Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Not just for Zoom, the company , but for many who wished to spend more time thinking and less time in airports. That meant it was still feasible to write monthly blog posts , publish client white papers and complete interview-intensive research reports. 2021 – the most read blog posts and their topics. The year 2021 was pivotal.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Here are the five blog posts from August 2022: Some might say that sensor technology for older adults is nothing new. Among the many types and features of sensors, here are five offerings, all info from the companies. You gotta love a company with a device so devoid of buttons – and so easily off the rails with an accidental touch.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

That change super-charged growth in telehealth-related companies that had been growing incrementally. The Forbes list included the $157 million poured into Care.com, unfortunately revealing a shocking lack of company oversight of care workers in 2019. What’s up with investing in home care and technology? Read more. .

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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. Best and worst companies – more ads -- and Medical Guardian. This was conceived by Andrea Cohen, Founder and Vice-Chair of HouseWorks , a large home care company started in Boston.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

This is not a fun company – read the reviews about working there. Yet the merger and acquisition of companies in other industries ultimately results in consolidation of data. Senior living companies (and families) augment limited staff with home care workers. Has anyone you know fallen and couldn’t get up?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 7, 2023

AARP’s AgeTech Collaborative launched in 2021 with a splash (and 50 startups) that has widened into an age wave, or a sort of Match.com for age-related companies to find others, including collaborators, sponsors, pilots, and more. The categories span Caregiving, FemTech, Health, Mobility, Savings & Planning, and Social Connections.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Companies and products worth noting in August. Approaching the 20 th year in this job category, so let’s reflect. Industry analysts wear many hats, but the primary role is to understand and communicate about a particular category market of companies/players. OPINION ON.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Here are four blog posts from November: Filling in the Tech Basics. Here are five companies drawn from the report and beyond – all material is from the company websites. category tags: baby boomers , digital health , telehealth , social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. Read more. . .

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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. Many big companies decided at the last minute to stay home, eliminating, as one attendee noted, the lines at Starbucks. Technologies for Older Adults from CES 2022.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Link-age announced today the creation of a new connected company, Link-age Launch. category tags: Family caregivers , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AI and machine learning , AgeTech Learn more at Nomo Smart Care. Link-age Launch – to connect silos across the care continuum. Learn more at www.linkagelaunch.com.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

“This marks the first time in CES history that a healthcare company will take the mainstage for a keynote at the show,” CTA’s press release stated. I covered this announcement in the Health Populi blog at the time, and today want to double-down on the significance of Ford’s leading presence at #CES2022.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

This is good – too many companies arrived and departed over the past decade because their senior-unique offerings never ramped up to low enough cost or profitable volumes. And investors have regularly run screaming from the ‘older adult’ category, preferring to view the whole bucket as ‘health’.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Connected heart health is a big segment for digital health at CES, including blood pressure, The CES 2024 Innovation Awards have anointed several heart-health innovators before the conference, seven of which are shown here in the diagram titled “Heart Health” curated from company press releases in advance of the meeting.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Here are four blog posts from September 2018: Investors continue to salivate over health tech. And even when investments or company roll-ups are specifically about the Medicare population – frothy writers cannot bring themselves to use clear wording. Apple Watch sends signals -- ageism in the device and the company.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here are the most read blog posts from 2019. In fact, MobileHelp, one of the first mobile PERS devices, acquired Halo Monitoring in 2012 – a good move for both, especially since by 2012, it was clear that fall detection by itself was not yet a market category hit. But I am sure the blaring will begin at the door.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Big tech companies seem to be suffering from the lemming effect – if one conducts a wave of layoffs, the pressure is intense to shrink the corporate staffs , address poor performance (of staff? category tags: IoT and home monitoring , SNF , seniors and aging policy , AI and machine learning.

