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The care future for older adults needs housing and tech support

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The shortage of care workers within the next decade is daunting – it spans all aspects of care. By now, all of these should be integrated into a low-cost platform, as a plug-in suite sold by Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart or Home Depot, spanning broadband access, lighting, sound, temperature control, health and safety status monitoring.

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Falling short on solving the care crisis, now and in the future

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Boston Consulting Group analyzed the care crisis recently asserts that the lack of paid or unpaid care workers to provide care of children or aging parents may prevent them from filling unfilled jobs, noting the 99 million people today who are not in the workforce. A well-known consulting firm assesses the growing care gap.

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Will robots help us in our homes – now and within 10 years?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The demand for home care workers will grow by at least by 37%. Clearly there will be a need for caregiving robots or robotics to help with bathing and dressing, meal preparation and cleanup, socialization, and multiple in-home safety-related tasks. category tags: robotics , Family caregivers , Home Care. Thoughts welcome!

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Nursing homes and Covid-19 – defensiveness persists 

Aging in Place Technology Watch

And seniors (AARP) who are most likely NOT in nursing homes, demand that workers have adequate PPE , that the public be notified which nursing homes have cases of Covid-19, workers are striking at nursing homes , and so on. hour was as low as that of Walmart workers. Walmart workers, say the company, average $14.26/hour

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The Future of Sensors and Older Adults -- Looking Forward 5 years

Aging in Place Technology Watch

But for night shift monitoring of residents, it seems unimaginable that senior living organizations would continue to cobble together temp workers to fill shifts of hall-walking staffers. Or that home care organizations could continue to turn down contracts due to lack of workers to fill them. Cost of care will be rightsized.

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The care future for older adults needs housing and tech support

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The shortage of care workers within the next decade is daunting – it spans all aspects of care. By now, all of these should be integrated into a low-cost platform, as a plug-in suite sold by Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart or Home Depot, spanning broadband access, lighting, sound, temperature control, health and safety status monitoring.

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Nursing homes and Covid-19 – defensiveness and obfuscation persist 

Aging in Place Technology Watch

And seniors (AARP) who are most likely NOT in nursing homes, demand that workers have adequate PPE , that the public be notified which nursing homes have cases of Covid-19, workers are striking at nursing homes , and so on. hour was as low as that of Walmart workers. Walmart workers, say the company, average $14.26/hour

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