Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 10, 2023

From the findings; One of the media-fueled risks today with the plethora of AI-related hype is the tendency to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes, reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. Escalating the risk of older adult scams.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 27, 2022

We know that the senior living industry has undergone great change over the past few years as a result of acquisitions and consolidation – both in the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Is it isolated to a demo of VR here, a few robots there, a free pilot of voice tech for those with high enough speeds to benefit?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

Other counties with serious caregiving labor shortages see the possibilities – and if anything the US senior care industry is late to the party. Remember when voice first technology became ‘voice’. AI-powered digital companions and training tools are evolving. We take all this AI for granted.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The availability of a growing trove of data about our behavior has enabled the ever-smarter world of voice interactions and sensors. Today, 30% of the PERS industry is mobile, validating the emergence of wearables other than pendants to take out and about. Voice first technology – in everything.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

But this is January, 2021, in the time of Covid-19 and the time of the all digital Consumer Electronics Show -- this time with at least 70,000 online attendees from around the world and the tech industry -- and so new companies are surfacing with technologies that will generate interest and even excitement during 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

That’s fun: Open Control Center, tap Mic Mode, then tap Voice Isolation to make sure your voice comes through loud and clear. Pause and consider – is the tech industry ageist ? category tags: Aging, ageism , AgeTech , smartphones , wearables, smartwatch , tablets. More young folk. See ‘Reduce background noise.’

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. The PERS industry also sees an opportunity to expand their offerings. Consider that the RPM/PERS combination creates a Medicare reimbursement growth trajectory for the PERS industry. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Mobile PERS.

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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 a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. Not from any news article other than PERS Insider , a newly created newsletter for those who track the medical alert industry. How do I know this?

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

They are never seen in the same room at the same time, working as “Clark Kent and Superman” – tag-teaming with love, resilience, and faith. [To I live this life and people in the health care industry – payors, policymakers, suppliers, providers – need to know that story from the inside.”.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

The home care industry is enormously challenged today -- soaring demand , labor shortages and worker (and client) retention challenges. Voice assistants made device hardware actually seem smart. See new report The State of Voice-AI and Older Adults 2022 ]. Falling short on solving the care crisis.

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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. category tags: Conversational and generative AI , healthcare , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health But the benefits of AI innovations are nonetheless multiplying.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And the shortage of labor in the care industries put a spotlight on the gaps in care that AI tech can help close. category tags: caregivers , Home Care , senior living , AgeTech The monumental investment that swept AI and media visibility underscored how AI could help older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 17, 2022

Ava uses captions to live transcribe voice to text to provide accessibility for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing (HoH). R eproduces the voice of the person talking to you during one-to-one conversations, but louder and clearer, while simultaneously reducing background noise, such as music, hubbub, reverberation, and other sounds.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a given -- Voice First will be even more pervasive in 2020. The rapid growth of the market for voice-enabled technologies has been a phenomenon within the past two years that can understand spoken requests and commands, answer questions, and even offer scheduled alerts. Why tackle the topic of voice, health, and well-being?

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The proprietary ultra-security service provides more layers of security than anyone else in the industry. HandsFree Health. “ HandsFree Health combines WellBe's unique virtual assistant with capabilities from industry-leading health and technology companies including Microsoft, Healthwise, Cerner, and PokitDot. Learn more at Clocr.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 13, 2023

Several times in the past decade, interviews were conducted with experts that lead to some reports about the home care industry. An industry facing high turnover and instability may have served as a catalyst for $200 million of VC investment in 2016 alone. An optimistic view of home care’s future as seen from 2012.

