Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2023

Here are four other blog posts from March to think about: Our passwords, ourselves - the nightmare of authentication. Okay, sort of safe, for already having my identity stolen due to a log-in at a health center during the Anthem breach in 2015. And ChatGPT can be accessed through any mobile browser. Feeling safe and protected.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Within five years, predictive, proactive and adaptive smart home solutions that support health and wellbeing, comfort and safety, and engagement and entertainment will emerge to meet the needs of older adults, including subscription-based services that are integrated with wearables. 2021 – the most read blog posts and their topics.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

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. When announced, the news was a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Now add in the shortage of workers in home care , health care , and nursing homes. 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. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , robotics , Home Care , home health care , senior living , SNF.

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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. Except for the deep-pocketed Medical Guardian which bought ads everywhere , these were all bracelets to help emergency workers determine a health issue. The result was bleak and informative.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Isolation has produced an increase in mental health issues, loneliness and depression – and that would be for those who have a good grasp of what is going on – for those in long-term care , for those with dementia, unable to be hugged by family, it is far worse. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 7, 2023

The categories span Caregiving, FemTech, Health, Mobility, Savings & Planning, and Social Connections. Some changes occurred, such as care delivery in the home, with the growing adoption of health-related portals. Home health care providers currently report turning away over 25% of referred patients due to staff shortages.”

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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. Home Health Care Services experienced an even larger increase – 50.5% -- during the same period." Also in August, a new report on the status of US broadband access was released, highlighting major expansion underway.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

announces the first-of-its-kind smart technology for the millions of people providing personal care to family members, especially those facing health challenges. category tags: Family caregivers , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AI and machine learning , AgeTech Nomo International, Inc.

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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. A 2015 blog post examined census data by county ( Stranded by Geography ) and identified retirement destinations that had the worst ratios at that time.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Here are four blog posts from November: Filling in the Tech Basics. Worse, for many older adults, isolation is a worsening health issue that we will hear more about as shutdowns continue and shut-in becomes the virtual norm. In fact, older adults have often been ignored by marketers even as boomers have all the money. Read more. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Consider Optum’s acquisition of Amedisys home health business. And depending on health, wealth or financial planning, many older adults will one day move to nursing homes, where the worker pool matches that in the other care services. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , fall prevention, fall detection , Mobile PERS

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 3, 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: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

As with other market segments, the hearing health market saw the opportunity to promote their teleaudiology (or tele-audiology ) services for those who already own telehealth-capable hearing aids that may need adjustment. In early 2020, focus sharpened on market categories of aging and caregiving.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

And investors have regularly run screaming from the ‘older adult’ category, preferring to view the whole bucket as ‘health’. Here are the most-read blog posts from 2018 – take another look if you missed them. category tags: hearing loss , Voice First/AI technology , wearables, smart watch , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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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. billion invested in Digital Health ( which means whatever you want it to mean.) Yes that is vertical integration in the continuum of care – specifically for health services to elderly Medicare recipients. Gee, what do they do?

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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

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

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

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. Warning, more blog posts about CES next week while there].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Meanwhile, The older adult technology market is still comprised of four main categories , into which the new entrants and inventions, including wearables, sensors, AI, and predictive analytics, will fit. The research report, Voice, Health, and Wellbeing 2020 has now launched and interviews are underway. What to make of all this?

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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. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , computers, internet and social networking , smartphones, cell phones. Let’s hope July is better!

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Not known for its salubrious qualities, Las Vegas will nonetheless be a locus for health, medical care, and well-being inspiration next week when the Consumer Technology Association convenes the annual CES featuring innovations in consumer technology.

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

Here are four blog posts from June: Four technology categories to remotely monitor a caregiver. Note that hearing loss has been linked to dementia and to social isolation – and that in turn has been connected to poorer health outcomes. category tags: hearing loss , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Seniors , dementia care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Here are the blog posts from the month: Best Buy Acquires GreatCall – What’s it Mean for Best Buy? category tags: cell phones, smartphones , Family caregivers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Read more here. Robocalls and scams -- a phone-based war against us all. Many years ago, when the phone rang, we eagerly picked it up.

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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? category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , seniors and aging policy , social isolation , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , healthcare. Nursing homes – consternation, condemnation are words that rule the day.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Here are six blog posts from October 2018: What is Caregiving Technology, Anyway? Soon you will launch a boomer/senior, home health tech product or service, or maybe a caregiver advisory service. Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018. Voice First and Health – What’s Notable and Not So Much?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Between trade events, including the Connected Health Conference in Boston, LeadingAge in San Diego, HLTH in Las Vegas, the Aging 2.0 Between trade events, including the Connected Health Conference in Boston, LeadingAge in San Diego, HLTH in Las Vegas, the Aging 2.0 October was a long and extravagant month for the tech market.

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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. 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. category tags: wearables, smart watch , AgeTech , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Television/Smart TV.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2023

you can search through the Health Populi blog for my various takes — starting with the milestone research of Deaton and Case discussed in this post. Death rates for young Americans increased across all five categories. Last week, I received a mailing from my local hospital system, Main Line Health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Three in four people in America grade health care costs a #fail, at grade “D” or lower. First, to the Gallup/West Health findings: here’s the top-line report card in the first chart from the study, which was conducted among over 5,500 U.S. healthcare negatively. adults in late June 2022. avoid care due to cost.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2023

As our homes and health care services continue to converge, we can see signposts of direct-to-consumer strategies from the pillbox (where DTC is a mature thing) to clinical care in peoples’ hands (and on their preferred technology platforms). Well done, Teva.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2018

Here are four blog posts to take a look at in this sleepy week: Time to Worry about Your Data. in health care. category tags: vehicle/transportation technology-services , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. The irony, the irony – everyone saw Europe’s data privacy initiatives. Why has this taken so long here? What’s next?

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MAY 25, 2023

Our pets can be personal and family drivers of health and health care cost savings, according to a new study from according to a new report from researchers at George Mason University published in their paper, Health Care Cost Savings of Pet Ownership. bn savings attributable to obesity reduction, s1.8

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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. Traffic deaths are a 'public health crisis that cannot be tolerated.' category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , aging in place. Technology and tech-enabled services matter for older adults. Read more. .

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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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