UMaine Clinical Geriatrics Colloquium (Zoom), October, 2024
What’s Next Longevity Innovation Summit, DC, Dec, 2024
Older adults want tech companies to focus more on their needs.
Almost nine out of 10 Americans 65+ live in their own home -- and want to stay.
Says WiseOx: AI offers a solution by streamlining processes, enhancing decision-making, and improving experience.
Apple turned its top-selling headphones into low-cost hearing aids.
Nursing (certified) assistants shortage of more than 73,000 nationwide by 2028.
Architectural Digest guide.
Showcasing new aging in place technologies in partnership with tech companies.
Protecting open space. Aging in place. Transit-centered development.
Internet of Things, and how they relate to the Age-in-Place movement.
The dynamic nature of a care circle.
Selected tech described.
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+).
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 