Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In senior living or home care, permission to track this type of information is likely (hopefully) given at the onboarding of a new care recipient or resident. In senior living or home care, permission to track this type of information is likely (hopefully) given at the onboarding of a new care recipient or resident.

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Nursing 135

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

A striking shift from care in faci lities and hospitals to care in the home. . In-home care, home health care , remote patient monitoring (RPM) , fall detection , and other services that help older adults age in their homes are critical. What trends matter this year and beyond?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Given the persistent (if perhaps wrong-headed) belief that 'aging in place' at home is the goal and that AgeTech is the solution, this should be the year in which pay is revisited and tech is deployed. Or make that next year, since this year is winding down: here are the blog posts: Wa s this a ‘breakthrough’ on hearing aid pricing?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 27, 2020

These include senior housing, skilled nursing facilities, home care, home healthcare, or healthcare providers. Telehealth demands continued investment -- phone, video , remote patient and/or device monitoring. Telehealth demands continued investment -- phone, video , remote patient and/or device monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring? Both types of monitoring are increasingly likely to be found by home care professionals entering a new care recipient’s home. Passive activity monitoring assists with safety and wellbeing. RPM gained big momentum during 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Livindi includes a set of sensors which monitor activity and environment and recognize behavioral changes. Companies and products worth noting in August. The first, HomeEXCEPT was one missed at the time, emerging from a 2017 AARP Innovation Business Plan competition.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

In-home healthcare services will persist and expand. Telehealth services will remain to replace or supplement in person visits likely throughout 2022, and Dispatch Health’s in-home urgent care service is now available nationwide. As the population aged 65+ exceed 54 million, trends emerge. Sensor technology shrinks – and changes form.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

According to an AARP Healthy@Home report from 2008 , the only home tech device that had any level of awareness (91% of responders) was Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS). Today, the shortage of workers for assisted living and home care is a crisis. Was this just too early for the home monitoring category?

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Telehealth 108

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

Note the top trends that matter this Many changes underway in the enabling tech categories for older adults – including the importance of tech for home care agencies – not just the apps for the workers, but for care recipients, such as remote monitoring. Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Smart home devices are dumb about tech support. The future of the smart home and older adult users has not quite arrived. And for sure, the pandemic institutionalized the role of in-home telehealth, with CMS reimbursement presumed to become permanent , or at least regularly renewed. And they become frustrated.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. Sensor-based home monitoring was a 2007-ish innovation. Sensor-based home monitoring was a 2007-ish innovation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 6, 2022

C ognitive Systems Caregiver Aware. " Caregiver Aware is powered by WiFi Motion ™, which is currently active in over 70 countries and leverages connected IoT devices to transform the entire home into a motion-sensing network without additional hardware. Learn more. Honor Expert. Learn more. The process takes less than two minutes.

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MARCH 5, 2019

When assembling the 2019 tenth anniversary version, it was apparent that this year reflects change -- in the supply-demand balance in the overbuilt senior housing market, in policy changes driving health care services into the home, in market forecasts, and in the mix of vendors who serve the market. Seniors are working longer.

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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. In 2009, the market was forecast to be $20 billion by 2020. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2021

Our 4g/LTE IoT solutions remotely monitors our elders vital-signs while tracking people and goods through our robust web-based Dispatcher platform. 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

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Now add in the shortage of workers in home care , health care , and nursing homes. 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. Will robots help us in our homes – now and within 10 years?

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Nursing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 10, 2019

AI capabilities combined with a Voice First interface is increasingly expected – and so they are part of new offerings to help older adults, bothliving at home or in senior living communities. These remain to be validated, but between the smarter homes and the smart devices, we are heading into another wave of innovation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 31, 2018

In 2010, this association was renamed LeadingAge – from the Association of Homes and Services for the Aging – a mouthful, shortened to AAHSA. A small percent live in nursing homes. As it was at first encounter in 2009, it is an association of faith-based and non-profit senior living and aging-related services. OneClick.chat.

