Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

User experience non-design – it’s not just tech devices – consider the stove’s cockpit.’ Studying the screen plus button choices on a new Microwave, one wonders who tested this interface? Did they really think that the combinations were self-explanatory and intuitive ?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

For instance, a new open-source app from Massachusetts Institute of Technology notifies users if someone they have been in close contact with has tested positive so they can self-isolate. There are various digital solutions being developed and used for this purpose around the world.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2018

Experts also see the trend in self-care for all types of health concerns now includes hearing loss. Training people on tactics after self-administered hearing tests. Anyone can give self-testing a try in the privacy of their own home. Self-care smartphone apps.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2024

Studying the screen plus button choices on a new Microwave, one wonders who tested this interface? Did they really think that the combinations were self-explanatory and intuitive ? Read more. category tags: smartphones, cellphones , vehicle/transportation technology-services , AgeTech

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

Perhaps there is an ‘ empathy gap ’ with self-service kiosks? Today, many patients are signing onto the portal to view their test results. Watch the customers at a bakery avoid the two kiosks to wait to place their orders with a server. Listen to the manager at a McDonald’s describe his distaste for the kiosk menu process.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 1, 2019

2018 was a big year for disruption in the hearing technology sector following a big change in regulatory terminology at the FDA and a win for consumers who may prefer self-service hearing tests, self-fitting of lower priced hearing aids, and self-service adjustments. Hearing technology got an upgrade and a lower price.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

But new market entrants should find local partners to test product effectiveness before going national. But scams targeting the elderly have ballooned to a cost $3 billion annually , and that includes only those that are self-reported. Continuous phone and watch patches should not be expected and indicate inadequate testing.

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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 20, 2016

The teenage years can be a tough time for blood sugar control, as parents must slowly cede control of blood sugar testing to teens, who may or may not want the responsibility. Many parents are looking for ways to get teen offspring to take diabetes self-care seriously. The test offered $.10 tests per day to 4.9

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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 20, 2016

The teenage years can be a tough time for blood sugar control, as parents must slowly cede control of blood sugar testing to teens, who may or may not want the responsibility. Many parents are looking for ways to get teen offspring to take diabetes self-care seriously. The test offered $.10 tests per day to 4.9

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

Inefficiencies of Digital Solutions: Self-service digital solutions play a key role in shifting the workload away from customer care departments, to help customers quickly solve their problems. Test to see if your solution works quickly; if so, scale and build momentum for other initiatives.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 30, 2018

We saw a self-driving car maneuver in traffic in Mountain View, CA. There it went – a real-life videogame --with a driverless vehicle from one of the 19 or more self-driving car companies in Mountain View. Consider the perfect ‘test bed’ of Mountain View – no bad weather, no steep hills, no rotaries or trucks. …Or

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

With all the publicity about terrible conditions in the nation’s nursing homes, states and the federal government are galvanized into some self-protective and resident-protective actions. Add to that, state-by-state, the National Guard is being brought in to disinfect nursing homes or assist with Covid-19 testing. Most important?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2018

Too much road noise, no self-driving information. So how safe are self-driving cars for us, those pesky consumers who are also the victims of this tech for tech's sake ? We may have online access to our tests results – but only those that are from the same system. Ask yourself – how would you know?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

ixlayer launched self-testing kits for Vitamin D, Lyme disease, sexually-transmitted infections, and thyroid function. DoseData released an RFID-tagged drug database to help pharma companies monitor drug supplies within hospital inventory systems.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 21, 2018

It’s the day after the self-driving car killed a pedestrian. million miles of testing, one year ago was the first time the car had been at fault when it crashed with a bus. What problems are self-driving cars supposed to address? When trucks are self-driving, where do those drivers go ? Cars are kept for 11.6

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2018

They may not be interested in being the first to test a new gadget or service. Self-driving cars – Not yet for older adults or anyone else. What problems are self-driving cars supposed to address? category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , aging in place. Maybe they prefer feature phones ( 450 million shipped in 2017

