Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Butlr also announced partnerships with leading solution providers that are deploying the technology." CareYaya. " CareYaya is the fastest-growing health-tech startup in America, solving home care for those with elderly loved ones and medically vulnerable children. category tags: caregivers , Home Care , senior living , AgeTech

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The underwear current includes biometric sensors that measure things like sleep quality, activity, stress level, temperature, and electrocardiography (ECG)*. Myant’s platform analyzes the data, provides guidance on lifestyle changes, and allows users to share information with healthcare providers." Learn more. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Look at the ten years or more between the first wave of useful sensor tech for seniors (2005 with GrandCare Systems ) until the newer collection of offerings. This was also true of the Personal Sound Amplification Product” (PSAP), described in 2017 as being helpful to people with mild to moderate hearing loss. Feedback is welcome.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

CTA Foundation (as part of CES and Eureka Park ) sponsored its Accessibility Contest which featured tech for people with vision, hearing, or physical limitations. The Aeo was designed to be a helper, with features that include the ability to deliver food and medicine to older adults. Learn more from press release. Healables. "M

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

Also notable, considering that most wearables are still paired with them, smartphone ownership has risen most sharply among the 70+, with 77% of survey responders indicating they own one. Integrating fall detection with 24x7 call centers is increasingly expected and offered. . More when there’s more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

But here are 'answers': Bing Chat: There are many AI-enabled technologies that are available today to help older adults with various aspects of their health and well-being. 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

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The timing is right – as 56 million Americans are now aged 65+, looming older population growth has awakened the sleeping giant. It continues to be a struggle to fully enable the senior care service industries with high-speed internet capability. HEAR BETTER WITH OTC HEARING AIDS: Sell directly to those in need. Stay tuned!].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

The pictures associated with some of these introductions of technology were bleak. When she is settled comfortably after dinner, she has an online session (launched by her son) with grandchildren using her tablet that is now on her tray table. The attorney general of Massachusetts supplied 750 tablets to nursing home residents.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

The continuing desire to age at home , Medicare rate cuts combined with staffing shortages , affordability of home care reaching smaller percentage of the people who need it , shortage of available workers – all seem like the perfect storm. Research has already shown that AI can help with many aspects of older adult care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 11, 2018

Empower caregivers to learn how to deliver the best care to older adults with the support, guidance, and compassion needed to improve their quality of life. Today CareAcademy provides home care agencies with a best in class online education platform.” Maybe your loved one just needs help with a few household tasks this afternoon.

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JULY 6, 2022

In addition to the online portal, Honor Expert provides human interaction by allowing users to call the helpline and connect directly with a professional social worker, removing the friction and frustration that families often face when researching problems and seeking solutions." Learn more. Meet Caregivers. Learn more. Learn more.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

A long time ago, one writer published a charmingly-named CES overview of CES 2012 called CES in Pajamas – an entertaining read with links to 2012 videos just to see what flopped, what was canceled (remember Microsoft Kinect ?) It provides caregivers with continuous insight and increased visibility into their loved one’s well-being.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It was filled with tech from wall-to-wall and bus ride to bus ride. With sore feet and tired brain, vowing never to attend in person again (having said this multiple times over the years). Who knew that Covid-19 was about to take over the world -- and with it, the world of events? Learn more. Kinesis Balance App. Learn more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Paddy Padmanabhan The markets are buzzing with the latest Rock Health report on funding for digital health in the first half of 2021. Health systems are rapidly transforming their healthcare delivery models with online access and patient engagement tools, remote monitoring and other virtual care modalities.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Behold the rise of the active adult lifestyle, now enabled with a boom in 55+ rental communities. Combine that change with the ‘ Forgotten Middle Market’ of senior living. By 2030, 20% of the US population will be over the age of 65 -- and likely to be obese and living for at least 8 years with some level of disability.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The WSJ article then hammered the point, finding people who are estranged from their relatives and with one to talk to, are left on the floor in a doorway, unable to yell loud enough to be heard, or they are home alone decorating for the holidays, which brings us to…. category tags: social isolation , social media , PERS.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 25, 2018

Tech companies and their partners continue to propel forward, with new ideas, innovations, products. Consider that April offered up the winners of the Stanford Design Challenge – a computer-integrated bicycle handle with blind spot warning and fall detection and emergency alert. April Showers, Innovation and Spring flowers.

