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An Old Age Home All Your Own
05/01/2010

Aging in place in Westchester -- more villages (aka intentional communities) ramp up.

Just5 is Good for Grandma
05/01/2010

Senior cell phone from Europe competes with Doro, Jitterbug.

The trouble with healthcare IT vendors
05/01/2010

Designed by doctors for doctors -- produced impractical or poorly adopted offerings.

Older Jobseekers Face an Uphill Battle
04/30/2010

About the 2 million people over 55 who are unemployed.

With Video Chatting, It's a Small World After All
04/28/2010

Identifies multiple video chat alternatives -- with, extending, and without a computer.

Senate panel looks to health IT
04/26/2010

Barriers cited: privacy and security concerns, licensing and credentialing, connectivity, and questions about the regulatory approach.

The Rise Of the Fleet-Footed Start-Up
04/26/2010

The lean start-up process -- a smaller role for VCs -- for Internet companies.

A Graying Population, A Graying Workforce
04/25/2010

Caregivers of aging people are themselves aging.

Disruptive Demographics: Health 3.0
04/24/2010

Now that boomers are online, how do they use the Net on behalf of their own health?

The Senior Sleuth's Guide to Technology for Seniors
04/23/2010

A review of a paperback book that can help seniors get started using a range of technologies.

In the Healthcare Bill -- A New Focus on Elder Abuse
04/23/2010

A plethora of programs (not yet funded) to protect seniors.

Nursing Home Residents Get Aid to Move Out
04/23/2010

No mention of any tech, including tech for remote monitoring.

Rockin' the Retirement home
04/22/2010

 Linked Senior, the first audio entertainment system for the elderly.

Brain training 'boost' questioned
04/21/2010

BBC study of 11,430 people concludes brain training games do not produce skills more transferrable to improving cognitive fitness than web-browing.

More doctors prescribing online
04/20/2010

More but still not big: online prescribing represents 12% of prescriptions.

Disruptive Demographics
04/16/2010

Joseph Coughlin (AgeLab) writes about design considerations for products that will accommodate the 'me' baby boomer generation.

A Life Worth Living
04/15/2010

As the Japanese population ages (25% over age 65), older workers are in the workforce.

Gadgets in a Graying World
04/15/2010

"If a technology ever emerges to cure the inconvenience of getting old, it’ll catch on in Japan, where a gadget-crazy population is aging rapidly."

Officials tour Aging Well Center (Clearwater)
04/15/2010

Aging Well center in Clearwater -- is this the new descriptor and model for Senior Centers?

Boomers displace 20-somethings
04/12/2010

Boomer entrepreneurs dominate the startup world -- as they did in every other domain.

VA Health IT investments save $3 billion
04/08/2010

Health IT-related savings generated over a 10 year period.

Tech Titans Encourage Seniors to Go Online
04/07/2010

Well, speaking of seniors going online -- looks like there's a tech GOAL now.

For the elderly, the wired world holds terror -- or delight
04/06/2010

One indicator of how seniors do learning to use computers is how they regard the future. If they’re positive, they’re more apt to make the transition.

In social dealings, being older is being wiser
04/05/2010

A study evaluates responses by age groupings to social concerns.

Charities boost profits of Erickson Retirement Communities
04/04/2010

Also read this WSJ article on analyzing retirement community finances.

 

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