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If their loved one is hesitant, a self-assessment could be used to encourage a visit to a professional. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline. A family member may say or forget things that make them wonder if it’s dementia or just a normal part of aging. Safe Wandering. Adult day centers. Centers trained in dementia care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2018

All four of these posts are about our technology life, as shoppers in stores as recently as July 1 , our experience with user interfaces that are designed for none , catching up on the hype/hope/fading hope about self-driving cars , and finally, the only thing that can terrorize a company the size of Walmart – Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 30, 2018

Consider that a British consortium is testing whether a smart phone app that launches several times per day and asks how a person is doing. None of the tech referencing dementia care tackles the disorientation, wandering and self-care decline of actual dementia. Keeping in touch – smart phones and tablets.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

Advances are already underway to improve the self-service capabilities for testing hearing , but not to simulate restaurant noise or demonstrate how their specific loss degrades clarity in those environments. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , Family caregivers , hearing loss , home health care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

New entrants should first form local partnerships to test communication and effectiveness before going national. Scams targeting the elderly have ballooned to a cost $3 billion annually , and that includes only those that are self-reported. category tags: CES 2022 , smartphones , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Her team tested a new type of infrared laser on healthy volunteers to get their blood sugar readings before and after they ate 20 jellybeans; they also tested the volunteers with old-fashioned bloodletting, according to Medical News Today.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 17, 2019

Here’s a test. Too often market research can be self-fulfilling prophecy. But senior-friendly design and testing of general market consumer products (not just tech) is under the radar, if it is happening at all. category tags: Aging technology , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , smartphones, cell phones.

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Medicine and Technology

JULY 23, 2013

I've also tested the BodyMedia FIT armband, the Nike+ FuelBand, and other self-tracking fitness gadgets/pedometers. This is one of the newest self-tracking gadgets to hit the market. Set your "activity tag" for swimming and tap your Shine 3 times. You can also set your activity tag to cycling if you're a biker.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Self-testing websites, OTC hearing aids, amplifiers/hearables. category tags: baby boomers , Seniors , aging in place. More effective chronic disease management; alerting care providers; Dementia care. Engagement, cognitive, wander management wearables. Improved cognitive function, lower risk of injury to wanderers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

They would get frustrated with connectivity issues, inputting information and testing the devices. “I can now self-schedule, and see when the patient has checked in, and when they’re ready and waiting for me,” she said. CareMount also experienced some difficulties with app access from an audio/visual perspective.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 20, 2020

Amid the outcry, the negative comments about bad management, bad physical design of the buildings, bad for-profit ownership, bad Covid-19 testing, etc., When the customer does not advocate for self. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Why are people in nursing homes?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 20, 2020

Amid the outcry, the negative comments about bad management, bad physical design of the buildings, bad for-profit ownership, bad Covid-19 testing, etc., When the customer does not advocate for self. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Why are people in nursing homes?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

Self-service increasingly matters in unexpected health categories. category tags: hearing loss , vision and vision technology , CES 2019 , PERS , Mobile PERS , Family caregivers. As with nearly every ‘service’, we want to serve ourselves, no matter what. Learn more at Essence. EyeQue Vision Tracker. Learn more at Widex.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In addition, the company recently launched a COVID-19 monitoring system to support the management of patients with related symptoms or who have tested positive for COVID-19 and are self-quarantining at home with mild symptoms. In addition, the MiHealth app allows scheduled and real-time patient self-assessment questions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

Self-service increasingly matters in unexpected health categories. category tags: hearing loss , vision and vision technology , CES 2019 , PERS , Mobile PERS , Family caregivers. As with nearly every ‘service’, we want to serve ourselves, no matter what. Learn more at Essence. EyeQue Vision Tracker. Learn more at Widex.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 26, 2020

Audio personalization technology that includes a self-test protocol available on the user’s mobile device (Android or iOS) and conducted via headphones. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Learn more at TuneFork.

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