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Leave no trend behind – yet another PERS smartwatch ticks on

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Last January 2021, WaterStreet, a healthcare investment company, coughed up a mind-bending $100 million to Medical Guardian, a long time (2006) privately-held PERS provider, to ‘fund expansion.’ With deep pockets, Medical Guardian can afford to develop its own device – and maybe this one's the charm for current customers.

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From Medical Alert to RPM – old marketing and products are obsolete

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Except for the deep-pocketed Medical Guardian which bought in everywhere, these were all bracelets to help emergency workers determine health issue in an emergency. Maybe if they’re not Medical Guardian, which shows up regardless of phrasing , even when you click through the first result for the variant ‘I’ve Fallen and I can’t Get Up.’.

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Tech and the future of care work – five research midpoint observations

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Or oversight of a care recipient could depend on using one of multiple sensor-based offerings from firms like Medical Guardian or SafelyYou. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care , healthcare , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health Possibly in a robotic form, like ElliQ , or sensor-based like Caspar.ai

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Fall detection -- does the PERS industry detect market changes?

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Since then, Medical Guardian became a market leader ($100 million investment from WaterStreet ), with Florence Henderson as spokesperson and Ruth Bader Ginsberg as a customer. See latest report, The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 ] category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection

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Five pivotal posts from Aging and Health Technology Watch March 2022

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Last January 2021, WaterStreet, a healthcare investment company, coughed up a mind-bending $100 million to Medical Guardian, a long time (2006) privately-held PERS provider, to ‘fund expansion.’ category tags: hearables/hearing technology , Mobile PERS , IoT and home monitoring , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health.

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Six Aging and Health Blog Posts from the Prolific Month of June 2022

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Except for the deep-pocketed Medical Guardian which bought ads everywhere , these were all bracelets to help emergency workers determine a health issue. The next one, Medical alert systems (14K searches) turned up ads for multi-vendor sales sites with names like 10 best, 5 best in Florida, and look, there's Medical Guardian!

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A decade later -- Next Generation Response Systems have arrived

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Medical Guardian also informs that every 11 seconds, 1 in 4 Americans aged 65+ experience a fall-related injury. category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection , Remote monitoring , AI and machine learning On the LifeAlert website, the woman is still falling and can’t get up. Are we there yet? Is all of this good enough?

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