Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2018

From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal – pops up a dramatic headline, The Loneliest Generation , describing how baby boomer Americans, more than ever, are aging alone. Okay, let’s remind ourselves that baby boomers make up the population ranging in birth year from 1946-1964. of the silent generation, born before 1946.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

It's 2021 and baby boomers turn 75. With the aging of baby boomers, newer offerings like Support.com (any connected device) will tailor messages to reach an older adult audience. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , AI , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , technology support.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Beginning a new report -- The Future of AI and Older Adults - thoughts welcome] category tags: AI and machine learning , AgeTech , baby boomers AI is also being used to create smarter and more accessible homes, and to develop technology that can be used to help seniors with mobility and transportation."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Add the baby boomer population growth – all will pass 65 in just 7 more years -- in conjunction with a shortage of workers able and willing to help them. category tags: Home Care , home health care , senior living , AI and machine learning Demand and costs are up, and availability of workers is down.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 31, 2022

category tags: fall prevention, fall detection , AgeTech , baby boomers. Several have said that the brains of these innovations, however, should initiate ‘ at the edge’ -- that is, closest to where the care recipient actually is, not in the cloud.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2022

There are simply not enough workers to care for the aging boomers and beyond. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , baby boomers , senior living. This type of tech had obvious benefits, even then, but today, what was obvious then has become a crisis of care today. Learn more.

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MARCH 7, 2024

All baby boomers (born 1946-1964) will be aged 65 by 2030. Still valid -– advice from experts on how not to succeed in a murky market. category tags: seniors and aging policy , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones In that respect, nothing has changed, except the investors, featured companies and presenters, of course.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

category tags: hearables/hearing technology , hearing loss , baby boomers. Figure 1 Percentage of adults 45+ who used a hearing aid 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . Figure 2 Percentage of adults 45+ with difficulty hearing even when using a hearing aid 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

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. This report interview 21 pioneering health and research executives.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

RockHealth, the “first venture fund dedicated to digital health”, has declared this year a turning point in the market of offerings for older adults (aka baby boomers, particularly those 65+). category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Family caregivers. Learn more at TomorrowHealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A decade from now, the oldest baby boomers will be 86. category tags: robotics , Family caregivers , Home Care. Context matters: consider the likely status of people in 10 years. It makes you think. Asked this question recently and pondered. What will be the context at that time? Consider Japan’s use of robots with the elderly.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

As 2022 begins, the oldest baby boomer turns 76. Because of the sheer size of the older adult market, and the wealth of baby boomers, vendors increasingly see them as constituents for new offerings. As the population aged 65+ exceed 54 million, trends emerge. Hearing technology markets will be further disrupted in 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For the wellbeing future of aging baby boomers and their families, there is no choice. category tags: Conversational and generative AI , healthcare , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health Will these changes make their way into senior living, nursing homes and home care?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 11, 2023

See future -- by 2030 all baby boomers will be 65+. See latest report, The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 ] category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

There are wearables that can predict the onset of stroke , track at home blood pressure , as well as fit into Air Tags or Smart Tags that can pinpoint the location of a purse, phone (or suitcase) left behind or a person who is lost. category tags: AgeTech , AI and machine learning , home health care , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The oldest baby boomer (of the total of 54 million) is 76; 34% of the US population is aged 50+ (meaning 108 million people); 12% of that 50+ population are solo agers (13 million) -- previously and hideously titled ‘elder orphans.’ category tags: AgeTech , computers, broadband, and social networking , hearables , smartphones.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

What these individuals were not, however, is socially isolated, as many of today’s boomers may be. A conundrum – will less healthy baby boomers be among the centenarians? Baby boomers may have a longer life expectancy at 65 than their parents – most likely due to availability of more sophisticated health care and medications.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Or to put the question another way, what is it that these devices do that can help maintain or improve health, noting that 32% of baby boomers today get no exercise whatsoever , according to the CDC. The boomers, turning 65 at a rate of 10,000 a day, are pushing and prodding assumptions, deadlines, and pundit predictions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The boomer-and-beyond market has caught the eye of the tech industry. RockHealth, the “first venture fund dedicated to digital health”, has declared this year a turning point in the market of offerings for older adults (aka baby boomers, particularly those 65+). Kiplinger: High Tech Aids for Aging in Place, September, 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2022

category tags: assistive technologies , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , baby boomers , Television/Smart TV. If you can whisper the search inquiry for articles about accessibility , speaking may be our best accessibility improvement ever.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

