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Older adults need vendor empathy to attain digital literacy

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Tap this on an iPad and you will see a screen that demonstrates ‘Collections’. See ‘Reduce background noise.’ That’s fun: Open Control Center, tap Mic Mode, then tap Voice Isolation to make sure your voice comes through loud and clear. Do the companies see ‘old people’ as ‘other, not like them?’ See vendor empathy.

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Older Adults will benefit from AI -- sooner rather than later

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The following domains will add AI (via voice or other interaction modes) to services, including: Health management of self-care, enabling conversational access. See the new Report The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 Your additional examples welcome! SafelyYou’s brief video-based alerts notice unwitnessed falls.

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Insights from 2023 Market Overview Technology for Aging

Aging in Place Technology Watch

When an 88-year-old neighbor is filming fireworks with his smartphone, it is easy to see that times have changed. On the flip side, tech innovators should offer their own Accessibility options or Easy Mode – defaults or a quick set of options that can be expanded, or set up through remote configuration by family for in-home tech. .

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7 Key Trends to Watch from Aging and Health Technology Watch

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia. All tech innovators should offer an “easy mode” like Samsung's — a quick start of a limited basic set of options that can be expanded or remotely configured by family or in-home techs. . Disruptions in the hearing technology market will persist.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. and Seeing is Believing – Inside the World’s Biggest Hospital), among other themes. In the U.S., we are in a place where some states have privacy protections for their health citizens, and most still do not.

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Did you miss one? Check out September’s Aging & Health Tech blog posts

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Tap this on an iPad and you will see a screen that demonstrates ‘Collections’. See ‘Reduce background noise.’ That’s fun: Open Control Center, tap Mic Mode, then tap Voice Isolation to make sure your voice comes through loud and clear. Older adults need vendor empathy to attain digital literacy. Oops, not supported by all apps.

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Should Physicians Give Their Cell Phone Number to Patients?

33 Charts - Digital Health

At a moment’s notice I can see what’s going on. I’m just in that mode of doing and documenting. Another case is the critical MRI at the end of the day when I’m playing phone tag with a family. Despite the fantasy that our doctors remember everything about us, I don’t remember everything about my patients. It’s ‘our weekend.’

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