Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Today’s wearables market for older adults includes smart watches and necklaces, fall detection wearables (with or without watch faces) and related apps, fitness devices, smart clothing, hearables, dementia tracking, and health monitoring. category tags: wearables, smart watch , digital health , games, fun and fitness.

Digital Health 135

Digital Health 135

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That 33% of those aged 85+ have Alzheimer’s or dementia? The Nomo Smart Care Essential Care Kit creates simplified digital solutions to enable caregivers to stay connected and assist their loved ones with everyday general well-being, allowing for them to know more and worry less. Meanwhile, here are five points from September, 2023.

Health Technology 75

Health Technology Nursing Telehealth 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. And on 9/24 Amazon announced CareHub, a way to monitor family members from afar. But is telehealth viable for the oldest?

Health Technology 105

Health Technology Digital Health Telehealth Nursing 105

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). Read more. category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , smartphones, cellphones , social isolation August, so warm, so replete with nursing home doomsayers and endless scam calls.

Nursing 69

Nursing Medicare 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

According to eMarketer’s newest report Better Be Nice to the Boomers , the 55+ population specifically has increased its digital spending 47%. Consider what it meant for the elderly with dementia, for families cut off from in-person visits, and what the caregiving nightmare was like in nursing homes.

Remote care 120

Remote care Telehealth Patient Experience Nursing 120

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The growing cost of providing in-person care will be an impetus for delivering more care remotely, including digital health technologies for diagnosis and remote monitoring, the use of wearables like smart watches or other jewelry to sense a problem like a fall and alert others. (See Digital health. Social networks, Online Learning.

Nursing 109

Nursing Digital Health Health Data Health Technology 109

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

But it also became apparent that some older adults were shut out from these due to limitations in vision, hearing, dexterity, and even dementia. category tags: baby boomers , digital health , telehealth , social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. Read more. . .

Remote care 101

Remote care Digital Health Telehealth 101

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2018

Digital health tech for providers and consumers, current status is bleak. And the adoption of digital health by providers – 44 % non-adoption in hospitals. Now consider those older adults with dementia, rushed to an emergency room and note the quantified poorer care they are likely to receive. .

mHealth 67

mHealth Digital Health Interoperability Telehealth 67

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 10, 2019

Using Alexa, it bridges the digital divide for seniors, overcoming barriers associated with other technologies while enhancing their sense of connectedness and wellbeing. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection , dementia care, cognitive decline , smart home , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

HIPAA 106

HIPAA Nursing Health Data 106

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. And on 9/24 Amazon announced CareHub, a way to monitor family members from afar. But is telehealth viable for the oldest?

Health Technology 48

Health Technology Digital Health Telehealth Nursing 48

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. and Bret Kinsella , is heating up. Read more.

mHealth 77

mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 77

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy. Read more. . .

Connected Health 60

Connected Health Digital Health 60

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 29, 2020

These are compelling, but the overall story is about the oldest on the wrong side of the Digital Divide, which is notable and particularly pitiful in settings l ike nursing homes , Note in the Johns Hopkins Covid-19 guidance about nursing homes , at the very end, authors acknowledge the risk of social isolation and make a few (lame) recommendations.

Nursing 62

Nursing Telehealth Remote care 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

Trends are detected and displayed on a dashboard, allowing for pre-emptive predictions of health conditions such as urinary tract infections, dementia and disorders like sleep apnea and psychological ailments including loneliness." category tags: smart home , IoT and home monitoring , aging in place. Learn more at Vayyar HOME.

Health Data 164

Health Data Digital Health Telehealth 164

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

Using AI, the solution further provides comprehensive wellness monitoring to automatically detect physical and mental deterioration, as well as predict evolving disease conditions (such as depression, dementia and UTI) based on behavioral symptoms." Learn more at Kytera. MedWand™ fulfills the potential of telemedicine. Learn more at Zibrio.

mHealth 121

mHealth Digital Health Telemedicine Telehealth 121