Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For older adults, that included the following potentially obsolete categories: Medical alert devices (fall detectors, communicators, etc.), Wi-Fi Enabled Fall Detection – and other room-smart changes. Mrs. Smith falls all the time, maybe an intervention in advance of a fall?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Now called HomeSafe, the pendant-wearer could either use a landline phone connection or a cellular connection – but note the rapid transition to cell-phone only households – including for older adults – and the prediction that landlines will be fully obsolete by 2025. This was an incentive for Philips and others to attempt a mobile offering.

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

Predictive analytics will be targeted and actionable. And moving forward, who is likely to fall, in senior living, but also in home health and private duty home care settings. . category tags: IoT and home monitoring , digital health , fall prevention, fall detection.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This is somewhat surprising, given the angst in business and market predictions about the aging of the US population and the potential doom that it portends. million category tags: AgeTech , senior living , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , seniors and aging policy Nor can Google. But anyway, the answer is buried in Census tables.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

It can help in diagnosing and monitoring chronic conditions, predicting health risks, and suggesting appropriate interventions. Fall detection and prevention: AI algorithms can analyze video feeds from cameras placed in seniors' homes to detect falls or other accidents.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

But the tech has changed – now sensors offer non-wearable, Wi-Fi and room-based fall detection (even in a steam shower). category tags: AgeTech , AI and machine learning , home health care , IoT and home monitoring. Sensor technology failed to meet its promise a decade ago. View the full 2023 Market Overview Technology for Aging. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 6, 2022

Changes like these and others in this space will be addressed in a new report launching this month: "The Future of Sensors and Predictive Analytics for Older Adults." The fall video clips are blurred to protect privacy and can be reviewed to allow a post-fall evaluation. The process takes less than two minutes. Meet Caregivers.

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JUNE 6, 2023

A Decade Later: The more things change in the PERS/medical alert industry… Long ago (10 years, to be exact), a survey report plus future market predictions was published. On the LifeAlert website, the woman is still falling and can’t get up. category tags: AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , Mobile PERS

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Healthcare professionals agree that RPM use is expanding and predict it will continue. . Responding to falls with emergency response seems like a logical addition of care for individuals already being monitored for chronic conditions. . category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Mobile PERS.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Pattern analysis, dashboards, and predictive analytics have permeated tech innovation for years, including healthcare, but have been slow to enter the world of caregiving for older adults. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , AI , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Mobile PERS. Voice first technology – in everything.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

For the market of technology for older adults, it offered a smartwatch with built-in fall detection and other numerous health features, which it continues to introduce. The data collected can be used for personalization, upselling new products or services, and has the potential for predicting future behaviors or track changes over time.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 24, 2019

The more thin gs change… Who would have thought that fall detection would be added to a hearing aid ? Or that Apple would produce a watch with built-in fall detection, automatically activated for the 65+ ? Well, by itself, “fall detection” is not yet a market category hit. So where are we today? AppleWatch. "If MobileHelp.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

According to predictions, the ratio of available caregivers to potential care recipients is going to worsen. These include making greater use of sensors in the home (the so-called Internet of Things) to detect issues with gait and falls. Fall prevention. Predictive analytics. See Figure 2 Centenarian Morning in the Life).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

But the tech has changed – now non-wearable and radar-based fall detection (even in a steam shower), tiny paper sensors in a mat , wearables that can predict the onset of stroke , ones that feature biometrics, including blood pressure , and even Air Tags or Smart Tags that can pinpoint the location of a phone (or suitcase) left behind.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Within five years, predictive, proactive and adaptive smart home solutions that support health and wellbeing, comfort and safety, and engagement and entertainment will emerge to meet the needs of older adults, including subscription-based services that are integrated with wearables. The Future of Smart Homes and Older Adults 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It’s a given that hearing loss interferes with communication – which itself is a risk for social isolation – as well as fall risk and dementia. According to Carole Rogin , one of the MarkeTrak10 authors, soon all hearing aids will have built in fall detection and predictive analytics.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Now we must contemplate the fall season of tradeshows and events, rev up anticipation for impending technology announcements, consider that technology anti-trust investigations are launching in multiple states. 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

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Getting assistance matters: Help you get help if you fall. Fall detection has been a feature of wearable Personal Emergency Response Pendants (or Medical Alerts) for the past decade. These devices have a built-in accelerometer and gyroscope which are designed to be activated if you fall.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

