Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly saw a 34.4% category tags: AgeTech , senior living. The Census knows the growth and potential explosion of care needs and older adults. Consider their newly published document explaining the industries to those who may still not see what’s happening.”

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Nursing 144

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 16, 2022

The chances that both categories will draw from the same labor pool seem unlikely. category tags: Home Care , home health care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , tech-enabled home care. y do an interesting analysis built around the premise that some people who could work do not because of care responsibilities.

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Nursing 139

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 16, 2021

Hearing aids and music -- why is this so difficult to solve for the elderly? The advice is to bring the article to the audiologist (whose business is all about service ) l-- is that likely for the elderly? Audiologists, music and the elderly. category tags: hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology , Seniors.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Serving the safety net and rebuilding public health, recognizing that our mental health is integral to our overall health and wellbeing. Addressing social determinants, where social isolation and loneliness are one powerful SDoH across ages and especially for elders (see #6).

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Mental health Digital Health Public Health Health Data 323

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2021

Karie provides an automated solution to the common, costly, but completely preventable problem of poor medication adherence for elderly patients living alone. Our elderly devices come equipped with heart rate monitors, fall detection and GPS - taking care of our elders has never been easier." Learn more at AceAge. Dance4Healing. "

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Digital Health 138

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

CareYaya. " CareYaya is the fastest-growing health-tech startup in America, solving home care for those with elderly loved ones and medically vulnerable children. category tags: caregivers , Home Care , senior living , AgeTech Butlr also announced partnerships with leading solution providers that are deploying the technology."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

Some examples are: Remote home monitoring: Elder care robots that can assist nurses and caregivers to focus on the elderly person’s needs 1. category tags: Generative AI , fall prevention, fall detection Smart implants: Devices that can monitor vital signs, blood glucose levels, or medication intake 1.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

What will be the year that an uptick in usage for smart speakers and voice assistants turn them into commodity concepts, embedded in devices, expected in homes at miniscule price points, but not actually a standalone category at all? 2020 is that year – when a category is subsumed into technology ecosystems.

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Remote care Telehealth Patient Experience Nursing 120

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 26, 2020

A non-wearable, elderly-care, home monitoring system that automatically alerts safety and emergency situations. In addition to unprecedented fall detection capabilities, the ECHO system detects and alerts on other emergency situations, such as sleep apnea, hyperventilation, abnormal situations, and change from elderly daily routines.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones. You search the tech forums, find the example of what happened and voilà, there’s the fix. Enter the tech concierge. Some senior living companies during Covid saw the need to help residents with their devices. Thoughts welcome.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Given the barriers of social distancing, the path of least resistance seems to have been to mandate isolation of elderly, considered, sometimes inappropriately , vulnerable, to be treated differently. category tags: social isolation , computers, internet and social networking.

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Mental health 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2022

For example, despite the enormous cost of medication non-adherence among elderly patients , do designers understand older adult preferences when designing a medication adherence app ? category tags: assistive technologies , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , baby boomers , Television/Smart TV.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And no matter how tough the Walmart job is, when you compare it to toileting, lifting, feeding, and moving the frail elderly, it takes a very special person to do that work. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care. Are investors mulling that realistically when they pour in big sums? And if so, when?

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Nursing Medicare 133

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

And miniaturization and integration mean that nearly invisible wearable technology, such as diabetes patches or smartwatch sensors, will be unobtrusive enough to be tolerated about traditionally reluctant elderly users." category tags: wearables, smart watch , Technology - AARP. More when there’s more.

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Connected Health Health Data 144

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 29, 2022

category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , senior living. Years ago, it might have been hard to find answers to questions, especially in the midst of an emergency – when a parent is being discharged from a hospital and the home is unsafe.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Yes that is vertical integration in the continuum of care – specifically for health services to elderly Medicare recipients. And the $146 million that went into PointClickCare – that is software for long-term care ( LTPAC ), another euphemism for what it really is – care of the elderly , generally in nursing homes.

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Medicare Connected Health Nursing Digital Health 108

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

Note that PACE programs for frail and low-income elderly are now directed by CMS to use remote technology for "activities that would normally occur on an in-person basis," such as scheduled and unscheduled participant assessments, care planning, monitoring, communication, and other activities.”.

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Nursing Telehealth Medicare Digital Health 95

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

LeadingAge) "EchoCare, founded in 2015, has developed the Elderly Care Home Observer (ECHO) system, a unique sensing system for the care of the elderly during their stay at home. category tags: healthcare , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , home health care. Learn more at Curadite. Learn more at OrbitaAssist. .

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Nursing 124

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2020

That was then… In early 2020, focus sharpens on market categories of aging and caregiving. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home , dementia care, cognitive decline. AARP published a new report that showed growing interest in technology among those aged 70+.

