Related News Articles

04/16/2025

It’s a common refrain in senior living that today’s assisted living communities are closer to yesterday’s skilled nursing facilities.

04/01/2025

26 of the 48 state Medicaid agencies studied could not report the number of “critical incidents” — such as abuse, neglect or exploitation.

03/16/2025

Goal: meaningful connections, sharing caregiving responsibilities, and developing community-based solutions.

03/12/2025

Fast Company interviewed older adults aged 70+ about their thoughts on possible robots in their homes.

You are here

senior living

Title: 

senior living

The Future of Voice First Technology and Older Adults 2018

A new trend has emerged, pushing leading edge software developers to shift from mobile first to "voice first." Voice First refers to applications and services that people control primarily by speaking, leveraging the latest developments in Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this report, we use the term Voice First to identify this emerging category of voice-controlled devices, applications or services.  Older adults, caregivers, and service providers quickly recognized the power of Voice First and the advantages that voice-driven applications have over both desktop and mobile versions.

Five Tech and Aging Blog Posts You May Have Missed - Aug 2017

Summer lingers in that August lull before all are back-to-business.  Broadcasters are substitutes; columnists are away; the world is awash in out-of-office emails.  So it is seems to be the right time to recap the last month of blog posts before heading into the forward-look at conferences and events about businesses targeting the older adult market.  For example, you may be looking at attending, sponsoring, exhibiting or just learning about LeadingAge, Aging 2.0 Optimize, DigitalHealth Summit At CES or Aging in America.  While mulling those over, check out our new research, a July white paper on social isolation sponsored by GreatCall.  Now here are those five blog posts you may have missed. 

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - senior living

Categories

login account