Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2020, focus sharpens on technology market categories of aging and caregiving. The Apple Watch Series 4 disrupted the senior wearables market with its built-in ECG and fall detection, as well as Apple’s partnership with insurers. In 2019, Voice First represented a category of technologies like smart speakers and voice assistants.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Long-term care insurance: If you have long-term care insurance, it may cover some or all of the costs of a nursing home. Medicaid: Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for people with low income and assets. category tags: AI and machine learning.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

Family First partners with employers and insurers to make its service available to people juggling work and caregiving. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , senior living , Family caregivers , AgeTech Each part of the continuum wants to use technology to deliver better, more efficient, and health-aware care.

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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. What a difference a decade makes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

Papa’s “Family on Demand” expanded services to enterprises and insurance reimbursement -- Papa Pals help seniors with tasks that might fall to family members or home care workers -- providing new sources for ‘care in the home’ or home care.Now home care must double down on tech-enabled reinvention. That is a sign. More when there is more.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

To meet the future, Scott Melville, CEO of CHPA, described the organization’s 2020 project which is determining the categories the Association should represent. Among Scott’s many insightful comments, one really resonated with me and my health-economics mindset: on the growing presence of value-based insurance design in the U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Today’s Care use of tech and AI Future Care use of tech and AI Patient data is locked within care silos, communicated with difficulty AI tools will enable patient data to span care continuum boundaries Senior housing operators begin ramp up of data use Senior housing operators will optimize offerings based on data One size chatbots becoming ubiquitous (..)

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

" We’re bringing together personal service and modern technology to get you the products and supplies you need, covered by your health insurance and delivered right to your door. Most insurance plans cover at least a portion of the cost for medical equipment and supplies, so why pay entirely out of pocket?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

And then, as with Medicare advertising, let's see how we insurers and brokers can maximize the profitability of our relationship. Report is published -- read it here ] category tags: caregivers , healthcare , tech-enabled home care , home health care , senior living But you don’t see ads that say 'Turning 26?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

But while government and insurers see benefits of using technology to help people remain at home, device complexity, price, poor usability, rapid obsolescence combined with lack of standard professional training have created big barriers to broadening usage of an aging population, particularly for individuals aged 75+.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Care may be constrained to a few hours per day, just three times per week, whether by insurance reimbursement rates or cost to families – private pay full-time care is not viable. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care. Data about the recipient is transferred and utilized in the next stage of care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Professional services available on Independa include Dentulu (online dental consultation), Capital Rx (discount pharmacy platform), Coverdell (dental insurance benefits), WebMD (medical grade educational videos) and Sprio100 (fitness programs for seniors)." category tags: Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

How do tech firms and insurers overcome this reluctance? category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring , Technology - AARP. With persuasion? The home visit – no tech result, interesting motive. How about free Wi-Fi and a smart speaker? Just saying.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Offerings like Bose Hearphones and Nuheara IQ BOOST have been leaders in an amplification category call Hearables – which in turn will likely continue to push the rest of the industry to improve sound quality. Why doesn’t insurance cover them ? Will some less expensive (and even slightly insurance-subsidized ) options do the job?

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JANUARY 28, 2020

These opportunities reflect insurance offerings, well understood by Medicare Advantage providers to 22 million that now have that product. category tags: Technology - AARP , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , aging in place , Aging. Add moves to senior living or 55+ communities, use of move managers and downsizing specialists.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

Moving forward, this type of technology, often AI-enabled, is increasingly likely to be part of offerings from health insurers to improve subscriber engagement and wellbeing of health plan participants, enabling them to remain at home (and out of the hospital). category tags: social isolation , AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Checking out a report on smart speaker usage categories, people apparently are NOT using them, ironically, to purchase goods. If it can be enabled (one way or the other), it will be, even in the health provider/insurer segment, where the experiments are numerous and sometimes silly. Whew, that's a relief. That answer is simple.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Population health data will help identify those at greatest risk of health issues and likely readmission to hospitals (see Figure 1 Table of Categories that may matter). . Figure 1: Table of technology categories that may matter. category tags: baby boomers , Seniors , aging in place. Implication/Benefit/risk.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Louisville ownership has transformed both its members and sponsorship -- senior living, skilled nursing, healthcare, insurers. category tags: Family caregivers , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AI and machine learning , AgeTech Here are five exhibitors/content from the Aging 2.0 Nomo International, Inc.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Insurers see the opportunity in care in the home. category tags: Home Care , AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , senior living Home health care providers currently report turning away over 25% of referred patients due to staff shortages.” Optum, a division of United Health Group , has launched a $3.3

