Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Pew hasn’t bothered lately, but AARP recently published a survey of tech ownership among the 50+. How do tech firms and insurers overcome this reluctance? This is laudable. With persuasion?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

The PERS conundrum – who is the user and what do they want and need? to Garmin’s effort (it’s active women!) that makers of smartwatches do not know who the user is or what they want. Tech vendors appear to want to meet the need of an older adult who avoids owning a smartphone. Anybody own a portable vac?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2020

The quotes are from executive Jonathan Hinds who departed in 2014, not coincidentally when Verizon stopped selling it. These non-professional ‘care circles’ are comprised of people who might be traveling, at dinner (with other relatives), or just plain unreachable. Let us remember Verizon’s last short attention span for this space.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

However, as the photo history of phones shows, the trick is to select solutions, not tech, with staying power and support services to buffer organizations and individuals from the harshest impact of change. Aging in place requires a home free from obstacles and dangers, especially for the 44% of women aged 75+ who live alone.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

72% of residents are women, most are age 85+, and as noted, 'many also have only a small group of family and friends for support.' So where is tech-enabled transparency in all of this? There are numerous reasons why nursing homes help families who otherwise could not provide adequate care. So many of the 1.5

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Network with non-entrepreneurs -- those who can understand the offering and see a practical context into which it fits. Incontinence affects 25 million people in the US, and half of women over 50. You know someone who deals with it- someone who can’t always make it to the bathroom in time or get through the day without a leak.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

Certainly one factor is the growth in the number of older adults living alone , including 44% of women aged 75+. In another pilot program, Talking Tech , participants were surveyed as being less lonely following increased technology literacy and access to tools to connect with others and boost social interactions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2019

Who is ‘they’, how much can they ‘get’, and is there insurance that pays for them? The majority of responders were women, though in the general population hearing loss affects twice as many men as women – one study in 2011 attempted to figure out why men are less regular users – concluding that poor handling of the devices was a factor.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Consider the Chicago Tribune article about tech for aging in place. Women will outlive men by a few years – living on average into their late 80s. They may struggle financially – including the 15% of women who rely primarily on Social Security income. What will be the context at that time? Welcome to iPad!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 29, 2020

Note the wave of announcements of 'free' tech services and sea changes. Side-effect: Covid-19 Should Close the Remaining Older Adult Tech Gap. Tackling Covid-19’s social isolation of seniors – one tech at a time. Covid-19 and Senior Living’s growing use of tech. The older adult coronavirus statistics skew toward oldest.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Data and tech can re-define new experiences,” she said. And that’s true for health care as well as generic retail, Marge asserted, introducing Deborah Weinswig who is CEO and Founder, Coresight Research. The tag line of the book is how AI can help humanize health care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

Technology and aging R&D – who knew about this task force? For example, imagine for the 46% of women aged 75+ who live alone, a personalized shower, reminding caregivers about behavioral change or the presence of bacteria on frequently handled devices. Hygiene – including oral health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2018

Given expanding life expectancies at age 65 – an average of 20 more years for men and more for women, the possibility of ‘aging in place’ in a private home may be growing. For those who want to monitor without a caregiver knowing, the camera could be mounted inside an alarm clock or a smoke detector. . Motion sensors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

You have 'conversed' with an older person who cannot hear well without hearing aids but owns an expensive pair which are highly adjustable. And so they go on – talking about themselves and assuming that’s fine at your end of the 'dialogue' They have families who become irritated with them; they spend a great deal of time alone.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

January 2024 brought announcements, updates and a plethora of new tech, some a dream in the eye of a startup, some in the market and some likely to improve lives, if not right away than soon. Here are the six blog posts from January 2024: Five policy changes that drive tech adoption. In tech, nothing is forever, though.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 8, 2022

CES 2022 – smaller in size, but big in tech futures. Many big companies decided at the last minute to stay home, eliminating, as one attendee noted, the lines at Starbucks. For older adults who may experience age-related physiological decline. PoseFit requires no wearable devices to operate. Not yet available. Learn more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. It is being updated regularly with more vendors.

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