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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. As one tech company noted, a one-year-pipeline compressed into a month of demand. And a plethora of companies raised their hands to offer their engagement technology for free. Let’s hope July is better!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The four blog posts from September : MIT Technology Review’s "Old Age is Over" is thought provoking. As your company gets ready to travel into battle or a booth this fall with the sound of lively pitches all around, it is time to for you to revisit this guidance. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

Here are four blog posts from June: Four technology categories to remotely monitor a caregiver. Hearing aids that they do regulate are now made by a small number of companies and are sold with audiologist services for $1000 up to $4000 per device – most people need two – they have a lifespan of up to 7 years. Recreational?

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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. Home care companies, senior living companies, skilled nursing facilities are all desperate for workers to address this increasingly overwhelming market. Consider these six blog posts from April and May 2022.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Here are the six blog posts to kick off the new year in January 2019: 2018-2019 look back and ahead at tech buzz, hope, and hype. Warning, more blog posts about CES next week while there]. Multiple blog posts and articles have surfaced since CES 2019 – including some offerings that should be recapped here.

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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

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 31, 2020

Here are six blog posts from a May unlike any previous: Could technology improve nursing homes? Companies continue to invent and introduce technology. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , seniors and aging policy , social isolation , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , healthcare.

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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? New offerings appearing at this event include (material is from the company sites ). It's crazy. Read more here.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 29, 2020

That was followed by a collection of companies offering free services for use of their technologies in the context of an increasingly isolated older adult population in senior living communities, nursing homes and at home. category tags: covid-19 , Seniors , Aging , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2022

And to stay up to date, here are the four blog posts from February, 2022: For older adults, television is a solid rock in a shifting tech landscape. Here are six TV-based offerings for older adults – in alphabetical order, all information is from the companies’ websites or press releases. Apple watch sells fear to the young.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Here are the October blog posts: AARP research highlights changes in technology adoption. What a difference more than a decade makes. Here are five new technologies that could provide benefit to older adults – content is from the companies. category tags: wearables, smart watch , hearing loss , smartphones, cell phones.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2018

The four blog posts from March are: 2018 Technology Market Overview updated and published. Lobbying for looser regulations has reached a new and quite convivial pitch – note the fun formation of a ‘supergroup’ of car company and tech lobbyists , supported by the mantra of reduced accidents and greater safety. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 9, 2018

At any rate, here are the four blog posts from the month of April. Tech companies and their partners continue to propel forward, with new ideas, innovations, products. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging technology. Why has this taken so long here? Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2018

All four of these posts are about our technology life, as shoppers in stores as recently as July 1 , our experience with user interfaces that are designed for none , catching up on the hype/hope/fading hope about self-driving cars , and finally, the only thing that can terrorize a company the size of Walmart – Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

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Xealth

MAY 1, 2023

SEATTLE—May 1, 2023— Xealth , the leader in enabling digital health at scale, announced today that it was named a 2023 Medigy HITMC Award Winner in the Blog of the Year category. The award for Blog of the Year is given to the best blog of the past year based on quality of content, frequency of updates, and overall presentation.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2023

Reviewing this new paper inspired me to explore the current state of the pet/health market and implications for their human families, my weaving of various stories explored in this Health Populi blog post. Pet treats, in particular, were a growing category in terms of product trips per buyer to the pet care aisle.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 20, 2020

Approaching the 20 th year in this job category, so let’s reflect. Industry analysts wear many hats, but the primary role is to understand and communicate about a particular category market of companies/players. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health. OPINION ON. OPINION OFF. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2018

Your new company gets ready to travel into battle for west coast networking , or you're back from San Francisco or Silicon Valley , consider this guidance, now that cards have been exchanged and follow-up emails sent. category tags: vehicle/transportation technology-services , voice/AI technology , senior living , robotics.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2023

You know Best Buy for its consumer electronic retail chops, starting up Best Buy Health several years ago as a key pillar for the company’s strategic long term plans. Keep staying tuned to the Health Populi blog as I continue to grow and learn more in the field on our home as site of care. There’s more on Sequence here.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Stay tuned for blog posts in January. Along with CareAngel and Papa , the company now focuses, no surprise, on healthcare. While health care tech is necessary as the pandemic proved, and reimbursement certainly keeps the company going, it is not sufficient. The Future of Sensors and Older Adults should have arrived by now.

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