Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Honor bought Home Instead – which should result in more technology used in the home care industry -- and soon, hopefully, for an industry suffering from a severe labor shortage. Remote configuration and updates will be standard, and health insurers will be interested in smart home technology as a deterrent to hospitalization.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Technology innovation announcements whiz by at what seems to be a breakneck pace. Or in-Car voice technology like Garmin Speak-Plus for directions without a screen (that’s a plus). What is the status and future of remote care technologies? What’s up with investing in home care and technology? Here are five examples.

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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. Most would agree: AI is the hottest segment in the technology market today. And ChatGPT can be accessed through any mobile browser. Read more. AI use in care delivery and marketing is not new - it just seems that way.

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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. Andrea noted, "When employed to its fullest, remote care technology improves every aspect of how care is delivered in the home. By 2018, more technology (and associated improvements) could be found in the Cloud.

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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. It is extracted from the Technology for Aging 2022 Market Overview, to be posted following CES, and including 30 offerings that were not in the 2021 version. Technologies for Older Adults from CES 2022.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If there was a time to look at the role of monitoring and engagement technologies that augment and assist the worker in the care of older adults – it would seem that this is the time. 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.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Each of these will no doubt feature startups of services and technologies, many incorporating AI ) in multiple areas. announces the first-of-its-kind smart technology for the millions of people providing personal care to family members, especially those facing health challenges. Events are ahead like Aging 2.0 Nomo International, Inc.

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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. Five technologies for older adults – November 2020. Read more. .

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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. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , computers, broadband, and social networking , fall prevention, fall detection. What’s the big deal? Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

November was an interesting month in the technology industry. Over the last few years, a growing number of applications of AI and machine learning have entered the market of caregiving technology for older adults. The cost of long-term care. Ask yourself, what care delivery has seen an uptake in technology adoption?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

First there is the significant uptake of voice-enabled technology, was forecast to be transformative , and so it was, in senior living, in the homes and families of seniors, and as an interface in newer cars to make giving and hearing directions easier. Here are the most-read blog posts from 2018 – take another look if you missed them.

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JULY 1, 2020

Here are the five blog posts from June 2020: Tech adoption older adults matter more now than ever. Here is where we were on technology adoption at the start of the pandemic, and the wave of telehealth interest heated up. And a plethora of companies raised their hands to offer their engagement technology for free. Read more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Lack of standardization of technology platforms – or lack of care platforms altogether – hobbled the care industries -- senior living, home care, home healthcare. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , fall prevention, fall detection , Mobile PERS No surprise: Data underpins care quality in senior living and home care.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2020

AARP published a new report that showed growing interest in technology among those aged 70+. The National Alliance for Caregiving surveyed caregivers about their use of technology (surprisingly low), and Samsung , Best Buy and Amazon now group offerings that could be helpful for older adults and those who care for them.

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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]. Ten Technology Offerings from CES 2019 – Beyond Gadgets. Ten More Technology Offerings from CES 2019 -- Beyond Gadgets. Read more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 7, 2023

This chart came from a report, The Future of Home Care Technology 2012 that was sponsored by Microsoft, Verizon and LivHome, in 2012. And represents a vision for home care and what technology should support. Several times in the past decade, interviews were conducted with experts that lead to some reports about the home care industry.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Technologies from the Argentum 2020 Virtual Conference and Suppliers. It’s been an interesting technology week. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Mobile PERS. New announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest.

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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. Blog posts received in email can also be read in their original form on the website: Aging in Place Technology Watch.]. category tags: healthcare , Seniors , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. So the first half of 2018 saw $3.4

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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? New Technology offerings for caregivers and families. Just because a technology can be built, is it acceptable? category tags: cell phones, smartphones , Family caregivers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Read more here.

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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? More from the month: Living to 100 – will technology matter – and for whom? Many (54 million!) Just a thought.)

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MAY 31, 2020

We wait and watch to see what will be different, especially for older adults and their access to technology, moving forward. Here are six blog posts from a May unlike any previous: Could technology improve nursing homes? Companies continue to invent and introduce technology.

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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. Baby boomers are aging and want to stay in their homes as long as feasible.

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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. Voice-AI technology in 2022 – living up to hope and hype? category tags: wearables, smart watch , AgeTech , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Television/Smart TV. Raise the blinds!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This includes writing market research documents (blogs, white papers, reports) about the categories that can help position them in comparison to each other and new entrants. Lots of talk about remote care technologies. But will the 2020 crisis convert to actual technology change?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here are the most read blog posts from 2019. Ten Technology Offerings from CES 2019 – Beyond Gadgets. After taking a year or two off, returning to CES is a chore and a revelation – it clearly is the major event for new technology announcements. Real seniors lack essential technology. See you there! Don't laugh, though.

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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. These do not include, unfortunately, providing usable technologies to connect isolated seniors with families.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Now we must contemplate the fall season of tradeshows and events, rev up anticipation for impending technology announcements, consider that technology anti-trust investigations are launching in multiple states. Here are the blog posts from August for consideration: Wearables for Health and Wellbeing. What to make of all this?

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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. Senior Living organizations are eager to try new technology. So where does Voice First technology fit into the senior living equation? category tags: hearing loss , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Seniors , dementia care.

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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. Read more. . .

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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? Search for the term 'caregiving technology.' There’s the 2017 AARP report that surveys caregivers about what they want from technology -- they are interested in but not currently using. A term that means what you want it to mean.

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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. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2018

The purpose was unchanged – and the limited representation of tech in the exhibit hall may hint at the peripheral role that technology use continues to play in these senior-focused jobs, despite the tech disruption this past year of voice first technology , or the availability of cheaper/smaller wearables and offerings for the smart home.

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Those reading this blog can look around their own home – noting a Wi-Fi network, smartphone, smart speaker, or in some homes a smart doorbell, thermostat, refrigerator – or a too-smart car. Surveyed older adults struggle with technology they own in 2023. What is being done to provide more/better/any tech support for older adults?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Technologies from the Argentum 2020 Virtual Conference and Suppliers. It’s been an interesting technology week. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Mobile PERS. New announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2018

For a Chief Medical Officer, what role does technology play? Nazir notes, it’s not just doctors who can be frustrated by over-emphasis on technology. category tags: vehicle/transportation technology-services , voice/AI technology , senior living , robotics. Empathy is what you do, not what you feel." Really?

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