Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

They are hopeful about the new technology designed to help them. category tags: aging in place , AgeTech , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection The articles and tech industry focus on ‘aging in place’ and fear. And it’s not unlike the ‘I’ve Fallen and I can’t Get Up’ fear.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Technology solutions augment care – not replacing family or support. Care-related service organizations are taking a closer look at technologies that could help them cope more effectively with staffing shortages and other issues. For all ages, isolation is increasingly untenable without the technology to connect to others.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

But there’s a problem: AARP’s tech trends survey from 2024 and their 2023 guidance from AARP on inclusive design practices, it’s clear and as the AARP report notes, “No one prefers badly designed, over-complicated products.” Tech user experience experts focus on everyone except older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The 2023 Technology for Aging Market Overview is published. But it is notable in 2023 that: Older adults will adapt to change and adopt new technology. If an affordable technology can be found that meets a personal need (or answers a compelling question ), these days, people will find it and get it to work for them.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

AARP and OATS do not focus on technology training for iPads. Google search reveals a number of YouTube videos on how to use the iPad, but none sanctioned by either AARP or Apple. category tags: Aging, ageism , AgeTech , smartphones , wearables, smartwatch , tablets. Maybe GetSetup classes on iPad Basics will help.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 23, 2022

We might learn from the upcoming American Community Survey (ACS) data release which households have broadband connectivity, own a computer or other devices – down to a level of granularity that includes that rarely surveyed category, age 85+. Yet consider the OATS/AARP 22 million of the 65+ that lack home broadband (derived from the Census)?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2022

The growth has been tracked most recently in survey samples that compared the most recent with prior time periods: AARP surveyed 2063 and Pew Research surveyed 1502 adults. Yet older adults are still stranded without technology by their geography. Figure 1 A look at regions stranded by geography -- without technology access.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

Or your aging mother doesn’t have any of those devices – only 62% of those aged 70+ own smartphones, according to AARP. is tracking technology innovations in the time of Covid-19 , noting the categories of innovation and the open calls for help in that category. Your healthcare provider isn’t running any training today.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2024

A few organizations at these events, like AARP (VIVE) and Best Buy Health (HIMSS), clearly have a vested interest in the health status and care of aging adults. Both HIMSS and VIVE need to take a look at patient trends, not to mention the lack of integration of technology supposedly to help patients. [See

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2023

And it is fair to say that the applications of it is making its way into the world of older adults, this AARP article describes its uses for older adults in generating a letter to contest a medical bill. Before the recent hype cycle , there have been multiple technologies offered for older adults that incorporate AI and machine learning.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

One might well argue that Amazon has and will continue to have a major impact on the quality of life for older adults (assuming senior privacy concerns and technology barriers to adoption are overcome – more on that another time): Offered low-price Voice First devices. And today you can see AARP’s focus in its website AARP Voice.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

They can be shepherded by organizations like AARP , appear in international exhibits like the Swiss pavilion, the Korean and beyond. For older adults, that included the following potentially obsolete categories: Medical alert devices (fall detectors, communicators, etc.), Pew and AARP smartphone statistics in 2023 may verify.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Then AARP and OATS joined together to teach tech to older adults. Technology investment targeting older adults has also grown this past year, including that from Primetime Partners including Bold for senior fitness and and Ziegler Linkage with VirtuSense for fall prevention. . Maybe 2020 was the tipping point and 2021 is the year.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Or will they believe the hype and AARP checklists about aging in place ? Will older adults be able to sell their homes and afford to move at an earlier age -- when they might enjoy the company of others and depend less on driving their own cars ? Should the decision really be about considering the cost of home modification?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 22, 2023

Likely adoption by the 65+ population has far exceeded the 61% percent in the 2022 Pew survey or the most recent AARP Tech Trends survey. AARP offers tips and tricks for both iPhone and Android phones. Smartphone use among older adults is growing – is usability the next hurdle? Why on earth?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

AARP fuels it with survey results (77% of the 50+ want to age in place). And AARP helps add brand recognition to the term ' Age Tech ' with a collaborative of companies at the Nexus of Longevity and Technology to deal with health issues and mitigate fear. The hype of aging in place. Which means it will become very useful.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2020

AARP recently published several new reports -- all worth a read. The survey reports, about the 50+ gamers and 50+ tech trends , each identify an age band of the 70+, something AARP began a few years ago and kudos to them, that banding continues among some of their research reports.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

In the time of Covid-19, some are talking about an increasing use of technology in their nursing homes. Others are discussing the race to enable ‘televisits’ -- noting outreach from AARP to CMS to boost the requirement for enabling technology in nursing homes. The State of Florida gave tablets to 150 nursing homes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2023