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2019

Who is ‘they’, how much can they ‘get’, and is there insurance that pays for them? Insurance coverage – a nightmare patchwork of options. So let’s see – uncorrected hearing loss is correlated with poorer health outcomes, one of which could be fall risk, another dementia.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 6, 2022

MeetCaregivers aims to solve problems facing seniors, families, and caregivers by promoting access to high-quality care through strategic partnerships with health insurers and third-party payers throughout the country. category tags: AI and machine learning , Family caregivers , Home Care. Meet Caregivers.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Consider the high price (upwards of $6000 per pair), limited insurance company assistance, and much individual isolation, misery, and family frustration. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , computers, broadband, and social networking , fall prevention, fall detection. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Remote configuration and updates will be standard, and health insurers will be interested in smart home technology as a deterrent to hospitalization. Imagine “ Family on Demand ” as a form of insurance-reimbursed services. category tags: Home Care , smart home , wearables, smart watch , Mobile PERS.

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JULY 18, 2018

led insurer Cigna in March 2018 to launch Answers by Cigna. category tags: Voice First/AI technology , home health care , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , digital health. Alexa has the answer to ‘Where’s the Nearest Hospital” but sends you to WebMD for how to treat a sunburn. There’s Mayo Clinic First Aid Skill.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Most insurance companies do not cover use of passive sensors in the home. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring. Properly educating families on the benefits, including those tested by the home care provider, can result in families paying for passive remote monitoring technologies.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

The offering of remote consultation, diagnosis, and suggested treatment is now a white-labeled offering embedded inside insurance, health care providers, and employee wellness services. Amwell is now moving forward to help providers offer ‘ hospital at home’ – now part of multiple insurance offerings. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 29, 2020

Covid-19 and its impact and implications, starting early in the month following event cancellations , travel bans and stampedes , telehealth insurance changes and senior living visitation lockdowns. category tags: covid-19 , Seniors , Aging , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 19, 2023

In this report, we use the term Voice First to identify this emerging category of voice-controlled devices, applications or services. While the category has obvious benefits for those with visual and motor difficulties, its power to improve the lives of all older adults is significant.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Each interviewee was asked for thoughts in the context of the categories suggested by ChatGPT and any other categories that will improve the work processes for those in the care-related industries – home care, home healthcare, senior living care (including nursing homes), and hospital discharge processes to any of those.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And then, as with Medicare advertising, let's see how we insurers and brokers can maximize the profitability of our relationship. category tags: Scams -- all types , seniors and aging policy , Seniors , fraud protection , insurance Let’s talk about your choices.'

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Lloyd Price

JULY 30, 2018

Start-ups in each category One of the first things he'll ask the entrepreneur to do is to point to where their product might be in the box. Here are a few examples of companies that Yeshwant and I would put in each category. In January, a single therapy to treat a rare form of blindness received a price tag of $850,000.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2023

For planning purposes, insurers and actuaries say to plan for a longer life. category tags: Generative AI , AgeTech , Aging, ageism On the one hand, you no doubt have read that life expectancy at birth has shrunk (due to Covid, opioid deaths, suicide) by three years to age 76. On the other hand, life expectancy at 65?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

Patients can simply text the practice phone line, making it convenient to access live video sessions, manage appointments, send insurance and payment information, even if they don’t have access to high-speed internet. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AgeTech , healthcare , telehealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

Patients can simply text the practice phone line, making it convenient to access live video sessions, manage appointments, send insurance and payment information, even if they don’t have access to high-speed internet. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AgeTech , healthcare , telehealth. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2020

Many other changes have been put in place, eliminating co-pays, adding coverage for telehealth for those without insurance, and many others many of them state-by-state (see Florida and California , for example). category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 8, 2022

Professional services available on Independa include Dentulu (online dental consultation), Capital Rx (discount pharmacy platform), Coverdell (dental insurance benefits), WebMD (medical grade educational videos) and Sprio100 (fitness programs for seniors), among others. Learn more. ITRI PoseFit. Learn more at Withings.

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