Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Along with CareAngel and Papa , the company now focuses, no surprise, on healthcare. While health care tech is necessary as the pandemic proved, and reimbursement certainly keeps the company going, it is not sufficient. Mobility technology and services should gain a database like AbleData – now gone.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

This followed late-year 2020 activity, including the $10 million in funding for tech training company GetSetUp. And note the $18 million of funding for Papa from Comcast Ventures to combat social isolation in older adults and launch tech-enabled health offering called Papa Health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

Americans love grocery stores, responsible retailers, technology and Amazon, Axios and Harris Poll found in this year’s top 100 visible company poll. Government is the worst “company” in America according to “The Citizens of America,” in the words of Axios and Harris Poll. Government (#100).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

Most of the startup companies noted in this 2017 report, Tech-Enabled Home Care , either disappeared, like Home Hero, pivoted like Honor or had to be overhauled, like Care.com. It is obvious that where it is feasible, technology is introduced to compensate for lack of workers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Today Papa has expanded its role from rides to healthcare to helping older adults with technology. The constant stream of new technology requires training and support – and spells profit for companies that can deliver it cost effectively. Many tech offerings are still too hard to set up and use.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

A tectonic force underneath growing distrust and mis-trust is a “techlash,” coined by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in this report , finding in their words, “growing animus toward Big Tech companies.” The biggest wild card for 2020 in health/care will be a privacy breach impacting one of the Big Tech companies.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In the past decade, I’ve been spending a lot of time considering SDoH through a variety of lenses across the health/care ecosystem, including care providers like hospitals, health insurance companies, pharma and life science, retail health care front doors, and non-profits and foundations.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Big tech revealed growing interest in older adults and investors saw the potential in firms like Papa, which provides (reimbursed) varied assistance to older adults. Not just for Zoom, the company , but for many who wished to spend more time thinking and less time in airports. What are a few of the trends that will make that feasible?

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Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

Results: This study provides proof-of-concept of the viability for researchers and private companies to work collaboratively towards a common good. Affiliative Tendencies Papa reported that 53% of users felt less lonely and that virtual companions have performed a range of tasks with elderly users (e.g.,

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