Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

New announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. It’s been an interesting technology week.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 25, 2024

Facial recognition profiles today enable easy device access and authentication. When a profile is used by a device, capabilities like face recognition/unlock can enable bypassing of sign-on steps on smartphones and tablets. In the future their use will be expanded.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

Starting with the older one (“ Ridiculously symmetrical and highly unusable ”) to the most recent Siri remote – where they give up on usable buttons and enable changing the channel by voice. Why voice interfaces cover a multitude of design sins. No wonder it makes more sense to talk to it. Rant off. .

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Voice, Health, and Wellbeing 2020. Although work is being explored in using the voice as a health diagnostic tool, most uses today are rudimentary and/or experimental. 2020 saw more entrants into this early segment, particularly in voice assistants and new health-oriented skills, refining what works and adds value.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Voice to text helps those with diminished hearing. The Center uses the voice and touch enabled Sundial skill for Alexa (optimized for the Amazon Echo Show) to interact with their private Care Circle of family and friends. Learn more. Learn m ore.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Innovators in 2020 helped mitigate social isolation, enable in-home strength training for seniors, provided the tech mechanics (regardless of infrastructure) to connect older adults to families? The availability of a growing trove of data about our behavior has enabled the ever-smarter world of voice interactions and sensors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Voice technology in 2022 – living up to hope and hype? By 2018, it seemed possible that Voice First technology (and its associated AI software) could transform the technology user experience for older adults (see report: The Future of Voice First Technology and Older Adults 2018 ). In the the next wave, let’s call it Voice 2.0

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MAY 10, 2023

This cycle was not helped by the behavior of earlier AI technologies like voice assistants. Remote monitoring processes depend on a well-trained response network which must deal with various alerts from sensors, cameras, voice-enabled devices, alarm systems, and edge devices – where a person is, but where there is no Wi-Fi or cloud access.

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APRIL 13, 2022

But other technologies need greater adoption – fit into the workflow of staff, applied in ways that reduce walks down long halls, make residents safer, enable home care recipients to be engaged when the worker is not in the home. Here are three categories that can help optimize staff and improve care: Voice-enabled services.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

Regulation shift enabling capabilities in the home and emergency funding for telehealth will persist beyond COVID. Smart displays and voice-first interfaces will be ubiquitous. Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia. Sensor technology shrinks and changes form for health care.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

It continues to be a struggle to fully enable the senior care service industries with high-speed internet capability. So tech companies are beginning to offer AI-enabled cameras and sensor systems that can detect a change based on tech that is closer to the user (EDGE computing), versus transmitted to the cloud for initial processing.

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MAY 12, 2022

Then there is software from Volara (now owned by Uniguest , available as part of T ouchtown Voice ) offer tech concierge services that can help save staff some effort supporting individual users. What about voice? Growth has slowed , but voice usage did not – 46% of Americans are accessing a voice assistant at least once per month.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

For older adults, touchless technologies and voice-enabled interactions are ideal, especially when accompanied by a display of large font text and engaging how-to-cook videos. Voice interfaces will migrate to be expected infrastructure in smart displays and apps, added to every feasible appliance, device, and vehicle.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Voice-enabled innovation softly races ahead. Not just for insomniacs, imagine its utility for the faint-voiced older adult wanting to ask a question. Or consider Apple Family Setup , which enables an Apple Watch to be set up and used without an iPhone, enabling texts, calls and GPS location. Not yet released.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Voice-enabled innovation softly races ahead. Not just for insomniacs, imagine its utility for the faint-voiced older adult wanting to ask a question. Or consider Apple Family Setup , which enables an Apple Watch to be set up and used without an iPhone, enabling texts, calls and GPS location. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this new world of AI and older adults, the 'things' that care may not be sensors or devices, but rather be generated by software platforms incorporating personalized and AI-enabled interactions. The future Internet of AI-enabled Caregiving is mandatory. See Canada’s emergency rooms.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

The entrants that can help older adults fit into categories like: Smart displays, voice first interfaces will be ubiquitous. For older adults, touchless technology and voice-enabled interactions are ideal, especially when accompanied by a display of large font text and engaging videos. It’s not just seniors who need help.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Our cutting-edge sensor technology enhances the capabilities of hearables and provides manufacturers with innovative features including gesture and context recognition, speech processing and voice enhancement, as well as precise head orientation tracking. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Valencell Cuffless BP. Learn more.

