Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Rather, it suggested that while form factors are changing (from pendant to smart watch to home sensor technology), the shortage of labor in the caregiving market means that tech to help 66 million caregivers matters more than ever. category tags: AgeTech , computers, broadband, and social networking , hearables , smartphones.

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MARCH 12, 2022

A striking shift from care in faci lities and hospitals to care in the home. . In-home care, home health care , remote patient monitoring (RPM) , fall detection , and other services that help older adults age in their homes are critical. Smart displays and voice-first interfaces will be ubiquitous.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But only 14% of Americans can afford long-term care in the home. And if they could afford it, only 4% of their homes are aging-ready. Nor are they telehealth-ready – where 36% of Americans do not have high-speed internet in the home. Or the tech-powering of home health and home care agencies (soon?) In what year?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Having a smart TV plus sound bar, streaming media player or variants, may have shrunk the number of devices in the basket. With the appropriate setup on a selected platform , it is feasible to have a mostly hands-free life with devices in the home – lights, temperature, speaker volume and more. Do consumers want that?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2024

And it is not just tech – consider the impenetrable smart TV interface, the microwave button-display combination, the new car that lacks readable warning lights and other user interface issues. Certainly access has improved: Ninety-five percent of Americans use the Internet and more than 80% have broadband at home. So that’s good.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

That committing to aging independently at home is a permanent decision. Or that home care a parallel universe to senior living. Or that workers in each of those do not also find work in nursing homes. Reality check: Family caregivers may hire home care services. Or they move loved ones to senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Approximately half of the older adult population has a smart TV – a common platforms used to stream Internet services without an associated specialty box like Apple TV , Roku or Chromecast. Uniper Care is a leading provider of age-at-home, TV-based and mobile-based solution for care delivery and social engagement. UniperCare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The opportunity for embedded and AI-enabled sensors in smart clothing. The growth of the sensor market has created an opportunity for more focus on smart clothing, which has been around a long time, including for use in dementia care , but may have its greatest utility ahead. Learn more. Myant Health. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

The platform allows businesses to create and launch a smart chatbot that can answer hundreds of potential questions in a fraction of the time compared to what was previously possible. Learn more at Essence Smart Care. integrates ChatGPT into its care app. "

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Note that falls can be detected in a home without a wearable – via a wall-mounted device or through in-home Wi-Fi. It’s care circle could be modeled after the original OneClick.chat – video chat for solo agers to converse with others while dining alone at home. Up ahead -- CES 2023. Check it out !].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. When a potential issue is identified, Livindi alerts caregivers on their smart phones. Verizon Care Smart Watch. Care Smart comes with a number of pre-loaded messages making it easier than ever for seniors to respond to text messages. Learn more. Learn m ore.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

M anufacturer of AI-driven behavioral health coach and wearable electroceutical device created to dock with smart clothing for the home-based and remote treatment of sports injuries, chronic illness & chronic pain. In 2023, the company's first international destination will be the United States, a country with a mature population."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Perhaps it will be in a home that needs ‘ age-proofing’ a large house with stairs, no nearby relatives and no first-floor bedroom. They have high hopes about AgeTech -- how it will help them stay in their homes. category tags: aging in place , AgeTech , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Among the many types and features of sensors, here are five offerings, all info from the companies: PeoplePower. " People Power’s solution leverages passive in-home sensors similar to those found in a security system and does not require cameras or wearables. Kalogon's Smart Cushion. Learn more. Labrador Systems. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2023

Here are four categories of AI for older adults – all discussed in the upcoming report, The Future of AI and Older Adults , to be published the week of May 15: AI in home and home health care. With the rise of hospital-at-home programs , you guessed it, more will be AI-enabled. AI in the home ‘wellbeing’ infrastructure.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

In-home healthcare services will persist and expand. Telehealth services will remain to replace or supplement in person visits likely throughout 2022, and Dispatch Health’s in-home urgent care service is now available nationwide. Smart displays and voice first interfaces will be ubiquitous.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The chances are good that their family member can remain at home through early stages, even continuing to live alone Even after a diagnosis, they'll continue to wonder whether it really is dementia and look for another test they can do at home. Smart doorbells. Smart thermostats. Smart Speakers. Home safety.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 18, 2020

It is encouraging to see this sheer quantity of free offerings , accelerated interest in telehealth , and other new innovations in smart homes, healthcare and robotics that have emerged in the past few months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Caspar Smart homes. Here are just five focused on older adults: Megilla. NurseCaller.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Smart home devices are dumb about tech support. The future of the smart home and older adult users has not quite arrived. And for sure, the pandemic institutionalized the role of in-home telehealth, with CMS reimbursement presumed to become permanent , or at least regularly renewed.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 23, 2022

