Maybe Best Buy has an idea worth copying from Amazon. In 2015, Amazon introduced Amazon Home Services, which fairly recently added tech services, including sending a local tech professional to your home. The work might be setting up a router; connections for 4 devices; password protection; and use and troubleshooting instructions. Recently, Best Buy launched Assured Living, a service to help long-distance adult children monitor older family members’ well-being, including setting them up with smart home technologies (costing as much as $1000 for all of them), possibly some of the list is in the ‘official’ definition. Oh yeah, and there is a service charge of $1/day.
As August winds down, startups wind up. For some, maybe they still think that summer is winding down and all is quiet in business and beyond. But no -- back to school, back to work, and back to starting companies. Aging 2.0 finalists have been announced, conference media organizations are ramping up, and a few leaves begin to turn – fall is in clearly the air and around the corner. Before August disappears altogether and the media engines shift into gear, here are five announcements of new technologies designed to help older adults and/or their caregivers. All material is derived from the websites of the firms:
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearCare, the market leading SaaS and mobile platform for home care agencies, today announced the acquisition of HomeTrak, a pioneer in private duty home care software solutions.
As part of the acquisition, ClearCare will continue to support the HomeTrak Companion products.
Consider the Gallup-Healthways survey about community well-being. Naples, Florida, is at the top. Really? Perhaps this caught your eye last week when you saw the Gallup survey about well-being. For those who missed it, the survey ranked well-being of adults 18 and older in a community (town) by specific factors -- Purpose, Social, Financial, Community, and Physical. At the highest level, Naples was followed by the town of Barnstable on Cape Cod. Consider that the attribute ‘Physical,’ for example, meant “Having good health and enough energy to get things done daily.” So look past the survey. These towns are comparatively wealthy by national measures -- the median income for a household in Naples is $66K and for those over age 75, it is $71K. For Barnstable, median income is $62.1K – and note that 20% of the Barnstable population is 65+, higher than the 135 national percentage. In Naples, the median age is 60 and an eye-popping 42% of the population is aged 65+.
As August winds down, startups wind up. For some, maybe they still think that summer is winding down and all is quiet in business and beyond. But no -- back to school, back to work, and back to starting companies. 
Largest city in the US shows a path for an aging society. New York has long been a host and leader in supporting older adults, from being a 
Consider the Gallup-Healthways survey about community well-being. Naples, Florida, is at the top. Really? Perhaps this caught your eye last week when you saw the 