Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Tech services for remote monitoring of people and patients took off and stayed aloft. The post-Covid demand for in-home services plus the baby boomer growth trajectory has had multiple and permanent impacts. Note that the oldest baby boomer is now aged 76. Baby boomers are turning 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day until 2030.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Rather, it suggested that while form factors are changing (from pendant to smart watch to home sensor technology), the shortage of labor in the caregiving market means that tech to help 66 million caregivers matters more than ever. Tech for quality of life – aging or not? And where does caregiver tech fit?

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MARCH 10, 2022

The perfect storm has arrived to drive tech adoption in the home and care services. 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. That is a sign.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And finally, to cap things off, today the big guns of the tech industry, will spend seven hours behind closed doors discussing how to regulate AI. And as with all Gartner hype cycles and notable tech trends, even though execs are interested, most do not have an AI strategy. Consider the telehealth-enabled virtual patient sitter.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

It's 2021 and baby boomers turn 75. The proliferation of devices and their non-simplicity gave birth to Best Buy’s Geek Squad into Total Tech Support (any device) and $10 million of funding for learning platforms. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , AI , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , technology support.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

No surprise – tech innovators see the opportunity – usually from personal experience. category tags: fall prevention, fall detection , AgeTech , baby boomers. And that the costs (estimated at $754 million in 2015) were mostly paid by Medicare and Medicaid (the latter likely in nursing homes.)

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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. These should be of particular note to startups and tech companies that want to reach the older adult market. Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia.

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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. But approximately 33% of baby boomers are obese, only 8.3%

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sarah Krouse and Anne Steele, the WSJ journalists, tag-team doing a great job quantifying the women’s fiscal force, quoting Blair Kohan, an agent with UTA who represents Greta Gerwig, the Barbie movie’s director, saying, “Women have always been a deeply underestimated economic force.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

The articles and tech industry focus on aging in place and fear. The hype capitalizes on the recent CES with a laundry list of tech offerings that could help with fears -- like sensors, medication management, motion sensors, and smart watches to mitigate fear of falling. The Tech Support Chasm – Tough to cross for older adults.

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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. As if that weren’t enough, a tech track at Argentum’s annual (now virtual) conference included a session on Voice First (with aRyan Elz and Nick Patel , sponsored by CDW Healthcare) in a long list of tech enablement session entries.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2022

This type of tech had obvious benefits, even then, but today, what was obvious then has become a crisis of care today. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , baby boomers , senior living. Remote monitoring products and services built with sensors have been around for decades. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

The articles and tech industry focus on aging in place and fear. It capitalizes on the recent CES with a laundry list of tech offerings that could help with fears -- like sensors, medication management, motion sensors and smart watches to mitigate fear of falling. The Tech Support Chasm – Tough to cross for older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

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. category tags: home health care , smart home , IoT and home monitoring , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology , AgeTech.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 11, 2023

Meanwhile, edge-based camera tech like KamiCare , video fall capture from SafelyYou , Wi-Fi sensing fall detection from Origin.ai , AI-enabled monitoring from Inspiren – competitors are coming from every direction. See future -- by 2030 all baby boomers will be 65+.

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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

JULY 20, 2022

The tech advances but the people don’t. category tags: assistive technologies , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , baby boomers , Television/Smart TV. Or the change to impenetrable touch screens on smartphones and tablets.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Another study noted that the average family caregiver is a baby boomer woman. These 2022 initiatives offer opportunities to tech firms that focus on older adults, collaborations like AARP and OATS , as well as the entrants in AARP's AgeTech Collaborative.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

Note the top trends that matter this Many changes underway in the enabling tech categories for older adults – including the importance of tech for home care agencies – not just the apps for the workers, but for care recipients, such as remote monitoring. Isn’t March a l-o-n-g month? So many weeks, so many blog posts to, uh, post.

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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. What a difference a decade makes.

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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. And maybe the big deal starts now – the oldest baby boomers turn 76, which should trigger even more investment in 2022 and beyond. The year 2021 was pivotal.

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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

MAY 26, 2022

Baby boomers are aging and want to stay in their homes as long as feasible. Tech adoption among older adults is clearly increasing. But what if tech adoption came from a sample size of 2.9 Good news -- seventy-six percent of the 65+ population as of 2020 has access to broadband -- and tech adoption has clearly risen since 2015.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In the time of CES 2022 – advice to tech firms about older adults. The Consumer Electronics Show was smaller in size, but big in tech futures. As 2022 begins, the oldest baby boomer turns 76. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

Tech adoption among the oldest has not kept pace with technology improvements. Medicare Advantage changes may revive tech-enabled home care services. category tags: baby boomers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Home Care , IoT and home monitoring , Voice Assistants/Smart Speakers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health.

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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 baby boomer generation’s later years will be unprecedented. Search for the word ‘pilot’ on this site. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Consider the Chicago Tribune article about tech for aging in place. 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. Context matters: consider the likely status of people in 10 years.

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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. As if that weren’t enough, a tech track at Argentum’s annual (now virtual) conference included a session on Voice First (with aRyan Elz and Nick Patel , sponsored by CDW Healthcare) in a long list of tech enablement session entries.

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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. Will these technologies move senior living from a food-and-furniture paradigm to AI-enabled tech service delivery?

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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. Learn more. Ten technology offerings for older adults from CES 2021. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Tech firms are trying to boost access to the internet and devices – will this become 2021 action priority for non-profits and government? Here are four blog posts from November: Filling in the Tech Basics. category tags: baby boomers , digital health , telehealth , social isolation , computers, internet and social networking.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 1, 2019

Consider the operating margin of 34% and the real cost – can tech help? The implementation of an ever-expanding panoply of high-tech solutions such as artificial intelligence, voice technology, smart phone apps, smart sensors, and telehealth can help improve quality of life, and care, while reducing costs.” Count on it.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Most because it was difficult to absorb and rationalize so much tech news, hype, booths and convention center halls at the Digital Health Summit at CES 2019 – where a step counter status update may have been the most satisfying experience of all at the end of the day. January 2019 was a l-o-o-o-n-g month. A few topics that stood out.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 3, 2018

There are plenty of click-bait websites topping the search list, like Holiday Tech Gift Ideas or the lengthy Amazon tech gift list or even a list described as The 7 Best Tech Gifts to Buy for Seniors -- really? category tags: cell phones, smartphones , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , baby boomers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

First a dabble with the now departed Wellcore in 2011 – clearly the time was not right – the oldest baby boomer turned 72 in 2018, but at 65 in 2010, consumers could not comprehend the utility of a wearable fall detector. category tags: cell phones, smartphones , Family caregivers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Read more here.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

Of course the aging of the baby boomers (oldest are age 73) is on the minds of lots of businesses and government groups, for various reasons. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , Family caregivers , hearing loss , home health care. Technology and aging R&D – who knew about this task force?

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