And the shortages in home care , home healthcare , skilled nursing facilities and senior living are juxtaposed with an overall labor shortage, just as the oldest baby boomer has turned 76 and has significant remaining life expectancy. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care. That is a sign.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The launch of that first report was timed in conjunction with the What’s Next Boomer Business Summit of 2009 and offered a chance to speak publicly about a market category that had been largely ignored by tech industry analysts. billion by 2022 -- the year the oldest baby boomer turns 76. All of that has changed by 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

In 2022, the oldest baby boomer turns 76, while the population aged 65+ will exceed 54 million. Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A decade from now, the oldest baby boomers will be 86. Yet a new study just published noted that 91% of baby boomers felt overwhelmed by technology, with computers being the most daunting device. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , robotics , Home Care , home health care , senior living , SNF. Welcome to iPad!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It’s a new year and the baby boomers turn 75. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , computers, internet and social networking. Time for the Market Overview Technology for Aging 2021. Issues have often been noted which act as as barriers to accessing services like telehealth for example. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As 2022 begins, the oldest baby boomer turns 76. Because of the sheer size of the older adult market, and the wealth of baby boomers, vendors increasingly see them as constituents for new offerings. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2022

So how will the paid caregiver gap be closed as the baby boomers age into the 80+ age range, only four years away from the oldest baby boomer, now 76? category tags: Home Care , Family caregivers. Those with chronic diseases have a higher incidence of disability in activities of daily living (ADLs).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Consider the baby boomer population growth. Report is published -- read it here ] category tags: caregivers , healthcare , tech-enabled home care , home health care , senior living Pressure is growing in senior living to ‘keep people well’ in conjunction with a higher level of acuity of care needs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

In 2022, the oldest baby boomer turns 76, while the population aged 65+ will exceed 54 million. And the shortages in home care , home healthcare , skilled nursing facilities and senior living are juxtaposed with an overall labor shortage, just as the oldest baby boomer has turned 76 and has significant remaining life expectancy.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Another study noted that the average family caregiver is a baby boomer woman. Click here to for the Technology for Aging 2023 Market Overview category tags: Family caregivers , seniors and aging policy

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

category tags: baby boomers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Home Care , IoT and home monitoring , Voice Assistants/Smart Speakers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. This change will no doubt drive 2019 interest in labor-saving caregiving technology in both home care and senior living settings.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2018

The first five are finalists in the 2018 Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit Business Plan competition. category tags: baby boomers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , Family caregivers , VR/AR technology , voice/AI technology. Two sets of pitches, ten finalists across the competitions. Learn more from OhmniLabs.

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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. category tags: hearing loss , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging , seniors and aging policy. They’ are audiologists.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In fact, older adults have often been ignored by marketers even as boomers have all the money. category tags: baby boomers , digital health , telehealth , social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. Here are four blog posts from November: Filling in the Tech Basics. Read more. . .

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This theory has been tested within the healthcare industry over the last few years as the COVID-19 pandemic aligned with, and expedited, the retirement of many employees in the Baby Boomer generation. Nearly 29 million Baby Boomers retired in 2020, three and a half million more than in 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 1, 2019

Finally, will we read the same lament in 10 years about the large population of now-aged boomers who cannot afford assisted living? category tags: senior living , baby boomers. Where to recruit this low-paid workforce in a high employment time, competing with wage levels of Walmart and McDonald’s? Count on it.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Given the pace of baby boomers aging into their 80’s and beyond, we may soon be at the stage where housing developers, particularly 55+ ‘Proptech’ visionaries, will build in technology that can meet the needs of older adults. It’s a good start down the path of making physical property smarter about older occupants.

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