Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

November revealed a growing sense of urgency about older adults. Public-private partnerships are forming to bring devices and products to older adults, now isolated for as much as 9 months. And much more will be different for an older population – the real seniors, aged 75+, perhaps previously unnoticed by media.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

November was an interesting month in the technology industry. Perhaps this is a good long-term sign that there will be more tech minds outside these big firms to allocate to innovation for an aging population that needs new ideas from the best and the brightest. The four posts for November 2022: AI matters for older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2021

Here’s a thought about this market, where the beneficiary of an innovation is an older adult, and the innovation could improve quality of life. You might remember AbleData – a product registry of 40,000 mobility aids and assistive technologies. The Future of Voice First and Older Adults was published in February of 2018.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Fewer software platforms, but new and more interesting offerings. Two major changes happened in 2018 that are having and will continue to help older adults. And investors have regularly run screaming from the ‘older adult’ category, preferring to view the whole bucket as ‘health’. Feb, 2018). (Feb,

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

And in other news, CMS really wants older adults with dementia to remain in their homes. The new GUIDE program will support caregivers and ‘enable people living with dementia to remain in their homes and communities.’ Five tech offerings serving the family, senior living and home care continuum.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Is 2022 the tipping point for technology and older adults? 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. Tech adoption among older adults is clearly increasing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2022

Louis on April 1 – and next week’s VIVE 2022 , the new health IT event in Miami. Upcoming, Argentum’s Senior Living Executive Conference in Minneapolis in March, then the American Society on Aging’s annual conference, On Aging , in New Orleans in April. Why it could open a whole new market of watch buyers and upgraders.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

We have been incredulous, watching older adults die alone in a nursing home , and then dying in many nursing homes. We wait and watch to see what will be different, especially for older adults and their access to technology, moving forward. 65 is the new 85 – Covid-19 cultivates elements of ageism.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2022

These will be featured in blogs over the next week or two. But before we dive into the startups next week, here is one more look at 2022 – what was notable that could/might/will serve and help older adults? 3G-5G cutover – an opportunity for a new (more useful?) 4G cell phone. This was actually a foot-dragging travesty.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Show organizers want you to find new companies – and some may be the most innovative ones you encounter in the entire event. Here are six blog posts from October 2018: What is Caregiving Technology, Anyway? Search for the term 'caregiving technology.' Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here are the most read blog posts from 2019. Happy New Year – and onward to 2020, the publication of the now-completed Voice, Health and Wellbeing 2020 on Monday, January 6 th , and so many more (and counted) CES steps -- more wearables, virtual experiences, smart and not-so-smart speakers. Real seniors lack essential technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It was month to think further about concepts introduced in October about caregiving technology – why is it so unclear what it is, who makes it, what is the form factor for presenting it and how should people be using it? Perhaps this is a major factor in why older adults defer making moves to senior living? Many (54 million!)

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 8, 2018

Voice First technology – triaging the healthcare opportunity. This week’s Voice of Healthcare Summit in Boston offered up some intriguing attempts to create new Voice First interfaces that inform patients, streamline work, and demonstrate potential (like Answers by Cigna ) in versions 2, 3 and beyond. Read more here.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Revolutionize Conference in Boston which was highlighted by the reveal of Venture Capital investor Dominic Endicott's $2 Trillion Age-Tech market size, making the Consumer Technology Association's $29 Billion look cautious. Consider a long-ago AARP document that examined technology use of the 65+ population.

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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. Here are four blog posts from June: Four technology categories to remotely monitor a caregiver. Senior Living organizations are eager to try new technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 9, 2018

With them, much news about technology, the good, the bad, the ugly, and the smug – not sure that so much time to look at and listen to Mark Zuckerberg’s confession felt like a positive. At any rate, here are the four blog posts from the month of April. Moving beyond the pilot -- technology, services, organizations.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This is the tenth anniversary of the launch of this Market Overview of technology for ‘Aging in Place’, to be published in March 2019 – the category of offerings that help enable older adults to remain longer in their home of choice. While there are still specialty tech offerings for older adults (i.e.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2019

What does it mean when offerings and consumers aren’t aligned? For older consumers and their families, the technology market and senior housing industry are two cases in point. So in that vein, here are five blog posts, mostly rants, from May, 2019: Older adult finances and future senior housing options are out of sync.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I may be getting smarter, or more reckless, or perhaps a man just loses all sense of ego when his five- and three-year-olds beat him into submission. Hell, HL7v2 is older than me and has several successors trying to make it obsolete, but guess what, baby? We’re only 30, flirty, and thriving *hair toss.* I love this one.

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Iris Telehealth

MAY 2, 2022

I primarily work with children and families with mental illness and occasionally some adults. For one, I love finding new ways to engage with the kids. It’s fun to find new ways to explore engaging with the children, especially the younger ones. I can take five minutes and breathe.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

trillion selfies, posted about 6,000 tweets every second, and watched almost five billion YouTube videos. Across the medical landscape, technology like video chat and real-time virtual visits are taking hold at a furious pace. So, how can PT clinics take advantage of today’s technology to be most competitive moving forward right now ?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

At the end of each year since I launched the Health Populi blog, I have put my best forecasting hat on to focus on the next year in health and health care. In what the Federal Reserve Bank of New York sees as an “only-in-the-U.S.” adults, CivicScience found. Another positive aspect of the U.S.

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