Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Technology was essential for many adults stuck at home during the pandemic, providing some social connection, access to online shopping, home delivery services, and requests for transportation. This is the last blog post in the series about The Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults 2020 , a research report to be released soon].

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 13, 2020

See Security Topics , Consent/Privacy , and FHIR for index to these articles.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 23, 2021

See Security Topics , Consent/Privacy , and FHIR for index to these articles.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

Wearables are increasingly providing health status signals, some useful, some not. This is the next blog post in a series prior to publication of the report, the Future of Wearables and Older Adults 2021]. category tags: wearables, smart watch , Technology - AARP. More when there’s more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 29, 2022

And certainly there are multiple blogs out there that condemn Google as a search tool, suggesting one of many other search tools out there, including Microsoft Bing , Yahoo and (mostly) non-tracking DuckDuckGo. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2023

And from the other May blog posts: Wondering if there's any news about AI? Stanford provides the State of AI in 14 Charts. category tags: AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , Mobile PERS Just from yesterday, May 3, 2023 – that list goes on and on. The New York Times explains for the uninitiated.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Big tech revealed growing interest in older adults and investors saw the potential in firms like Papa, which provides (reimbursed) varied assistance to older adults. That meant it was still feasible to write monthly blog posts , publish client white papers and complete interview-intensive research reports. The year 2021 was pivotal.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

In today’s Health Populi blog I bring you letters “K” through “O,” continuing through the rest of the alphabet tomorrow and Friday while I’m on a lake-side holiday that’s good for mind, body, and spirit. .” On the upper left is the State of Liberty photographed with the U.S.

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TheraNest

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Optimize your meta tags. A good portion of SEO strategy is on the backend of things and meta tags are an important piece. Meta tags are simply short bits of HTML code located in the header of a web page. When a page shows up in a search result, the page’s title tag and meta description are usually shown. No worries.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

Here are six blog posts from the month of June: PERS Insider helpfully listed the most common PERS Google searches. Yet the home care industry can attract those who care about older adults and provide them with improved working conditions that underpin their tasks with technology that improves efficiency and care effectiveness.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Providers now envision a care continuum that may extend into ‘hospital at home’ offerings. Even as older people move back into the waiting rooms for in-person visits, the telehealth offering in its multiple formats is now an option in provider care. Telehealth becomes an expectation – no longer just a future.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Next week's blog post will detail 10 products/services from CES 2022 that will likely make a difference for older adults. Family caregivers cannot provide enough care for a growing population of the 80+. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology. You may remember.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2023

And it notes the ability to ‘provide companionship, offer mental stimulation, share stories and experiences, and suggest hobbies and activities.’ Here are four other blog posts from March to think about: Our passwords, ourselves - the nightmare of authentication. And ChatGPT can be accessed through any mobile browser.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

Here are four blog posts from February 2021: Aging in place – it’s emerged (again) during these Covid-19 times. Home care of various types now augments and even enhances services that not long ago may have been provided by senior housing. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , healthcare , digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

These include senior housing, skilled nursing facilities, home care, home healthcare, or healthcare providers. NOTE: This is a first in a series of blog posts about the Future of Remote Care Technology After Covid-19 – a proposed Q4 Research Report -- thoughts welcome].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 20, 2021

But some, as with yesterday’s CES 2021 blog post , are quite straightforward and obviously useful. The San Francisco-based company wanted to provide a solution to help people suffering from both farsightedness and moderate nearsightedness. The VOY Tunable Eyeglasses provide the solution with just one pair of glasses.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Family caregivers cannot provide enough care for a growing population of the 80+. A 2015 blog post examined census data by county ( Stranded by Geography ) and identified retirement destinations that had the worst ratios at that time. category tags: Home Care , Family caregivers. You may remember. Then things got worse.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The 2018 Washington Innovation in Longevity Summit , led by Mary Furlong , provided that opportunity. We make life better for seniors by providing them with what they want: freedom, independence, dignity, and choice. category tags: aging in place , senior living , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. That needs to change."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Here are the four blog posts from July 2022. There is quite a bit of chatter in long-term care publications about the need for more technology use, and providers are asked to offer best examples of tech use to win an award (separate categories for senior living, home care, and skilled nursing) at the upcoming Leading Age event in October.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Scanning through the collection of blog posts from April and May, the obvious has finally occurred. Consider these six blog posts from April and May 2022. Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed.