Yet consider the OATS/AARP 22 million of the 65+ that lack home broadband (derived from the Census)? Perhaps you know which homes have broadband already – but do you know what technology they already have ( computers, laptops, smartphones, smart speakers , smart TVs )? Pew’s 25% of the 65+ that don’t go online ?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2022

The data showing that ‘no one in the home is using the Internet’ is just as striking. In 27% of US households in 2015, no one was using the Internet at home. In 2015, 42% of the 65+ households had no Internet use at home. category tags: wearables, smart watch , smartphones , computers, broadband, and social networking.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Fairly new at the time, a few senior living organizations embraced it for its home automation potential, possibility of concierge services -- turn on the lights! The generally accepted view was that this technology was going to be “Easy, Cheap, Useful, Smart, and Connected (home automation that just works).” Raise the blinds!

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. Health is made as much outside of medical care providers’ sites as it is at home, at work, at play, at school. and Seeing is Believing – Inside the World’s Biggest Hospital), among other themes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring? Both types of monitoring are increasingly likely to be found by home care professionals entering a new care recipient’s home. But home care agencies can offer private pay RPM services. Passive activity monitoring assists with safety and wellbeing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

The entrants that can help older adults fit into categories like: Smart displays, voice first interfaces will be ubiquitous. Voice interfaces will be expected in smart displays and will be added to every feasible device (and new car) and gain widespread use in independent and senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

The news articles pile up – assisted living and nursing home staffing shortages ; stranding older adults without home health care ; keeping patients in hospitals longer because of lack of care; nursing home staffing crisis ; Medicaid paying family members to provide care , low wages and low unemployment worsen care situation , and on and on.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

fire alarms, some smart watches, E-readers, and GPS trackers. Was this an opportunity to switch to a smart(er) phone? Wi-Fi Enabled Fall Detection – and other room-smart changes. This could be an enabler for differentiating behaviors among users in senior housing, hospitals and nursing homes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. Home care vs. assisted living – the demand is for home care. Hospitals continue to close , especially in rural areas. Acute care delivery at home for Medicare recipients has been endorsed by the American Hospital Association – and bills supporting it may pass.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

million live in nursing homes – where the most common condition is dementia. So that means that everyone else is still in their own home or living with a family member. Those that don’t make the move depend on families and home care, another increasingly scarce and expensive option. million 27.2 million 33.3 million 75+ 25.7

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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. Lowe’s prioritized helping older adults and partnered with AARP , which should help older adults benefit from smart homes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Or the not-so-smart thermostat with well-hidden controls. We can speak to the Apple TV, the car radio, a smart watch and lock the front door. category tags: Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , vehicle/transportation technology-services , smart home. Apparently not, or they hand-pick the testers from their own team.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The promoters of the standard, intended to make the vision of the smart home, with easily connected devices, a reality. Will that make it easier to use sensors, and therefore make it more appealing? Or that home care organizations could continue to turn down contracts due to lack of workers to fill them.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

These life-long treatments deliver impressive clinical outcomes but come with a high price tag, putting employers and healthcare insurers under pressure. But with such a high price point, employers are in need of smart solutions to manage costs and the expectations of employees.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

LeadingAge) "EchoCare, founded in 2015, has developed the Elderly Care Home Observer (ECHO) system, a unique sensing system for the care of the elderly during their stay at home. Remote Home Check. Other smart pill dispensers and mobile compliance apps depend on self-reporting rather than direct observation. ?mcare’s

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

The hype capitalizes on the recent CES with a laundry list of tech offerings that could help with fears -- like sensors, medication management, motion sensors, and smart watches to mitigate fear of falling. In offering up a chart and commentary about tech in the 'connected' home, people returning products note their trouble and aggravation.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

This innovative technology allows users, including those with mobility impairments, to control devices such as phones, tablets, smart home devices, and wheelchairs through simple movements, revolutionizing the way they interact with technology and the world around them.” Learn more. Concha Labs. Learn more. Learn more. Nobi Ceiling.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

At the end of April, ninety million US adults were estimated to own smart speakers , one-third of consumers. So let’s say you have an assistant on your smartphone and a smart speaker in your house. Like the increasingly rare stereo speaker in the home, the smart speaker is a connected appliance. million.

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