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Nursing 125

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 28, 2018

And four companies released new offerings to help professional and family caregivers improve monitoring and well-being among older adults: FallCall and FallCall Lite. And four companies released new offerings to help professional and family caregivers improve monitoring and well-being among older adults: FallCall and FallCall Lite.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2018

The boom in home care has side effects -- turnover and risk. We want to trust home care workers with aging parents. Given expanding life expectancies at age 65 – an average of 20 more years for men and more for women, the possibility of ‘aging in place’ in a private home may be growing. Cameras. Motion sensors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

A video might streamline these 22 steps to set up Google Home. While the Echo setup can be done from a browser on a device that has Wi-Fi, Google Home assumes a tablet or smartphone. Oh, and does the home already have Wi-Fi (and a router)? Okay that is enough about the What – and For Whom. . Okay, done.for now.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Last week they announced two features of a new watch, ECG monitoring and fall detection. Voice First -- The year began and ended with speaking. And shouting. We are attending again this year – and I cannot imagine what is left to say, so to speak. But I am sure the blaring will begin at the door. Here are the most read blog posts from 2019.

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Digital Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

Some see a market opportunity in services ( home care , home health care , home remodeling ). Some see a market opportunity in services ( home care , home health care , home remodeling ). In-home rehabilitation. Technology and aging R&D – who knew about this task force?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 25, 2018

Theora Connect™ is a wristwatch-style monitoring and communication device. TruSense Home uses sensor and GPS technology to discern the way a person lives—time spent sleeping, in the kitchen, or getting out of the house. April Showers, Innovation and Spring flowers. Theora Care Solutions. Learn more at Theora Care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 11, 2018

The result is a better caregiver, a better home care agency and a better way to care. Today CareAcademy provides home care agencies with a best in class online education platform.” Today CareAcademy provides home care agencies with a best in class online education platform.” Learn more at CareAcademy. CogniZance. PeoplePower.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2018

In Beta. "Personalized Care Engagement Platform provides a robust, yet simple way to facilitate coordination, communication, monitoring and service provision for caregivers and their loved ones directly from their phone, tablet or computer. All of the material included here is from the firms, listed in alphabetical order. Voice First.

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Telemedicine 83

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 16, 2018

Helping older people with technology in their homes – could that have revealed a sizable customer base of opportunity for more services? Besides Assured Living advisors, along with its 20,000 Geek Squad workers, now its offering an in-home technology advisor service (note the example in that article about a visit to the Villages in Florida).

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Health Technology 59

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 13, 2020

It seems reasonable that a device correctly pre-loaded with doses either at the pharmacy, by a home health worker or a nurse in senior living would improve accuracy of dosages. Programmable alerts, extensive remote monitoring of one or thousands with a simple, polished HIPAA-compliant portal. The CDC failed to mention technology.

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HIPAA Nursing Health Data 89

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Here are six prior attendees in the older adult, wellbeing category that serves older adults. CarePredict™, the leading AI-Powered Digital Health platform for senior care, announced today that their remote patient monitoring solution, CareGuide, was named a CES 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Digital Health category.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. Small, non-intrusive sensors are placed discretely around the home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When 60% of homes in the US have smart speakers of some type, talking to tech is here to stay. And for those a physical disability or those with low or no vision, consider the independence enabled by AI-enabled commands to smart home technology. Stanford Medicine offers a Partnership in AI-Assisted Care. We speak, therefore we are.

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Nursing 136

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 23, 2021

Today or soon you will launch a boomer/senior, home care offering or wearable product or even service to help other new entrants. If necessary, refine tactics to match the most useful tools for your category: 1) Is the website crisp and clear? The advice continues to hold true – with updated links and references.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

Through cameras installed inside the household, the solution can detect the motions and postures of beloved family members with AI and release warning messages at the moment of danger, such as falling, sitting too long, leaving home without a clear reason, etc. That was CES 2020. the app will give off an alarm to notify all family members.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 9, 2018

At the top of the retrieved page – an ad for ClearCare to help you ‘improve client and employee management’ – sounds like paid (agency) home care. Parks Associates provided 6 broad categories and examples in the 2016 Caregiving Innovation Frontiers report – the broadest categorization and definition of ‘care and caregiving.’

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 18, 2019

The WSJ investigation of Care.com has only added a level of urgency about the risky business of finding and placing caregivers in homes. Only eight states have authorized families to install them in nursing homes. This should be a national conversation – and it needs to apply to in-home care workers as well. No kidding.

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Nursing 98

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 2, 2018

You want to launch a boomer/senior, home health tech, caregiving, product or service. Not a PDF file attachment, not a Word file, but a viewable (online) press release with links, kept under 1 page, that is found under your website category of PRESS, MEDIA or NEWS. You read AARP and Pew survey research reports.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Soon you will launch a boomer/senior, home health tech product or service, or maybe a caregiver advisory service. Start with the home page that has modest and friendly graphics and images (not a ransom note with 27 different font size and colors) to identify what the product or service does or is.

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