New startups are launching in home monitoring and fall detection – incorporating AI/video images , sensors, radar, motion and predictive analytics. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , PERS , social media , cell phones, smartphones. And optimism about growth, if the CTA 2019 Active Aging forecast of $29.8

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2018

Behavior monitoring for aging-at-home, allowing better care services, improved emergency detection and predictive analytics. A sleeve that uses electrical stimulation to regenerate muscles and prevent falls for the elderly. The winning team will go on to the AARP Innovation Pitch Event in Washington, DC, in October of 2018.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

Understanding the relationship between existing measures of financial function with other function – computer use, driving, cell phone use, and mobility to predict decline in financial capacity – and before assets were lost. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , Family caregivers , hearing loss , home health care. User adoption.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2018

A medical alert wristband that notifies family and friends automatically via an easy-to-use smartphone app if your loved one falls. category tags: wearables, smart watch , Mobile PERS , voice/AI technology , IoT and home monitoring , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Voice First. Learn more at UnaliWear. Learn more at Livpact. MyNotifi. "A

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 9, 2018

Technology design for all -- predicted in 2011, in-market in 2018. A long time ago (7 years this month) in a tech world far, far away, a report sponsored by then-AARP executive Jody Holtzman predicted that technology change would deliver a new user experience. Learn more. Learn more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The report provides predictions about key technology trends for 2018 and beyond. 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.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 31, 2018

Up next, predicting life-threatening falls, perhaps as an alternative to Philips CareSage or BioSensics Frailty Meter , for example. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging , smart home , Voice First/AI technology. from Walmart. Was that accidental innovation that benefits older adults?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

Finally, the pace of tech improvement is notable – lower cost and improved utility of on body (or in-room) sensors, predictive analytics, and device integration – with smartphones, health systems, and broader solution sets. Beyond the fall detection, the system’s updates also include a Google-powered virtual assistant.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 30, 2019

Their award-winning emotion recognition and behavioral prediction analytics technology utilize cognitive modeling and advanced machine learning algorithms to provide enriched conversational insights for interaction with voice assistants, chatbots, robotic virtual assistants, social healthcare robotics and mobile voice assistants."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Scaring seniors – the hyping of falls, fraud, and weather. Although the cartoonist did not intend it, that 1993 New Yorker cartoon predicted the future and so it came to pass – and then some. category tags: fraud protection , baby boomers , Seniors , computers, internet and social networking. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Many will need to be monitored in their home for chronic diseases and in-home risk of falling – Amazon noticed with Alexa Together – Verizon noticed with its Care Smart Watch. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , computers, broadband, and social networking , baby boomers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

The firm’s RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) platform is designed for detecting gestures that enable “passive monitoring of elderly individuals' ADLs (Activities of Daily Living), such as sleeping, drinking, walking and medication intake, as well as real time alerting of falling and wandering.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The AI role in deriving predictive analytics from accumulated data is just beginning to reveal its utility. . CarePredict. " We are focused on identifying patterns in the daily lives of seniors that can predict declines in their health and enable early intervention. We speak, therefore we are. Learn more. Netherlands-based Envision.ai

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

These may signal not only the next generation of in-home monitoring, but also the next generation of predictive analytics used to help older adults stay longer at home and/or out of the hospital. Vayyar HOME detects falls and can call for help in an emergency. Learn more at Caregiver Smart Solutions. Forma SafeHome. Vayyar HOME.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 11, 2023

provides measurement-based fall prevention. Originally invented for astronauts, ZIBRIO technology provides an easy way to measure weight, balance and fall risk in 60 seconds. category tags: robotics , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living , IoT and home monitoring. All you do is stand as still as you can.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“Even before SARS CoV-2, many operational leaders could intuitively see the utility of telehealth during a pandemic or disaster, but I don’t think anyone predicted the scale of growth we saw in March,” he observed. “For providers, this manifested as a loss of control.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

Through cameras installed inside the household, the solution can detect the motions and postures of beloved family members with AI and release warning messages at the moment of danger, such as falling, sitting too long, leaving home without a clear reason, etc. Essence Group Fall Detector Radar. Not yet available. Not yet available.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

CarePredict was the first-to-market to use machine learning, smart wearables, and unique kinematics to quantify daily activities performed by older adults and predict health conditions including increased fall risks, depression and urinary tract infections (UTIs.) Learn more at Care Predict. Learn more at Essence.

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