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Nursing Telehealth 163

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2019

If you were lucky to read Don Norman’s rant in Fast Company , you must agree with his view of design and its mismatch with the needs of the elderly. You would agree with Don that today’s designs fail all people, not just the elderly. I chose the apps, the screen layouts, the font size, and examined each of 14 categories of settings.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 19, 2018

Reviewing the past 10 years of blog posts ( from 2008 until 2018 ), in the beginning, consider the categories and innovations. And the sub-topics of categories -- Communication & Engagement, Safety & Security, Health & Wellness, Learning & Contribution – remain as the collective elements of a framework that can make it so. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

And look at this depressing list for setting up an iPad before giving it to an elderly relative. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants. Simplicity – once the firm’s motto – got lost in translation. We want to turn on a ‘voice first’ device and have it welcome – not abuse us.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Furthermore, shrinking reimbursement rates for rehabilitation/nursing home stays and reduction in Medicaid coverage boosts risks to those frail elderly who are most likely to be readmitted to the hospital post-discharge and who may be least equipped to take care of themselves. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care.

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Nursing 128

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living , Home Care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Perhaps the assisted living staff or the senior’s family could no longer handle the older adult who may have significant care requirements. No matter where older adults live, technology capability matters.

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 150

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 30, 2018

The bad news -- another in a long line of ‘robots and chatbots look after the elderly,’ with promotions of those oft-promoted Care.coach and ElliQ , adding Catalia Health’s cute Mabu. As for the categories, the tech in this article may be useful for the alert elderly and/or their in-home caregivers.

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Nursing 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

In early 2020, focus sharpened on market categories of aging and caregiving. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , medication management , social isolation , covid-19 , Aging, ageism. And the CDC has expressed concern about risks and modified procedures for older adults and pick-up of prescriptions in pharmacies.

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Health Technology Telehealth Medicare 91

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2018

Scams of the elderly is now a $37 billion industry. Scam revenue (and some say underestimated) has reached $37 billion annually – making scamming the elderly an industry that attracts new and creative entrants on a regular basis, equal in revenue to book publishing industry. and blocking the rest – or paying for a smartphone app.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 7, 2020

Consider the EU guidance : “The chief of the European Union's executive has warned the block's elderly that they may have to stay in lockdown till 2021 due to the new coronavirus.” category tags: Aging , Seniors , social isolation , social media. Consider interesting the behavior of ‘leaders’ during the time of Covid-19.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living , Home Care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Perhaps the assisted living staff or the senior’s family could no longer handle the older adult who may have significant care requirements. No matter where older adults live, technology capability matters.

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 125

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

PECOLA is a companion robot incorporating ambient intelligence for the elderly. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , robotics , IoT and home monitoring , hearables/hearing technology , digital health. the app will give off an alarm to notify all family members. Not in market yet. Learn more at OrCam.

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mHealth Digital Health Telemedicine Telehealth 121

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

But scams targeting the elderly have ballooned to a cost $3 billion annually , and that includes only those that are self-reported. See updated Report 2023 Market Overview Technology for Aging category tags: AgeTech , computers, broadband, and social networking It hasn’t happened yet.

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Interoperability Mobile Health EHR 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 9, 2019

The results of our pre/post evaluation of VR exposure show that virtual reality can help our elderly to maintain a high level of positive emotion and relaxation. category tags: VR/AR technology , Seniors , senior living , healthcare. Learn more at DigitalTrends. Wellness VR (Visual). Hope to see you there.].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

category tags: smart home , IoT and home monitoring , aging in place. Elder Home Monitoring 2.0 – it may fill a growing need. Several companies noted were at CES or with announcements at or around that time offered up the possible – a dashboard or collected insights about the wellbeing of an older adult at home.

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Health Data Digital Health Telehealth 164

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2018

Virtual caregiving, providing peace of mind to caregivers and improving the quality of life of their loved ones with voice-initiated, intelligent and connected services to support the elderly as they age-in-place. A sleeve that uses electrical stimulation to regenerate muscles and prevent falls for the elderly. Learn more at LifePod.

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2021

Hearing aids and music -- why is this so difficult to solve for the elderly? If necessary, refine tactics to match the most useful tools for your category. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , medication management , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants. Five interesting and useful technologies for older adults.

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Health Technology 80

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 6, 2022

KamiCare. " KamiCare sensors identify when an elderly person falls by detecting the abrupt changes of body movements. category tags: AI and machine learning , Family caregivers , Home Care. Learn more. See latest report The State of Voice-AI and Older Adults 2022.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 18, 2018

If we can speak a command to play music, control the lights, or open the shades – benefits can accrue to the elderly living alone, to individuals who are blind or have macular degeneration, and those with disabilities. category tags: Voice First/AI technology , home health care , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , digital health.

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mHealth Digital Health HIPAA Telehealth 78