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Nursing 130

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2023

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. And by 2022, multiple wall-mounted, room-based fall detection devices were available in smart homes , accessible by voice. Are we there yet? Is all of this good enough?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

This is the breakthrough push that the healthcare industry -- notably providers – needed to accelerate telehealth adoption. category tags: mHealth-Telehealth-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , healthcare. So telehealth services will broadly expand during this coronavirus calamity. The key phrase in this?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 14, 2019

As they do so, they will force industries to change offerings – and drive considerable change in technology that underpins their lives. category tags: baby boomers , senior living , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. That onslaught, now at 52 million, bears repeating.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

And for much of the industry, turnover of 45-66% is typical and the cost to replace is $2200. category tags: baby boomers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Home Care , IoT and home monitoring , Voice Assistants/Smart Speakers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. million unfilled jobs by 2026.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 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. category tags: Family caregivers , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AI and machine learning , AgeTech Five innovations to benefit older adults and their care providers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But this is January, 2021, in the time of Covid-19 and the time of the all-digital Consumer Electronics Show -- this time with at least 70,000 online attendees from around the world and the tech industry -- and so new companies are surfacing with technologies that will generate interest and even excitement during 2021. Learn more. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Who is NOT going to enable a voice first interface? If the slow-to-change senior living industry sees the opportunity to improve service and operations, what is NOT possible? category tags: Voice First/AI technology , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Seniors. Whew, that's a relief. That answer is simple.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 21, 2023 News Oracle Cerner adds generative AI to its EHR platforms The Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant tool can also respond to conversational voice prompts from. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 20, 2021

It's 100% voice activated and offers 2 way calling and text messages. ITRI Dual Arm Robot. " The Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan developed a Dual Arm Robot System (DARS) that can perform different tasks for humans without specific tools. Seniors communicate directly with Cutii. Learn more at Cutii. experience."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 2, 2020

This is the same senior living industry that was s-l-o-w-l-y implementing high speed connections and resident Wi-Fi for many years. category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health , senior living , social isolation , SNF. Remote engagement technology is suddenly a must-have in senior living. But nursing homes, specifically?

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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.” Wade last year.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

More from August 2020: Voice tech is pervasive – for some, but hardware market adoption may be slowing. The last published eMarketer survey in 2019 sized the software voice assistant market (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa et al.) The irreversible telehealth boom may be slowing and yet, older adults may be unable to benefit. OPINION ON.

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Remote care Telehealth 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The boomer-and-beyond market has caught the eye of the tech industry. As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. Not from any news article other than PERS Insider , a newly created newsletter for those who track the medical alert industry. How do I know this?

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Health Technology Digital Health Telehealth Nursing 48

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

November was an interesting month in the technology industry. AI is a fundamental machine-learning element in voice technology , which is here to stay, despite the noisy racket about Amazon. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , SNF , seniors and aging policy , AI and machine learning.

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Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Voice First -- The year began and ended with speaking. Happy New Year – and onward to 2020, the publication of the now-completed Voice, Health and Wellbeing 2020 on Monday, January 6 th , and so many more (and counted) CES steps -- more wearables, virtual experiences, smart and not-so-smart speakers. And shouting. See you there!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 20, 2020

Industry analysts wear many hats, but the primary role is to understand and communicate about a particular category market of companies/players. PR firms need to understand the industry they are working with, even when new, including any analyst publications about their clients. OPINION ON. OPINION OFF. .

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Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

And last, but not least, the worsening staffing shortage, noted for years throughout the older adult service industry, is now a full-blown crisis. So the newly developed one has more features – including step-counting, a voice-assist charge warning, and communication (from the watch) with a care circle.

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Health Technology Telehealth Nursing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Honor bought Home Instead – which should result in more technology used in the home care industry -- and soon, hopefully, for an industry suffering from a severe labor shortage. category tags: Home Care , smart home , wearables, smart watch , Mobile PERS.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

mcare’s approach will change how the industry measures medication adherence." OrbitaAssist is an award-winning, voice-enabled, AI-driven bedside virtual health assistant. category tags: healthcare , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , home health care. Learn more at ?mcare. Orbita Assist. Learn more at OrbitaAssist. .

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Nursing 124

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

As an analyst migrating from the IT industry , it was startling how limited the capabilities of the offerings Presto the Printing Mailbox (used, eBay), Celery (printing mailbox – gone), Mailbug (device to send-receive email – still on Amazon ), and Big Screen Live (browser for seniors - gone). Compare to today. billion by 2022 rings true.

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Telehealth 108

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 1, 2019

The report is from NIC – the National Investment Center that provides research to the senior living industry. There are some problems with this study’s message to the industry. This industry has been a real estate investment play from the very beginning. category tags: senior living , baby boomers. Count on it.

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