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With Fewer Family Caregivers, What’s the (Tech-Enabled) Plan?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider doctors , especially in rural areas, and the investment in digital health , including remote diagnostics and consultations with specialists. Yet in personal care delivery -- whether in senior living, home care, home healthcare – the only idea, grasped like an out-of-reach straw, has been an in-home robot.

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CES 2020: Ten Intriguing New Technologies for Older Adults    

Aging in Place Technology Watch

What has 170,000 attendees, long lines, baffling arrangements of booth numbers across multiple, gigantic locations and more robots than you can shake a motion sensor at? Created by physicians and medical device engineers, MedWand houses multiple diagnostic tools in a single, easy-to-use handheld device. That was CES 2020.

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