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Focus on Technology for Older Adults Sharpens in 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

2019 Technology Market Overview is online this week. Here are four updated premises from the 2019 Market Overview of Technology for Older Adults : 1. Caregiving demands of an aging population drive policy change in 2019. Tech adoption among the oldest has not kept pace with technology improvements.

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

Continue Education Journal

Telehealth in 2019. In fact, a 2017 survey found that two-thirds of healthcare consumers would prefer seeing a doctor via virtual visits. The telehealth approach is growing in popularity among patients and providers, and will only continue to do so throughout 2019. The post The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth.

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Six Health and Aging Technology Blog Posts from January, 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

January 2019 was a l-o-o-o-n-g month. Most because it was difficult to absorb and rationalize so much tech news, hype, booths and convention center halls at the Digital Health Summit at CES 2019 – where a step counter status update may have been the most satisfying experience of all at the end of the day. A few topics that stood out.

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mHealth guide to Mobile World Congress 2019

mHealth Insight

Last year mHealth fell off the radar for the GSMA and there was no mHealth content at the world’s biggest mobile industry conference and exhibition (held annually in Barcelona – [link]. ACCIO-IWC Innovation World Cup Pitch & Award Ceremony 2019 BARCELONA. Date & Time. Monday, 25 Feb. 10:00 – 10:30.

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Four tech and aging blog posts from September 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AARP, which has been researching the subject since 2010, released new survey results in 2018 confirming the same percentage – 35 percent of adults age 45+ are lonely – but with a growing number of older adults in the population, this represents an additional five million adults based on census data and asks them to assess their health.

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Eight Intriguing Offerings from the 2019 Voice Summit

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Surveys by Voice is the only survey platform designed specifically for VOICE. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. Learn more at Speak2Software. SurveyLine. Learn a bit more at SmartBeings.Ai or Silicon Valley Review.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling? Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.