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October 2026

How many health apps are too many?

Ask and you shall receive – approximately.   How many health apps are available for the iPhone? Says Google – there are 60,000 health apps (eliminating the medical category) in the App Store. Grok says 76,451, ChatGPT says 82,000.  And ChatGPT, as a good spy, went a step further, though not asked – claiming that there is no official count of apps for aging in place, caregiving, dementia, hearing, and medication management.  And Apple does not count these as a separate category anyway.  

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Five new tech-enabled offerings for older adults -- September-October 2026

Each month brings new offerings into the marketplace.  Or getting ready to enter the marketplace by launching  a pilot or other announcement.  As is often the case, new offerings include AI enabled tools for connection and or fall prevention. This month brings an unusual addition – a guide to Humanoid Robots from RobixOne.  And further, patenting Balance as a vital sign (!).  Here are five announcements from September-October, 2026:

Let's get over AI Fear Factor

Lots of blah-blah about AI and risk these days. The backlash has begun. Maybe it’s a good thing – or maybe it’s too late. Perhaps the AI agents have jumped out of the bag, beyond the firewall and are running amok. Perhaps we have no idea what they are doing. It’s like people coming into your building to work that you didn’t hire or vet. And they cover their tracks! The latest ‘innovation’ is from that purveyor of invasive software, Meta. Meta, the leading pioneer of personal data misuse and abuse has brought us Muse, which is busy building a dossier on you – what matters to you, what nudges shape your behavior. Cooking up meeting outlines while you cook. Do you trust them with even more of your personal info? Seriously?

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