Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

But overall, 76% of the full population surveyed who are aged 70+ do not believe that technology was designed with them in mind. And the overall responder group, aged 50+, agreed that the user experience for older people was poor or difficult, technology was too complex or that they needed more training (see page 44).

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MARCH 13, 2024

Aging and older adults are low profile at both events. 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.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2024

Publicly available up-to-date stats about the older adult population is weak or non-existent. The most recent version of ChatGPT admits it cannot state the current population in the US that is aged 75+. million people aged 75+ today? Would it surprise that 42% of the 65+ population (60.5 million) is aged 75+?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Tech for quality of life – aging or not? Or are these ‘quality of life’ technologies for all ages, especially those who live alone or in rural areas? Examining those numbers, one might think this is an exciting time to be investing in or offering this AgeTech – especially studying this well-populated Market Map.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Events are ahead like Aging 2.0 Together is an AI-driven health assistant designed to make health management seamless for aging Americans and their caregivers. category tags: AI and machine learning , Scams -- all types , senior living , AgeTech Older adults and caregivers are served by a number of offerings and events.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

The 2024 Market Overview of Technology for Aging will be published during CES 2024. Caregiving and other demands of an aging population gained significant government attention and new initiatives during 2023. category tags: caregivers , Family caregivers , Home Care , computers, broadband, and social networking

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 9, 2020

There are more than 69 million people aged 60+ in the US. The oldest adults that appear to be at greatest risk dying from Covid-19 are not those of a specific age, but those in the oldest age ranges, particularly with 'underlying conditions.' per 100,000 of population) during the month of March indicated 13.5%

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Long ago ‘aging in place’ terminology emerged with a different meaning. And in 2013, it was promoted on the book circuit by former HUD director, Henry Cisneros about his 87-year-old mother – they were both insistent that she ‘age in place.’ Meanwhile, how about an aging and reality check-up? These are just that, averages.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

Today, one-third of adults aged 65+ live alone. And the percentage living alone increases as people reach their 80s – 58% of older adults aged 80+ live alone now. Voice services will support a resident as they age in the community. AI will be applied to improving wellbeing in old age.

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APRIL 14, 2021

Pew’s survey categories included : Age, Rural/Urban, Male-Female, Income, Race, and Education. Let’s say that 77% of the American population are adults (using Census data). Too bad there were no correlations between Age, Education, Income with Internet use. Not a trivial number. But we can guess what we could find. Crazy, huh?

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AUGUST 11, 2022

population ages 65 and over will be 83.9 category tags: AgeTech , senior living. Home Health Care Services experienced an even larger increase – 50/5% -- during the same period.” These assertions are built on the Service Annual Survey (2021). Consider the details shown in this table: The U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Family caregivers cannot provide enough care for a growing population of the 80+. AARP Public Policy research in 2013 revealed a future crisis in availability of people to care for an aging population (“You take care of Mom, but who will take care of you?”). It's nice to think about the 80+ population as healthy and capable.

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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+. And we may be able to examine age in relationship to tech ownership.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Addressing social determinants, where social isolation and loneliness are one powerful SDoH across ages and especially for elders (see #6). Serving the safety net and rebuilding public health, recognizing that our mental health is integral to our overall health and wellbeing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The US population is aging and will be needing more care. Aging in place preferences parallel demand for private duty home care and home health. You read it every day in the popular press – the bad news about the 65+ and their future care burden and the good news about the 65+ and their wealth (22% of US spending in 2022).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 14, 2019

Each time the population aged 65+ is counted, it’s a bigger number. Consider signals from today's older adults that will only become more pronounced as the boomers move past today's upper age of 73. Only 10% of the senior population moves to senior living , and to preserve their savings, they do so at a later date.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Despite the 50+ population representing one third of the US population, they only show up in 13% of advertising imagery. The AARP report authors analyzed the Getty images – and observed that even though 69% of people aged 65-73 own a smartphone, less the 5% of the images of technology included any older adults.

