Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 12, 2023

Sunrise Senior Living’s chatbot offers a list of choices -- ‘find care for myself’ or ‘browsing options for senior living’ -- all of which could lead to an answer that does not require a phone call or further searching. Carlton Senior Living’s chatbot named Ana offers a similar list of search options, including scheduling a visit.

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MAY 10, 2023

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. Lack of interfaces to senior and health care systems.

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JULY 27, 2022

There is a labor shortage everywhere -- ditto in senior care. We know that one of the biggest issues in senior living (and home care, nursing homes, home health care) today is a shortage of labor. Remember that memory care is a sub-category within both senior living (aka assisted living) and skilled nursing facilities (aka SNFs).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SkyPoint Cloud AI Platform for Senior Living. SkyPoint Cloud proudly launches the senior living industry’s first Enterprise AI SaaS product focused on enabling organizations to leverage generative AI to optimize efficiency and productivity. category tags: AI and machine learning , Scams -- all types , senior living , AgeTech

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Pressure is growing in senior living to ‘keep people well’ in conjunction with a higher level of acuity of care needs. Companies like Carlton Senior Living offload staff informational tasks to chatbots, freeing staff for other work. category tags: Home Care , home health care , senior living , AI and machine learning

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The federal “Money Follows the Person” was introduced in 2005 to enable seniors to avoid them and receive Medicaid-paid services. Or was it the senior living industry that seized their business? Seniors and families need them? category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , aging in place , seniors and aging policy

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

" RAZ Mobility is a provider of mobile assistive technology, released a major update to the RAZ Memory Cell Phone that adds video calling capability, and other features, that significantly enhance the device for both seniors and caregivers. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , AgeTech , smartphones, cellphones

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

Or that home care a parallel universe to senior living. Or they move loved ones to senior living. Senior living companies (and families) augment limited staff with home care workers. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , senior living , Family caregivers , AgeTech Learn more at care.ai

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

AI is more established in marketing , even in senior-related businesses. Botco’s chatbot technology has been deployed at Carlton Senior Living. Also, if you missed it, here is the 2023 Market Overview Technology for Aging category tags: AI and machine learning , Generative AI , healthcare , senior living

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

Use cases have proven valuable for seniors. The future: Broadband, voice, and AI are mission critical for senior living. The senior living industry is challenged in 2022 to ramp up occupancy back to its pre-pandemic levels. Today 95 million US adults have smart speakers and 85% of US adults own a smartphone.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

Perhaps the Medicare scam call reaches someone in a senior living community who is obviously Medicare-eligible. category tags: smartphones, cellphones , seniors and aging policy , Seniors Pick up, have a conversation, no matter with what or whom. Perhaps it doesn’t proceed to fraud, but it is fraudulent, nonetheless.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The cost of senior living care at $54,000/year over any length of time is staggering, pushing move-in ages out to 84. The move to senior living is a move of desperation for many families, given that their loved one is likely to have dementia and needs more care. What it means – a tech opportunity. million 27.2 million 33.3 million 10.8

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

They will have widespread use in independent and senior living, since many older adults will bring them along at move-in time. It’s not just seniors who need help. Cyber-Seniors trains young people to be technology tutors for older adults. Sensor technology shrinks – and changes form.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

(CareMerge is in the Argentum, Senior Living Supplier catalog). Caremerge Voice provides a new level of instant access to community information and concierge services that senior living communities and residents are going to love. Rendever Senior Living. Learn more at CareMerg e. CarePredict Pinpoint. Learn more at Netsmart.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

But ‘aging in place’ is still a challenge and maybe a pipe dream for seniors in their late 70’s or 80’s. That may work for the most well-to-do seniors. And competing for the same workers as senior living firms pay their CNAs. . Senior living – maybe the pitch is about providing care. Déjà vu all over again.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 9, 2021

Has the future arrived in the world of seniors, senior housing, home care? Seniors at any tech proficiency level can hear a demonstration of this – and be startled at what can be done without rising from a chair, fiddling with a mouse, or swiping a screen. Please add me to today’s trip” or “Could someone fix a light for me?”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The future of AI and older adults is looking increasingly positive, with the technology being used to improve the quality of life for seniors. AI is also being used to create smarter and more accessible homes, and to develop technology that can be used to help seniors with mobility and transportation." Okay, okay, so it’s a beginning.

