2024 What's Next Longevity Venture Summit (online)
2024 Longevity Venture Summit (DC)
But if these devices are so smart, why can’t they talk to each other?
The ability to detect subtle changes in body movements averts potential health issues.
Cost of staffing keeps prices high.
AI can streamline back-end tasks and enhance the patient-provider relationship.
An easier political path for Medicare and Social Security?
Not enough contractors to remodel all of the homes that will need it.
Some older adults are living in neighborhoods that may be making them sick.
Winning technology needs to be affordable with a business model to make it viable.
Tech-enabling home care is one lens on future of care. Venture capitalists listen carefully for trends fueled by talk in the media. During the past several years, they heard plenty -- about the longevity economy and an investment-related network, digital health watchers like Rock Health and Startup Health 'moonshots', and all things boomer and their tech interest about the future. So they saw home care as a growth opportunity. Buried in and mostly around the wave of investment and media interest in boomers (oldest age now is 71), the tech industry also noodled a bit more about the over-hyped Internet of Things, emerging voice recognition technologies, and technology adoption trends (everybody except for those aged 75+).
Robotic assistant and technology for aging.
22.6 percent of the older population nationwide is at risk of aging alone.
Three categories: home functionality, enhanced lifestyle and health monitoring.
Health systems aren’t rewarded financially for making “time at home” a priority.
If you’re a single, childless senior who will watch out for you?
Is the phrase 'Thriving in Place' a euphemism too far?
Tech-enabling home care is one lens on future of care. Venture capitalists listen carefully for trends fueled by talk in the media. During the past several years, they heard plenty -- about the 