In addition to the government-supported discount on broadband access, the report recommended “uture-focused tools and assistive technology, such as smart homes, wearable blood pressure and heart monitoring devices, automated pill dispensers, e-learning modules, task management apps, speech amplification and adaptation systems, and geo-tracking.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

People want to age in place – just ask them, as AARP did in 2018. category tags: aging in place , Family caregivers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Aging in place – the latest trend. Of course, in the not-cited part of that survey, only 59% expected to be able to do so. Rant off. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 7, 2023

Six mobility offerings from AARP AgeTech Collaborative. AARP’s AgeTech Collaborative launched in 2021 with a splash (and 50 startups) that has widened into an age wave, or a sort of Match.com for age-related companies to find others, including collaborators, sponsors, pilots, and more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

But according to a late 2019 AARP survey , only 20% of the 50+ population use voice assistants – and for the 70+, only 12%. 2020 is that year – when a category is subsumed into technology ecosystems. Judging by the downloads of The Future of Voice First Technology and Older Adults 2018 , industry observers saw the potential.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

AARP sponsored an entire large area for its AgeTech Summit – talks and displays of new tech for an older adult market, cataloguing participants in an online directory. J abra Enhance Plus sets a new standard for bringing together the convenience of true wireless earbuds with advanced hearing technology to alleviate unaddressed hearing needs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

According to AARP, smartphone ownership is way up, even among those aged 70+. But that same survey notes that many believe that technology is not being designed with older adults in mind. NOTE: Check out the 2022 Technology for Aging Market Overview ]. How about those aged 65+? Consider the voice-enabled tech concierge.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 17, 2020

Technology companies have stepped up to fill in some of the access gaps. More technology changes have followed and are anticipated moving forward. Technology Adoption – Pew Research. Technology Adoption -- AARP. The AARP Research survey of older adults was completed in 2019, published in early 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

AARP fuels it with survey results (77% of the 50+ want to age in place). And AARP helps add brand recognition to the term ‘ Age Tech’ with a collaborative of companies at the Nexus of Longevity and Technology to deal with health issues and mitigate fear. The articles and tech industry focus on aging in place and fear.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

An AARP Foundation report published in early October verified what we already knew. So what is the role of technology in mitigating social isolation today? category tags: social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. What’s been going on with older adults in the context of social isolation and loneliness?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2020, focus sharpens on technology market categories of aging and caregiving. AARP published a new report that showed growing interest in technology among those aged 70+. Voice first technology – it’s everywhere and in everything. The hearing technology market is seeing disruption from multiple angles.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 30, 2019

In 2018, technology utilization grew – so did frustrations. While Internet and social media technology use has plateaued over all age ranges, Facebook still has captured only 41% of the 65+. In early 2019, AARP Research published a technology survey taken in 2018 which showed ownership of smartphones growing to 65% of the 65+.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

Trends accelerated by the pandemic continue to emerge, and the population aged 50+ will continue to purchase and use technology, accounting for an estimated 51% of technology spending by 2030. Sensor technology shrinks and changes form for health care. Disruptions in the hearing technology market will persist.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

Between boosting the deployment of telehealth technologies, once-delayed initiatives became instantly late. Consumers are on board with telehealth , and engagement technologies like smartphones and tablets are offered through Medicare Advantage , plus a wave of other pandemic-related tactics and free offerings appeared.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

And AARP’s newest technology adoption report, just published , notes that 20% of the 70+ age range own a wearable. 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."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

But this is just the tip of the condescension iceberg: Go ahead, Google ‘technology grandma’. Pew hasn’t bothered lately, but AARP recently published a survey of tech ownership among the 50+. Meanwhile, the average age of a first time grandparent in the US is 50 and by age 65, according to AARP data, 96% are grandparents.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

The show is over, the press dispersed, the awards won. CES 2024 is over, with 135,000 attendees, and AI as the story of the show , and according to AARP, offering the promise of better aging and even helping to fix the caregiving crisis. category tags: AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline , robotics , hearables/hearing technology

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2020

That was then… In early 2020, focus sharpens on market categories of aging and caregiving. AARP published a new report that showed growing interest in technology among those aged 70+. The resulting loneliness and depression revealed a glaring digital divide between the technology haves and have-nots among older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2019

A good example from the past 3 years: the PCAST report, summarized in an ASA publication by David Lindeman: ' Independence, Technology, and Connection in Older Age." Policies to improve innovation in assistive and robotic technologies? The complexity and lack of integration across products and categories is worse than ever.

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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. People want to age in place – just ask them, as AARP did in 2018. Technologies from the Argentum 2020 Virtual Conference and Suppliers. It’s been an interesting technology week. Agin in place – the latest trend.

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