supported discount on broadband access, the report recommended “uture-focused tools and assistive technology, such as smart homes, wearable blood pressure and heart monitoring devices, automated pill dispensers, e-learning modules, task management apps, speech amplification and adaptation systems, and geo-tracking.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

As the market evolves, early cancer detection pathways will become mainstream, and synergistic CDx (companion diagnostic) tests will foster this new standard in cancer care. The global telehealth market will reach nearly $50 billion in 2021, and be embedded in virtual care. billion in the US alone.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 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. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , SNF , seniors and aging policy , AI and machine learning. The four posts for November 2022: AI matters for older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

And the explosion of wearables to help us stay well – or at least be remotely monitored – see Health Populi and the 7WireVentures Market Map. But maybe not always so independently: consider the post-Covid rise of the Medical Home , the rise of ’virtual first’ visits and telehealth care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

The watch changed the landscape for wearables. Since the introduction of the Apple Watch in 2014 and its subsequent sales of more than 33 million (as of 2020), Apple has been the dominant player in the US market. The home care market is (still) a booming business opportunity.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Large events like Leading Age, Argentum, and sub-events within CES and HIMSS all point to the business potential that draws startups as well as new offerings from existing players – in what may become an increasingly crowded market. category tags: healthcare , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , home health care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2019

You are increasingly likely to have a wearable -- around your neck or on your wrist. For those who see a wearable in a health context, they may be disappointed to know that their doctor doesn’t seem to care or know what to do with your heart rhythm data. What are the benefits of wearables today -- and in the future?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Already a proven care tech device in the European market and senior living facilities in the U.S., U ltra-lightweight walking assist wearable robot that aims to promote healthy living through daily walking exercise. category tags: AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline , robotics , hearables/hearing technology Nobi Ceiling.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

When Apple speaks, a puzzled market listens. Is Apple attempting to open a new older-adult market, the 65+ population, to buy an Apple watch? There are a few standalone fall detectors on the market – here’s an example list with more on the way – most connect the user to a call center. When Apple announces, industries listen.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

It is the only solution in the market that can support building hearing aids from premium consumer audio components, by pairing high quality hearing performance with extremely low power consumption and low memory usage. It provides caregivers with continuous insight and increased visibility into their loved one’s well-being. iCardioGuard.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2018

That blueprint depends on the enthusiasm and foresight of innovators and leaders of technology companies that focus on the boomer-senior market, increasingly offering Voice First interfaces to new capabilities. category tags: wearables, smart watch , Mobile PERS , voice/AI technology , IoT and home monitoring , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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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. Note that 51% of 5000 responders in this 2020 global marketing survey worry about voice assistants listening to them without their consent. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Aging, ageism.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

When the 2009 Market Overview was completed a decade ago, there were gadgets galore, most introduced with maximum enthusiasm and a shoestring of cash. Here are eight of the 33 new offerings from the 2019 Market Overview (material from the vendor/news sites) that deserve a closer look – future posts will highlight others: Starkey Livio.

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