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MAY 12, 2022

Certainly that must be what senior living residents and older adults living at home do, not to mention the of-course sizable tech staff working in senior living and elder care. Some senior living companies during Covid saw the need to help residents with their devices. Enter the tech concierge. Thoughts welcome.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

HomeEXCEPT. “ HomeEXCEPT is hardware and software for active seniors, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and researchers. The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Livindi. “ Livindi keeps families connected with LivindiPad, a tablet for seniors. The last was offered by a giant US network. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

What hasn’t changed much – tech deployment in senior care. According to the 2020 Senior Living, COVID-19 and Technology Survey and Report , over a third of communities reported having poor or nonexistent Wi-Fi and bandwidth capability." Given the staffing crisis in long-term care , maybe technology’s time has come. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

But they also have done more work on Amazon Hospitality in partnership with K4Connect (which has rolled out 10,000 Alexa devices to senior living communities). By 2018, it was obvious that this was a breakthrough for seniors , ending the tech requirement to tap, touch, pinch, swipe, zoom…and curse at computers and smartphones.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

It demands efficiencies and technologies that have continued to largely elude home care and senior living industries. But can AI really help with senior care work? In the meantime, why not ask ChatGPT – “What is the future of AI and senior care work?” Can use of AI help care organizations and their workers?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2024

With the boom in scam innovation , government initiatives and new tech emerges regularly to stop or eliminate scamming of seniors. category tags: Home Care , smart home , aging in place , AgeTech , baby boomers Insurers offer discounts for smart home and some Medicare Advantage plans cover devices for safety and wellness.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The solution offers a new option for senior living communities to improve safety and care while protecting privacy and simplifying daily life for residents and staff. By passively moni t oring movement patterns via thermal sensors, Butlr Care can alert caregivers when seniors need assistance.

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JUNE 10, 2020

But they also exposed gaps of capability in senior-focused communities. These issues will only be better understood as senior housing communities are surveyed, and it is possible to figure out what policy or business changes have made a difference. Nursing homes and senior living communities will all have Wi-Fi for residents.

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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. AI chatbots will be built into senior living concierge services. Training an AI chatbot on the various services and schedules offered by a senior living community will be required.

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MARCH 19, 2020

million in senior living communities, including nursing homes. Some senior living providers have been ahead of the game for some time with telehealth, like Asbury Communities and Holiday Retirement -- offering services for residents at times when physicians cannot be on site. This applies to caring for and treating the 2.5

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

But ‘aging in place’ is still a challenge and maybe a pipe dream for seniors in their late 70’s or 80’s. That may work for the most well-to-do seniors. And competing for the same workers as senior living firms pay their CNAs. . Senior living – maybe the pitch is about providing care. Déjà vu all over again.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This report, s with 30 senior executives across health, senior care, technology and policy, examines negative impact of the pandemic on seniors and the technology market that is attempting to provide solutions. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Look at the ten years or more between the first wave of useful sensor tech for seniors (2005 with GrandCare Systems ) until the newer collection of offerings. What technologies can help mitigate this growing labor crisis in the senior care (home care, home health care, senior living, long-term-care) services market?

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Senior living – unless a very expensive house is sold – is not within reach. category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living Housing alternatives (like cohousing or multi-generational housing) would be well publicized and on the way to broad adoption. In what year?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What technologies can help mitigate this growing labor crisis in the senior care (home care, home health care, senior living, long-term-care) services market? It continues to be a struggle to fully enable the senior care service industries with high-speed internet capability. AT THE EDGE: Alert without Wi-Fi. Stay tuned!].

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The death rates from Covid-19 (or with Covid-19) of seniors in nursing homes and assisted living were horrific on the one hand and daunting to prospective move-ins. million are aged 85+ -- not surprisingly the approximate move-in age to senior living – 1.4 Senior living occupancy dropped to just 79.5% in August 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

The government agency seems to have given up on improving the quality or affordability of dementia care in senior living or nursing homes. No way to share meals with others, access staff-run activities, and build on the expertise of caring for people with dementia that the senior-related industries already established? Just asking.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 16, 2022

The PHI analysis also looks at the demographics of aides who work in nursing homes, residential care (aka senior living) and home care – noting the biggest labor growth projection (and likely shortfall) in home care aides. category tags: Home Care , home health care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , tech-enabled home care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The numbers of care recipients in home care, senior living, and adult day services has likely crossed 5 million people by now. The number of home care providers is exploding due to demand, much of it from people who should be in senior living or nursing homes but they (or their families) are too stubborn to make the move.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2020

Then in April, Verizon does it again, launches a PERS, this time a smart watch offering, called the Care Smart Watch for seniors. That statement has no connection to today's Care Smart Watch for seniors. A care watch for ' Seniors' – sounds good – but what’s a senior? For older adults in need, they need to call someone.

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