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JUNE 16, 2022

Boston Consulting Group analyzed the care crisis recently asserts that the lack of paid or unpaid care workers to provide care of children or aging parents may prevent them from filling unfilled jobs, noting the 99 million people today who are not in the workforce. A well-known consulting firm assesses the growing care gap.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It is extracted from the Technology for Aging 2022 Market Overview, to be posted following CES, and including 30 offerings that were not in the 2021 version. Four Trends to Watch from the 2022 Market Overview Technology for Aging. As the population aged 65+ exceed 54 million, trends emerge. All text is from public media.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Caregiving and other demands of an aging population are gaining attention. In a University of Michigan national poll in November, 2022, more than half of adults aged 50-80 say they have helped an adult aged 65+ with health, personal and other types of care needs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a category, like scribes, that seems obvious when you think about the current healthcare labor shortage and a frail aging patient population. For the wellbeing future of aging baby boomers and their families, there is no choice. Consider the telehealth-enabled virtual patient sitter.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Technology for Aging 2020 Market Overview. It took the aging of the baby boomers and the sheer size of the aging population to turn a 2009 market niche into a 2020 major market category. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The timing is right – as 56 million Americans are now aged 65+, looming older population growth has awakened the sleeping giant. As an aging population grows, the supporting labor force for aging services, both in communities and for in-home care, simply isn’t there, lured away by better pay across multiple sectors.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

as penetrating one third of the US population – 111.8 But according to a late 2019 AARP survey , only 20% of the 50+ population use voice assistants – and for the 70+, only 12%. But tech spending has jumped across all age segments since the pandemic began. For those that have them, they are being used daily.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

It took the combination of 71 million boomers, a pandemic emergency, and the sheer size of the aging population to transform a 2009 market niche into this 2021 market category worthy of investment-- less about products specifically designed for older adults as it is about the marketing of many existing offerings as useful to them.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

And for some, technologies were not affordable – median income of a household age 75+ is $34,925. Looked at by age, 27% of the 65+ population lack access to broadband. According to AARP’s December 2019 research report , 62% of those aged 70+ own a smartphone and 40% own a tablet. Device access.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Consider the baby boomer population growth. But the more fundamental issue remains: The core beliefs of the advertisers and marketers is that people of Medicare age are gullible, isolated enough to talk to anyone, and have done zero research. The US population is aging and will be needing more care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2019

The field is growing , no doubt in parallel to the aging baby boomer population, but it is a very small field that is projected to produce only 3100 new jobs by 2026. There is a disconnect between the responders in this survey and the general population in their age ranges. They’ are audiologists.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

You may be one of the dwindling population ( 34% are homeowners ) who have landlines in the US (even digital phone-service based). Certainly one factor is the growth in the number of older adults living alone , including 44% of women aged 75+. The scam: You may know someone of Medicare age with a phone?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

By 2030, 20% of the US population will be over the age of 65 -- and likely to be obese and living for at least 8 years with some level of disability. category tags: robotics , Family caregivers , Home Care. They may be solo agers – no children, spouse or partner. The demand for home care workers will grow by at least by 37%.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But its importance at every age, especially for older adults, is ever more critical – when you consider how much useful information is available to us from or about our healthcare providers and related services. category tags: AgeTech , smartphones , robotics , AI and machine learning , VR/AR technology.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

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. million people aged 65+. Of these, 22 million people age 75+ , 9 million age 75-79 , 6 million are aged 80-84 , and 6.5

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Aging population and healthcare changes make further growth of home care inevitable. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care. And many already at home and in assisted living need the same care. Even without the pandemic, home care was slated to grow. Updated care portals for families are part of the standard of care.

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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. There is a sizable (54 million) population of adults in their 70s (many still working) and age 80+. Smartphone use among older adults is growing – is usability the next hurdle? Why on earth?

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Perhaps this is a good long-term sign that there will be more tech minds outside these big firms to allocate to innovation for an aging population that needs new ideas from the best and the brightest. And these folks are aged 35-44. The four posts for November 2022: AI matters for older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

As the population aged 65+ exceed 54 million, trends emerge. Here are just four of the trends identified in the 2022 Market Overview, Technology for Aging. . To learn more, read the 2022 Market Overview, Technology for Aging and the December report, The Future of Smart Homes and Older Adults. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Consider a long-ago AARP document that examined technology use of the 65+ population. The survey was fielded in December of 2007 with a population of 907 adults aged 65-98 (the mean age was 74). This population is rarely surveyed today, despite the growing lifespan of the 65+. Remember Healthy@Home in 2008 ?

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