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MARCH 10, 2022

See robots in manufacturing, automated floor cleaners in stores, or voice-AI order taking in drive-throughs. Most of the startup companies noted in this 2017 report, Tech-Enabled Home Care , either disappeared, like Home Hero, pivoted like Honor or had to be overhauled, like Care.com. That is a sign. More when there is more.

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MARCH 1, 2023

But here are 'answers': Bing Chat: There are many AI-enabled technologies that are available today to help older adults with various aspects of their health and well-being. category tags: Generative AI , fall prevention, fall detection Do you have any questions about these devices?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Your voice, all over the Internet, has been captured and is being used to scam your mother out of her savings by calling her begging for help with your voice, saying “Mom, Mom, Mom” in a convincing enough way for her to part with her cash. Watch for the next installment of this very public soap opera. Older adults.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Voice tech is pervasive – for some, but hardware market adoption may be slowing. The last published eMarketer survey in 2019 sized the software voice assistant (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa et al.) The last published eMarketer survey in 2019 sized the software voice assistant (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa et al.) million.

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MARCH 30, 2023

An example of AI-based marketing, Botco’s Instachat Builder enables fast deployment by automatically producing questions and answers from reams of data ingested as text or PDF. When linked with ChatGPT's input layer, pertinent context is provided, enabling faster and more accurate issue identification." Learn more at Caspar.ai.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In fact, because of the tedious nature of documenting patient encounters, the tech-enabled scribe innovation was moving slowly anyway. Consider the telehealth-enabled virtual patient sitter. category tags: Conversational and generative AI , healthcare , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Petnow app can solve the problems of the existing pet identification methods such as microchips, tags, and collars that are prone to damage or loss, and it is beginning to enter the U.S. Wi-Fi-enabled and app-controlled, there's no guesswork involved. The system also features an Alexa integration for voice control.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

One might well argue that Amazon has and will continue to have a major impact on the quality of life for older adults (assuming senior privacy concerns and technology barriers to adoption are overcome – more on that another time): Offered low-price Voice First devices. And today you can see AARP’s focus in its website AARP Voice.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

The 2023 versions of voice-first interfaces on smart speakers are no longer ground-breaking – 35% of Americans now own one. Voice assistants and hearing aids. Sixty-two percent of US adults as of January 2023 are using voice assistants on any device (including in-car, in-ear, at-drive-thru). Health and wellness.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Wi-Fi Enabled Fall Detection – and other room-smart changes. Without a wearable on the body (like a PERS pendant or watch), it is now feasible and may even be desirable to detect movement, non-movement and falls using Wi-Fi-enabled in-room sensors. AI Everywhere, including in senior care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

Remember when voice first technology became ‘voice’. You probably didn’t notice the consumerization and commoditization of this variant of AI. But there is a microphone on every app today, enabling us to speak versus typing.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

Smart displays and voice first interfaces will be ubiquitous. For older adults, touchless technology and voice-enabled interactions are ideal, especially when accompanied by a display of large font text and engaging how-to-cook videos. Voice interfaces will be expected in smart displays and apps.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2018

You probably knew this – that 2018 was the year of voice tech and healthcare. As for 2019, according to Sara Holoubek, CEO of Luminary Labs , "expect a proliferation of bad voice experiences." . Cortana has enabled a few skills that are also available on Alexa and Google, like AskMyBuddy.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Moving forward, this type of technology, often AI-enabled, is increasingly likely to be part of offerings from health insurers to improve subscriber engagement and wellbeing of health plan participants, enabling them to remain at home (and out of the hospital). Five technology offerings to mitigate social isolation of older adults.

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MARCH 31, 2021

Karie is easy to use, enables greater patient autonomy and ensures better healthcare through a highly coordinated program." Based on Fogg’s Behavior Model, we increase ability by offering dance videos recorded from our in person classes, and enable 24/7 access. Learn more at AceAge. Dance4Healing. " Learn more at Dance4Healing.

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JULY 24, 2019

It’s a given -- Voice First will be even more pervasive in 2020. The rapid growth of the market for voice-enabled technologies has been a phenomenon within the past two years that can understand spoken requests and commands, answer questions, and even offer scheduled alerts. Why tackle the topic of voice, health, and well-being?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Voice first technology – it’s everywhere and in everything. In 2019, Voice First represented a category of technologies like smart speakers and voice assistants. category tags: wearables, smart watch , smartphones, cell phones , hearables/hearing technology , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Voice First and the Apple Watch had not emerged. The VitalSight remote patient monitoring program relies upon connected medical devices that enables patients to make a commitment to regular heart health monitoring from the comfort of their homes.” and what/who is still around. Laptops were hot (remember the Ultrabook?)

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