Hear or meet Laurie in one of the following:

Related News Articles

12/04/2024

Study notes critical gaps in care and services that must be addressed to meet the growing demands of the aging population in the U.S. 

12/03/2024

After multiple undetected falls, the son decided to take his mother home. 

11/27/2024

Every year, falls among older Americans result in about 3.6 million ER visits and 1.2 million hospital stays, costing roughly $80 billion. 

10/16/2024

About 74% of middle-aged and senior Americans would have very little to no trust in health info generated by AI.

09/26/2024

Older adults want tech companies to focus more on their needs.

You are here

games, fun and fitness

Title: 

games, fun and fitness

Eight New Technologies from AARP's Health Innovation@50+

May 30 marked the beginning of the AARP Life@50+ National Event in Las Vegas – and it also marks the results of the Health Innovation@50+ event sponsored by the Thought Leadership team led by Jody Holtzman at AARP. The finalists are noted below, with their descriptions drawn from the AARP website.  Not noted are two firms, Lively and CareMerge, that we have described following the 2013 What’s Next Summit in Chicago. Here are the other eight finalists, all information is from the AARP site:

Wearables, fitness and activity tracking for seniors -- nowhere in mHealth

Wearables – they’re all the rage now.  A $1.5 billion market by 2014, or maybe $6 billion by 2016. That number includes products that are not yet on the market like Google Glass which is due out late 2013 or early 2014. Pogue describes a prototype which has packed “memory, a processor, a camera, speaker and microphone, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi antennas, accelerometer, gyroscope, compass and a battery, all inside the earpiece.” Good luck to us unlucky enough to be in a car while you are enjoying this power.  Today's texting distractions have drivers swiveling all over the highways, walkers slamming into telephone poles and joggers tripping over tree roots.

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - games, fun and fitness

Categories