Is the user experience deteriorating? Tech user experience experts focus on everyone except older adults. But there’s a problem: from 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. All are confronted with buggy software and frequent bug fix releases, such a problem on iPhones that an embarrassed Apple redirected software work towards fixing. And Google is no better with Pixel phones.
Palo Alto, CA. [Jan 25, 2024] - Caspar.AI, an innovator in AI-driven remote healthcare technology, today announced the worldwide launch of its Contactless Vitals & Real-Time Bed Monitoring Solutions. Leveraging 150 billion data points about home behaviors, Caspar.AI's patient-centric models enable remote healthcare providers to extend their services into both facilities and home environments effectively.
This report was revised in January of 2024. It was updated to reflect trends, demographic data about older adults, policy changes, new products and services as well as inclusion of available data about what tech they own and/or prefer. The final section with examples includes 30 offerings and services new for this report, indicated by **.
The show is over, the press dispersed, the awards won. CES 2024 is over, with 135,000 attendees, and AI as the story of the show, and according to AARP, offering the promise of better aging and even helping to fix the caregiving crisis. These assertions have been made before, of course. Consider 2020, right before the start of COVID-19. Or CES 2019, when Google Assistant was everywhere and today, when it appears to be ‘going down the tubes.’ In tech, nothing is forever. CES can provide an opportunity to put a new face, new version, on products that appeared previously (see Nobi and Zibrio Advantage below.) CES 2024 brought ten offerings of new tech for older adults into view. And from the same show, here are 8 more:
AgeTech is a niche market no more. As we approach 2024 and the plethora of tech introductions from CES 2024, let's reflect. This past year underscored the demographic changes that have brought an aging population -- turning 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day -- into the sight lines of investors, startups and health providers. The very recent monumental investment that swept AI and media visibility underscored how AI could help older adults. And the shortage of labor in the care industries put a spotlight on the gaps in care that AI tech can help close. No doubt 2024 will reveal more investment and innovation in tech for older adults. All material is drawn from the websites of the companies.
San Francisco, December 1, 2023 - Scrum Studio Inc., in partnership with Hakuhodo, announces the launch of AgeTechX, a visionary open innovation program dedicated to helping scale and grow startups developing products and solutions working to revolutionize the $2 trillion field of aging-related technology and services by collaborating with Japanese corporations.
What a week – chaos at OpenAI plus the rise of scam innovation. This weekend exposed a conflict at OpenAI, the November 22, 2022 bringer of ChatGPT, between the board that wants to develop AI for good and perhaps another view, AI for commercial profit. Sam Altman the founder is fired, begs to come back and instead is offered a job and a team at Microsoft (the other big funder of OpenAI.) He agrees to go to Microsoft and 700 of OpenAI’s 750 employees threaten to quit. Guess they weren’t big fans of AI for Good. Microsoft, which committed as much as $10 billion over time for OpenAI, might think AI for Profit might be a better strategy. Watch for the next installment of this very public soap opera.
Is the user experience deteriorating? 
What a week – chaos at OpenAI plus the rise of scam innovation. This weekend exposed a conflict at 