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2022

In our grant funding blog series, we’ve provided tips and insights to help you and your organization through the grant process. In our last two posts, we talked about how to identify your telehealth grant funding needs and provided an overview of the four main types of grant funding sources.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

Here are a selected few areas that are not generally discussed in forums about tech for aging – future blog posts will explore this material further -- here's hoping that prospective inventors, providers of existing solutions for older adults will read the whole report to find more suggestions. . Hygiene – including oral health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Health2Sync (‘round the clock diabetes care’ provides a logging tool as well as encouragement. Information sites: Healthline also offers a list of the best diabetes blogs (curated) of 2019 and another blogsite that aggregates a longer list. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A short month saw plenty of food – and provided food for thought. Warning -- this is not a blog post about what to give to seniors. category tags: cell phones, smartphones , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , baby boomers. Many (54 million!) traveled during the US Thanksgiving holiday, according to AAA.

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Iris Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

While experts continue to seek effective treatment and vaccine options for the ongoing COVID-19 virus, mental health care providers face another side of this worldwide phenomenon: the unforeseen and widespread impacts on individual and community mental health and well-being. Use text messaging-based marketing. Send out an email newsletter.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Here are four blog posts from November: Filling in the Tech Basics. Technology was essential for many adults stuck at home during the pandemic, providing some social connection, access to online shopping, home delivery services, and requests for transportation. Read more. . .

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the earliest and most important books on the benefits of “doing less” in healthcare was Shannon Brownlee’s Overtreated , which I’ve covered here in Health Populi since the start of the blog in 2007.

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In Hand Health

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

You don’t want to waste any of that precious time scanning copies, printing exercises, or playing phone tag trying to communicate with your patients. Provide cash-based services with built-in billing and customized offerings. No more phone tag either. You want to grow your business as efficiently as possible. Don’t stress.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Here are four Sept blog posts on these and related topics: In a time of short-staffing, sensors are increasingly useful in the care of older adults. Yet for them, digital literacy is even more critical – when you consider how much useful information is available from or about our healthcare providers and related services.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Next week's blog post will detail 10 products/services from CES 2022 that will likely make a difference for older adults. For safety-oriented apps and sites that include the role of the senior, it’s critical to verify identify among provider and user roles. The right customer or referral – families and service providers partners.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2020

Here are the five blog posts from June 2020: Tech adoption older adults matter more now than ever. So we know that ‘remote care’ and ‘caring’ in its various forms, including telehealth , seem to be heating up as a priority , whether for senior living organizations , families, healthcare provider organizations.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Also in September, Medicare changes were introduced encouraging technology use by health providers, particularly telehealth services -- perhaps boosting the use of telehealth technology (for example remote visitations) which has seen a rise of consumer interest in recent polling , though not well-adopted yet by the majority of physicians.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

So many weeks, so many blog posts to, uh, post. Last January 2021, WaterStreet, a healthcare investment company, coughed up a mind-bending $100 million to Medical Guardian, a long time (2006) privately-held PERS provider, to ‘fund expansion.’ Isn’t March a l-o-n-g month? Otherwise the market has moved on – to remote monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Here are the most-read blog posts from 2018 – take another look if you missed them. The report provides predictions about key technology trends for 2018 and beyond. The 100-million-strong 50+ market is increasingly aware of technology alternatives and providers know it. What technology matters for older adults? Feb, 2018).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2019

Multiple blog posts and articles have surfaced since CES 2019 – including some offerings that should be recapped here. She’s a state of the art, 3D animated caregiver designed to engage aging and chronically ill clients throughout the home to supplement their care and to provide various health and safety features. Alma Home. "By

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

But there were issues, disruptions and sizable opportunities worth noting in August, the biggest one was Best Buy's purchase of GreatCall, just six weeks after Amazon acquired PillPack , the latest big company acquisition -- part of a to-be-continued series important to families and providers of care to seniors. Read more here.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Meanwhile, seniors will face a worsening shortage of workers to provide care in the home -- even as the majority of seniors will want to stay there versus move to senior living (which will face the same labor shortage). Maybe 2019 will begin a decade of technology streamlining, integration, and simplification. But don't bet on it. .

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