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Health Care Costs for a Couple in Retirement in the U.S. Reach $300,000

Health Populi

To pay for health care expenses, the average nest-egg required for a couple retiring in the U.S. in 2021 will be $300,000 according to the 20th annual Fidelity Investments Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The coronavirus pandemic had at least two major toxic side effects for patients in the U.S.:

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A decade later -- Next Generation Response Systems have arrived

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The age of purchasers was high – averaging 82, mostly women, and the duration of ownership was short – either from user disinterest (“Why do I have to wear this thing?”) These future systems would offer vital signs monitoring and be integrated with health applications – and even health systems. Are we there yet?

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Did you miss one? Check out September’s Aging & Health Tech blog posts

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Now add in the shortage of workers in home care , health care , and nursing homes. And their role tracking trips to the bathroom has been useful in detecting UTIs , identifying wanderers , alerting about sleep issues , noting whether a person has eaten. Women will outlive men by a few years – living on average into their late 80s.

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My ABCovid-19 Journal, Day 2 – Letters “F” through “J”

Health Populi

If you hadn’t tuned into the Health Populi blog yesterday, 10th August 2020 , you missed the first five letters of my Age of Corona alphabet, curated in my art journal created in the early weeks of the pandemic. health citizens into hygiene shoppers. “H” is for hand-washing. “I” is for Italy.

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Nursing home transparency needs more than Covid-19 case-counting

Aging in Place Technology Watch

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.' Combine staffing information, offer aggregate information about health status of residents, and create predictive analytics about where future issues may emerge. So many of the 1.5

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Poor information hobbles market perceptions about older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

And 24% of men, 14% of women aged 70-74 are still working. AARP still hasn’t retired, The organization apparently has no intention to give up on tracking the ‘single segment’ behavior of 108.7 Did you know that 22 million older adults are aged 75+, three million more women than men? And likely more tech ownership.

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Nursing home Covid-19 deaths – the NY Times data shouts – but what is it saying?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The NY Times decided that tracking down and mapping the list of nursing home deaths nationwide required more than 30 contributing writers for the story. Women make up the majority of nursing home residents. Half of these women have no close relatives. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF).

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