On a mission to both bring more innovation to the 50+ crowd and sow entrepreneurial seeds among the demographic.
Report to help digital health entrepreneurs assess if mobile health apps would be classified as medical devices.
Some patients even have trouble accessing their own health records, supposedly because of the privacy law.
A study found that being isolated from family and friends linked to a 26% higher death risk over seven years.
A study teaching older people how to use programs like Facebook has found social media can help reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness among seniors.
The study: cost per quality adjusted life year, a standard metric, was nearly $140,000 more than cost of standard care.
More on how service robots will be in the home -- eventually.
Martin Bayne -- who lives in Assisted Living -- gives advice, which includes "Once you’re here, you’d get a job."
From Retail to Health Care, Developers Are Building Products Based on the Motion Sensing Device.
S Health -- another letter to add to the alphabet soup.
New Philips Infographic about healthy aging.
The desire to stay in one’s home as long as possible and the interest in living in big-city neighborhoods or suburban downtowns.
Average age of a resident upon move-in has shifted from 82 to 87;memory care will be more like 80% of the business.
What VCs consider worth an investment in the 'Digital health' sector.
Are assisted living communities really nursing homes with better surroundings?
The real business opportunity will be services and products for the elderly...and poor.
Pew: the percentage of patients who use some form of technology, such as mobile apps, to track health indicators has remained virtually unchanged for three years.
Many in-home caregivers struggle to make ends meet. More than 90 percent are women, nearly half are minorities, and 40 percent rely on Medicaid and food stamps.
And for every naysayer, there's a study that says nay.
