Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2022

We are used to citing population surveys to cite trends. The growth has been tracked most recently in survey samples that compared the most recent with prior time periods: AARP surveyed 2063 and Pew Research surveyed 1502 adults. And Linkage Connect surveys the oldest, with a sizable sample of 2398 older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 29, 2019

This 2019 Technology Survey of Older Adults Age 55-100 , conducted online, notes that 80% of respondents (45% of whom live in senior-oriented communities/housing) have smartphones. With grandchildren encouragement and media hype, unlike the 2016 Link·age survey , the responders were quite aware of the newer technologies on the market.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 11, 2020

AARP’s 2020 survey provides more context. In their most recent tech survey , 81% of those 60-69 and 62% of those aged 70+ owned smartphones, with the vast majority in both age groups using them daily for a wide variety of purposes, leading with connecting to others via messaging or email.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Surveyed older adults struggle with technology they own in 2023. According to AARP’s most recent survey of older adults , 20% of the 70% individuals own smart home technology (small sample, though). But overall, 76% of the full population surveyed who are aged 70+ do not believe that technology was designed with them in mind.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 25, 2024

For market researchers, there are many data-driven ways to gauge consumer preferences today, and tech companies can chose among surveys, interviews, focus groups and customer observation. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smart home , smartphones, cellphones , Television/Smart TV , wearables, smart watch

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

Goolsbee and Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, tag-teamed the U.S. consumers say the “important things in life today” are health and financial security, according to the latest study from the Retirement Security Survey conducted by Principal in Q4 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 14, 2021

Pew Research just published its periodic survey about Internet use. Pew’s survey categories included : Age, Rural/Urban, Male-Female, Income, Race, and Education. In other surveys – it’s been bleakly similar. What could one do to dramatically improve survey future results? Like the American Community Survey?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In fact, 23% of respondents to a government survey had used telehealth during a 6-month period in 2021. 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."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

But there’s a problem: AARP’s tech trends survey from 2024 and their 2023 guidance from AARP on inclusive design practices, it’s clear and as the AARP report notes, “No one prefers badly designed, over-complicated products.” Despite preferences, surveys show that today’s user experience for older adults is more problematic than ever.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

category tags: aging in place , AgeTech , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection The articles and tech industry focus on ‘aging in place’ and fear. And it’s not unlike the ‘I’ve Fallen and I can’t Get Up’ fear. They look forward to eating meals with others, served by others.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2022

These assertions are built on the Service Annual Survey (2021). category tags: AgeTech , senior living. Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly saw a 34.4% increase in revenue from 2013 to 2020. Home Health Care Services experienced an even larger increase – 50/5% -- during the same period.” population ages 65 and over will be 83.9

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2024

How about fielding a survey before spending investor’s money -- sounds crazy, huh? category tags: seniors and aging policy , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones Or reading the wrong tea leaves or basing a product on personal experience (“My grandmother fell down.”) Or conducting focus groups, even less prevalent today.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

According to a 2023 Experian survey report , these frustrations are a result of inability to schedule an appointment quickly, use a mobile device to schedule, or expect more digital options to manage their care. Meanwhile providers in that same survey noted that staffing shortages prevented them from providing better access.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

Will results change when older adults are surveyed later this year? So if this is the baseline of adoption, what’s next when the surveys come around again? Their latest surveys about smartphone and broadband, as with the Caregiver study, were completed in 2019. Health-related technology adoption. Technology Adoption -- AARP.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 22, 2023

Likely adoption by the 65+ population has far exceeded the 61% percent in the 2022 Pew survey or the most recent AARP Tech Trends survey. Because 100 million people downloaded ChatGPT – so it must be a good idea. category tags: AI and machine learning , computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones , technology support

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

These may have revealed -- like the AARP recent survey of the 70+ age group -- the lack of adoption of devices and tech among the oldest. 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. If so, please comment.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Does anyone see the oddity of surveying 55 to 70-year olds about what they want in their aging future? From the survey: " My mom was able to live independently in her home until she was 95." But maybe not always so independently: consider the post-Covid rise of the Medical Home , the rise of ’virtual first’ visits and telehealth care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 17, 2020

