Americans believe that individuals are primarily responsible for their own well-being when they’re older.
Digital Health startups - should their focus should be on how to attract users and produce data? What about revenue?
Tracked like a disease, compared to MySpace rise and fall.
The company's online marketplace connects families with caregivers for children, seniors, special needs individuals and pets.
Technology can raise questions about whether patient’s personal details are being properly protected.
Not limited to seniors -- users often wind up just using the phones as expensive cameras that can make calls.
Products and services designed to keep older adults engaged, entertained, connected and healthy.
Why were health and fitness displays so close to e-cigarette booths -- is sitting the new smoking?
That is not a question -- the answer is: far too many the minute you enable WiFi outside your home.
Using a Health monitoring device that is part of a system called the MobileCare Monitor, nurses' aides can respond quickly if there's a fall.
Limited job opportunities after age 55, inadequate savings or want to work for themselves.
Nice article about innovation excess (at CES, naturally), as well as innovation unapplied.
Reveals about half as many (more like 170) as has been widely reported.
Forbes: Imagine a home with automatic medication dispensers, robots, video, and motion sensors to detect falls.
Article about touring CES floor by remote-controlled robot.
Among personal and home care aides, those 55 and older are the largest single age demographic.
An interesting collection about the industry -- take a look.
This is your grandfather's Facebook - seniors are the fastest growing demographic.
It will be up to healthcare companies to adapt those technologies to be used by seniors.
The number of “hospice survivors” in the US has risen because hospice companies earn more by recruiting patients who aren’t dying.
Not a survey, but noting of use of EHR, care coordination, sensors, and mobile apps.
