Seniors who receive care at home look ready to talk to machines.
The reality feels more like a high-tech band-aid on a profoundly human problem.
New AI-powered apps and gadgets are built for older adults at home.
Adults aged 50+, however, did not share this assertion.
Policy recommendations for addressing weaknesses in AI and how government is deferring to companies.
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
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]
January 2026 is just around the corner. And so will begin the wave of