Their latest surveys about smartphone and broadband, as with the Caregiver study, were completed in 2019. That number is likely to jump up the next time the survey is done, if only because stores primarily display smartphones, and mostly iPhones. The AARP Research survey of older adults was completed in 2019, published in early 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

The last published eMarketer survey in 2019 sized the software voice assistant (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa et al.) But according to a late 2019 AARP survey , only 20% of the 50+ population use voice assistants – and for the 70+, only 12%. as penetrating one third of the US population – 111.8 Is it furniture or feature?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

A recent survey conducted by 9amHealth found that 48% of Americans are on or want to be on a GLP-1 medication, and a staggering 20% would even change their jobs to get access to coverage for the drugs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2019

There are few surveys (Pew has nothing!). AARP recently surveyed the health impact (that’s good), but not the cost of correcting hearing loss. Another survey (Hearing Tracker) of 2000 hearing aid users was conducted (led by an audiologist) last year that reported what users typically pay ($2372 per hearing aid.).

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Deloitte surveyed 624 physicians and 4,530 consumers to gauge each stakeholder group’s perspectives on digital and virtual healthcare technologies, opportunities and concerns. “Macy’s? As the Deloitte consumer-vs-physician study shows, there’s a gap between patients who are taking on more DIY healthcare tasks.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

In fact, a greater percentage of the oldest (the real seniors) could be counted if a representative population was actually surveyed. Sadly, it appears that only Link·age surveys tech ownership of the oldest, but that only encompasses their own constituency. The Leading Age/CAST survey was not all that encouraging either.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

But that same survey notes that many believe that technology is not being designed with older adults in mind. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones. And at the end of 2021, 90% of US Internet users accessed the Internet via a mobile phone. How about those aged 65+?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2023

of surveyed do this, all ages), taping that yellow sticky (or full sheet of passwords to accounts) next to their computer or they put it in a word file so they can carry with them. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills , while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. 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

APRIL 9, 2020

And in the face of this lockdown, likely more technology may be used at home by older adults than is detectable in surveys. Using the most recent data, home broadband adoption drops off notably in the upper age ranges, down to 59% of the 65+, though surveying of the older age ranges is infrequent.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2020

Cambia Health released a survey of caregivers, 64% of surveyed caregivers use at least one digital tool to help them with caregiving. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home , dementia care, cognitive decline.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 20, 2020

Analysts also do custom paid work for some of those companies– such as advisory sessions, surveys, webinars, speaking engagements, or white papers. Analyst firms typically publish market overviews -- for the tech sector, Gartner Magic Quadrant positioning, Forrester Wave or IDC market surveys. OPINION OFF. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

We are used to citing population surveys to cite trends. The growth has been tracked most recently in survey samples that compared the most recent with prior time periods: AARP surveyed 2063 and Pew Research surveyed 1502 adult s. And Linkage Connect surveys the oldest, with a sizable sample of 2398 older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 17, 2019

According to the commentary in the Pew report, while 59% of the 65-75 are smartphone owners, the new number was 40% for the 75+, which had an ownership rate of 31% (age 75-79), last surveyed in 2017 , when 17% of the 80+ had them. category tags: smartphones , computers, internet and social networking.

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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. category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection , Remote monitoring , AI and machine learning On the LifeAlert website, the woman is still falling and can’t get up.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

Cambia Health released a survey of caregivers, 64% of surveyed caregivers use at least one digital tool to help them with caregiving. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , medication management , social isolation , covid-19 , Aging, ageism.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy. A few highlights from the report catch the eye.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

AARP fuels it with survey results (77% of the 50+ want to age in place). Free-lance writers follow up with an Aging in Place story citing the survey. Note: Please see the 2023 updated Market Overview Technology for Aging ] category tags: Generative AI , aging in place , AgeTech , baby boomers , AI and machine learning

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

Also notable, considering that most wearables are still paired with them, smartphone ownership has risen most sharply among the 70+, with 77% of survey responders indicating they own one. category tags: wearables, smart watch , Technology - AARP. Wearables are increasingly providing health status signals, some useful, some not.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

According to Pew Research’s 2019 survey, 59% of the 65+ have broadband in the home. This probably includes the 31% of the 65+ surveyed in April who said that access to the Internet was essential. category tags: telehealth , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , healthcare , Seniors.

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