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For older adults, the future of wearables is predictive

Aging in Place Technology Watch

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. Wearables are increasingly providing health status signals, some useful, some not.

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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

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+. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise.

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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In this first week of January 2022 with CES kicking off its show of digital health innovations, along with other consumer categories of electronics at home and in connected cars ( which I covered here in Health Populi back in 2007 before I began to attend CES!),

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Five tech and aging blog posts from October 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Between trade events, including the Connected Health Conference in Boston, LeadingAge in San Diego, HLTH in Las Vegas, the Aging 2.0 The survey was fielded in December of 2007 with a population of 907 adults aged 65-98 (the mean age was 74). October was a long and extravagant month for the tech market.

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

are concepting, which I wrote about back in 2007 focusing on Toyota’s wellness car concept. With every one of these digital health encounters, from Alexa to Zipongo, a bit of data is created. Promising, promising. It’s personal stuff, and it’s a tiny little bit about “you.” mobile consumers.

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Everybody is Stressed in America, and It’s Not Good for Our Health: the 2023 Update from the American Psychological Association

Health Populi

is “a nation recovering from collective trauma,” the according to the latest survey on Stress in America 2023 from the American Psychological Association (APA). This is the ultimate driver of health and well-being — the real connected health. [I’ve adults 18 and over in August 2023.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

According to the hospital’s most recent employee engagement survey, the hospital’s overall employee engagement score was 89 percent and its employee retention rate is 92.6 Baylor Scott & White Health (Dallas). The health system offers employees pet insurance, counseling, tutoring and child care.