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? The history of tech user interfaces is instructive – leading to the ‘less (information) is more’ approach, no doubt stressful for novices.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2022

Design still needs to include older adults. You can read about inclusive design , sometimes called design-for-all , accessible design, and universal design. None of these concepts are specific to designing for inclusion of aging adults. Consider accessible design – where does it fit in the design world?

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 17, 2024

The fourth annual competition is designed to surface new ideas that will fundamentally improve healthcare and its underlying systems and processes. With a focus on interoperability, patient engagement, and streamlined workflows, CharmHealth offers a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to meet the evolving needs of modern healthcare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2024

Are there innovations on the horizon that will improve the tech user experience? Should improvements be focused on older adults – or is this really a Design for Everyone opportunity? Are tech developers so insulated from users, they don’t see the deterioration of experience as it happened? million) is aged 75+?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

Tech complexity for new users is getting worse. You search the tech forums, find the example of what happened and voilà, there’s the fix. 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. How naïve.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

You saw and considered the 2022 Tech Trends. Here’s hoping that 2023 makes tech installation and integration easy for families and consumers. Some other thoughts about 2023 tech trends: Remote (health) care technology should add socialization. Stay tuned for blog posts in January. Caregiving technology trends.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

More programs are emerging to get older adults to tech parity. Then AARP and OATS joined together to teach tech to older adults. Boosting tech access to devices and broadband is a 2021 requirement. The social isolation brought on by Covid-19 was an eye-opener for tech firms, investors, retailers, and startups.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Smaller by half (100,000) than in olden times, there were plenty of new tech offerings there. AARP sponsored an entire large area for its AgeTech Summit – talks and displays of new tech for an older adult market, cataloguing participants in an online directory. XanderGlasses are designed to be used like a simple "on" and "off" device.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The articles and tech industry focus on ‘aging in place’ and fear. They are hopeful about the new technology designed to help them. category tags: aging in place , AgeTech , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection And it’s not unlike the ‘I’ve Fallen and I can’t Get Up’ fear.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2024

In the tech innovation world, a decade is both a long and short time. Design for all, customize on need. Simplify processes – a decade ago the concept of self-installation was not quite there for many tech offerings. category tags: seniors and aging policy , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

Has the tech user experience substantially improved? For years device and software tech ‘improved’ to a point of widespread optimism about our tech future. Or has the tech user experience also deteriorated? Today there are numerous programs to subsidize access, and smartphone penetration has exceeded 92%.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And, many tags related to mental health became well-used, such as #MentalHealthMatters, #MentalHealthAwareness, #WellBeing, and #BellLetsTalk from the campaign addressing stigma. Brandwatch suggests several tactics, including: Applying better user-centered and experience design. Adopt sound security protocols and tech.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And finally, to cap things off, today the big guns of the tech industry, will spend seven hours behind closed doors discussing how to regulate AI. And as with all Gartner hype cycles and notable tech trends, even though execs are interested, most do not have an AI strategy. Consider the telehealth-enabled virtual patient sitter.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2023

In the world of hype for those who have followed the tech industry, the phrase ‘greatest thing since sliced bread’ comes to mind. Furthermore, post-hospital care will increasingly be tech-enabled , including use of voice based chatbots like Sensely’s Molly. The New York Times attempts similar for the uninitiated.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

A new report from AARP this week zeros in on something we all knew: Advertisers focus on the young – not unlike the tech firms who make products being advertised. If you work in a Silicon Valley tech company, the odds are that you are a millennial (20-33) -- hired at a rate that is not reflective of the working age population.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Too much risk of conflict with designer vision? Or are designers are driven by a completely different goal – competing with each other – and leaving the rest to online forums. This is particularly disheartening when considering today’s designs for products we want all generations to use. Too time-consuming?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2022

For example, we expect tech products to be more intuitive and usable than they are. There seems to be a growing number of tech offerings that can see, sense, detect, and learn about behavioral patterns as part of new tools for older adults and their caregivers. Design still needs to include older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 24, 2023

Within five years, however, it is inevitable that the role of this tech revolution in our lives and those of older adults will enable changes in society’s focus, occurring in and across multiple domains. category tags: AI and machine learning , chatbots , Conversational and generative AI

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

Fortunately, some states are now allowing families to visit residents in designated areas outside. Ending the era of no-tech to at least some tech. 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. What will be different in that year?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

