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The care future for older adults needs housing and tech support

Aging in Place Technology Watch

But only 14% of Americans can afford long-term care in the home. And if they could afford it, only 4% of their homes are aging-ready. category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living And the NORC study underscores the housing problem for the Forgotten Middle. In what year?

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Health Care Costs for a Couple in Retirement in the U.S. Reach $300,000

Health Populi

While the rate of increase year-on-year since then has slowed, the $300,000 price-tag for retiree health care costs is a huge number few Americans have saved for. That $300K splits up unequally for an opposite-gender couple (in the words of Fidelity) between $157,000 for women and $143,000 for men.

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The hype of aging in place -- so bad for so many

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Perhaps that retrofit is not affordable. The odds are good these days that the 50-65 are still working and can afford where they live. If they can afford it, they buy suites of sensors to help -- otherwise their families, ever-optimistic, spend the money. Perhaps the house is old and requires significant maintenance.

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Challenging Innovators to Design for Older Adults: 2014 -2024

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Or believing that a direct to consumer approach was affordable or scalable – before the broad adoption of social-media based marketing or the introduction of Conversational AI. At the time, the Affordable Care Act incentives, for example. category tags: seniors and aging policy , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones

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It's time for solutions -- not products -- for aging in place

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Assume that, as baby boomers, they can afford to plan ahead – and they do in many dimensions of their lives. category tags: Home Care , smart home , aging in place , AgeTech , baby boomers The business opportunity is clear, the marketing message is murky.

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The care future for older adults needs housing and tech support

Aging in Place Technology Watch

But only 14% of Americans can afford long-term care in the home. And if they could afford it, only 4% of their homes are aging-ready. category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living And the NORC study underscores the housing problem for the Forgotten Middle. In what year?

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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Health Populi

And, many tags related to mental health became well-used, such as #MentalHealthMatters, #MentalHealthAwareness, #WellBeing, and #BellLetsTalk from the campaign addressing stigma. Tweeters also expanded their use of new phrases like doom scrolling, trauma dumping, and meeting fatigue in 2019 into 2020.