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Search is dead, long live AI assistants and agents to hopefully help us

We all just want more effective help online. We want information, we need suggestions, even helping us with tasks by doing the work for us. Oh, and we would even like the advice to be timely and accurate!  Over the past few years, as people were exploring ChatGPT as an alternative to traditional search, other alternatives emerged. Actually multiple AI assistant alternatives emerged, forcing downward pressure on Google’s ad-based model, which makes up half of its revenue.  Businesses expecting to be found through Google search are seeing a decline in traffic. And that is likely related to lawsuits pertaining to its AI overviews, which eliminate the need to go further into links.

The AI-enabled future for older adults comes into focus

And just in time -- we are on the cusp of the utility of AI agents. Ironically, or maybe not so much, that improvement is inversely proportional to the diminished availability of people to solve our problems.  We see bits and pieces of the decline of people in processes we need.  Whether it is the sign-in kiosk in the healthcare waiting room, the check-in process at the airport, automated creation of pharmacy refill requests, or the customer service ‘interface’ that is now nearly all AI. And screaming ‘agent’ may still not bring the actual person to the phone. What’s positive and likely? [Information is drawn from interviews about “The Future of AI and Older Adults 2030.” Scheduled to be published in early January 2026]

The Boomer Safety Bundle for the approaching wave of 80-year-olds

January 2026 is just around the corner.  And so will begin the wave of 73 million baby boomers turning 80 over the next 20 years. Maybe they are all in great shape! Not according to a Johns Hopkins researcher: only 25% are ‘robust and active’.  'The rest are a mix of frail and vulnerable, slowed down by health issues.' And many in their 80s and 90s will be aging in place alone – projected by a Harvard study to exceed 10 million.  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) just put out a request for tech ecosystem recommendations – clear understanding that the future for health tech for older adults will be required – and even (!) interoperable. The pace of making all of this happen clearly needs to accelerate.

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