And there are numerous separate focal points for tech for older adults (see Samsung Health House ) and a CTA Foundation Pitch Competition. MindMics Heart Health System is an innovative and comprehensive solution designed to address the growing need for next-generation heart health monitoring. Learn more. MindMics Heart Health System.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2022

This type of tech had obvious benefits, even then, but today, what was obvious then has become a crisis of care today. Labrador has designed a system of pallets and trays that allow its Retriever robot to carry out fetching tasks autonomously." category tags: IoT and home monitoring , baby boomers , senior living. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Today if looking for assistive tech for older adults, today there are multiple options, including Amazon or Best Buy. Privacy and security features will be built into design of software and websites. However, 76% of responders aged 70+ in the most recent AARP survey do not think technology was designed with them in mind.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

It took the combination of 71 million boomers, a pandemic emergency, and the sheer size of the aging population to transform a 2009 market niche into this 2021 market category worthy of investment-- less about products specifically designed for older adults as it is about the marketing of many existing offerings as useful to them.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

In tech, nothing is forever, though. CES 2024 brought ten offerings of new tech for older adults into view. The Seattle-based company’s device has an ergonomic handle, and its sensors are designed to help users avoid obstacles, find waypoints on maps, and stop at stairs and elevators. Learn more. Nobi Ceiling. consumers in 2024.”

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Digital Health Global

JULY 11, 2023

This year’s Innovation Challenge invites proposals designed to address the biggest issues faced by healthcare providers, patients and organizations. The Challenge also offers a comprehensive support ecosystem designed to address the unique needs of startups. CharmHealth goes beyond providing just funding or mentorship to winners.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2020

This tech market is less about products specifically designed for older adults and more about smarter marketing of many consumer offerings that could be useful to them. We make intelligently designed, fully integrated platforms that move quality-conscious health and wellness consumers closer to compliance and optimal health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

Toch Sleepsense is a non-contact sleep monitoring device, easily placed under the foot of a bed that is uniquely designed to detect when a person exits the bed. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , senior living , Family caregivers , AgeTech Learn more at Mariposa Technologies. Toch Sleepsense.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Sensory-friendly shirts will have flat seams, softer material and no tags.” ” The designer of the line, Lisa Vogl, told InStyle, “Verona Collection is more than a clothing brand. The line has been so successful they’ve attracted the likes of designer Nanette Lapore to do her own label called First Curve.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. The meeting’s tagline this year is “Health That Connects + Tech That Cares.” Note that 3 in 4 Washingtonians supported the law when polled in March 2023, with only 17% of people opposing it.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

All are designed to monitor activity or its absence. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , tech-enabled home care , Family caregivers. Consider the staff daily and nightly workload of check-in walks, nearby and all the way to the end. Veterans and nursing home residents in wheelchairs need assistance in repositioning. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2019

Should we expect change from aging-related tech policy initiatives? Regulation of home design to sustain independence? As for "better design guidelines to improve product design for older adults’ needs?" The pace of tech change is accelerating and the rate at which devices become obsolete is user-hostile.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

That category is less about products specifically designed for older adults as it is about the marketing of many existing offerings as useful to them. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 18, 2020

In the face of the devastation and economic collapse precipitated by the pandemic, many tech firms soldier on, finding opportunity, re-spinning products, and announcing new capability. App which brings our simple to use connectivity solution designed for 75+ seniors to any Android and iOS smart phone. Learn more at Safety Labs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Common aspects of aging should be factored into design of any essential technology – such as vision loss or differences, hand-eye coordination/function, cognitive decline. Click here to for the Technology for Aging 2023 Market Overview category tags: Family caregivers , seniors and aging policy

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

Ten years ago, the tech product choices designed for older adults were few and rudimentary. The intent was simplification of the basics for the tech-reluctant – sending email, looking at information online. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , PERS , social media , cell phones, smartphones.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

Analytics Cloud Computing Population Health Telehealth Workforce One CIO names the technologies and leadership strategies he'll be focused on this year: platform design, 'Virtual Care 3.0' Think about your tech stack and whether those are robust enough for work from anywhere with security measures in place.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 30, 2019

An Optimal Aging competition in Boston included several tech-enabled offerings as winners. RideRite, a bicycle handlebar designed by Virginia Tech students won a Stanford Longevity challenge. Competition among Voice First tech giants were waged – did anyone win?

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