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Medicine and Technology

JULY 23, 2013

Unlike some others, I haven't lost my Fitbit and I haven't accidentally thrown it into the wash with the rest of my laundry. I was even a Zeo sleep headband user (but they closed their company). The Shine syncs with my iPhone and it also tells time in 5 min increments since it has 12 dots that light up. Want to go for a swim?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

mcare Home Health Hub, which gives caregivers of all types – from physicians and pharmacists to home care providers or family members – the ability to see and speak to elderly or disabled dependents and confirm compliance with medication treatment plans from anywhere. The two-way video capabilities of the ?mcare

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

And even in our most cynical moments, we can all hearken back to our grandmothers’ kitchen table wisdom for dealing with skin issues, the flu, and broken hearts. Dad owned the “rack” in his clients’ stores and filled that shelf with whatever over-the-counter products the store needed replacing based on shoppers’ demands.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Voice First -- The year began and ended with speaking. Strolling is not the right word, but as we approached the Las Vegas Convention Center last January, Google Assistant was on giant billboards all around – with competing and nearby giant Amazon Alexa signs. And shouting. The VCs cared, all right – if that money was an indicator.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Lots of negative tech energy in 2018, including healthcare data breaches , Facebook’s loss of trust , ditto with Google and its much discussed anti-competitive positioning in search. No doubt they would have been viewed in person with more time and better tennis shoes at the Sands Convention Center.

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Insulin Nation

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Women living with type 1 diabetes have a five times greater risk for heart failure than nondiabetic women. As a young or newly diagnosed woman with type 1, it can be disheartening to look at the stats associated with T1D and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Find an Exercise Routine That You Can Stick With.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 13, 2017

Here’s a jet-lagged and sleep-deprived look at five of the trends that we saw from the first three days of the conference: 1. Pharmaceutical companies are coming to terms with the limits and costs of designing better insulin, and generic or biosimilar insulins are entering the marketplace.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 8, 2018

Last week the soft-spoken, silver haired Frenchman bought back Withings from Nokia for an undisclosed sum, making the company he founded in 2008 private once again. There’s also a blood pressure monitor, baby-monitoring camera, and a mat that tracks your sleep. Withings was smaller and growing at a slower-pace. he told Forbes.

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Waracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

These devices, combined with rich sensor data, integrated apps, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics, will help to connect healthcare providers, patients and medical records systems across the world. The other key driver is mobile. How the IoMT Will Ease The Burden Of An Ageing Population.

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TheraNest

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Some of that marketing involves forming relationships with allied health professionals such pediatricians, family practitioners, and internists. Imagine that a potential customer, Hugh, is new to camping and wants to buy a tent, propane stove, and some sleeping bags. Here you go,” she says with a smile. “By

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

Several companies noted were at CES or with announcements at or around that time offered up the possible – a dashboard or collected insights about the wellbeing of an older adult at home. Open the app to find data that shows whether your loved one is eating, sleeping normally and moving around. Learn more at StaySmartCare.

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TheraNest

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Some of that marketing involves forming relationships with allied health professionals such as pediatricians, family practitioners, and internists. Imagine that a potential customer, Hugh, is new to camping and wants to buy a tent, propane stove, and some sleeping bags. Here you go,” she says with a smile. “By

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

While there are many reasons to collect data, David was working on a project with a client to gather data for competitive analysis and enable them to stay ahead of their competition without hours of manual data searching, entry, cleaning, and review. Step 3: Open browser with bot. Using a bot to open and navigate through a website.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

It is being updated regularly with more vendors. Remote patient monitoring technologies are akin to telemedicine technologies, since they automatically observe and report on patients, often with chronic illnesses, so caregivers can remotely keep tabs on patients.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 8, 2022

But this very-global show went on anyway , this time with 40,000 in person ( down from 171,000 just two years ago.) As with prior CES events, multiple new technologies that benefit older adults were showcased from around the world. Learn more. Hyundai MobED. PoseFit requires no wearable devices to operate. Not yet available.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2019

The highlight of this document published in June – from age 60 to 80 and beyond, older adults spend more time on their screens (watching TV or videos) than on anything else other than sleep. But 14% of people in their 70s are still working, according to Pew, along with 4% of people in their 80s. And that includes time spent working.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

Through cameras installed inside the household, the solution can detect the motions and postures of beloved family members with AI and release warning messages at the moment of danger, such as falling, sitting too long, leaving home without a clear reason, etc. the app will give off an alarm to notify all family members. Kytera Companion.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 28, 2021

Examples of health projects being reassigned include consumer-facing products like sleep tracking tech with its Nest Hub smart home devices, Fitbit wearables, clinical initiatives like its Care Studio EHR search tool and health AI tools previously with Deepmind. Author: Lloyd Price. lloydgprice

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Here are five of these offerings from 2019 HIMSS, viewed with the lens of caregiving and older adults. . We are now having access to an extensive database of over 150K patient records with over 1 Million anonymized voice recordings. Patients can view their medical records and securely share with their healthcare providers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

If there was a key trend in all of this racket, Sleep has become a tech obsession, the uptake of Digital Health is almost here, new variants of companions and assistants were pervasive, including Google Assistant inside everything and Amazon voice devices everywhere. Self-service increasingly matters in unexpected health categories.

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