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Five AI-enabled Tech Startups from AARP AgeTech Collaborative

AI technology is permeating every aspect of business technology today.  Increasingly it will be deployed in the care of older adults, as apparent in research reports like The Future of AI in Home Care and an earlier report, The Future of AI and Older Adults (which will be revisited with new research later in 2025).  With little effort, AI-enabled offerings can be found throughout the startup directory of the AgeTech Collaborative from AARP.  So here are five that sound promising from their descriptions -- all info is derived from the startup website or other reference site.

Senior living tech attitudes are changing – but deployment is still a struggle

The more things change…Argentum published a new survey of senior living executives last month, querying execs about tech adoption, including thoughts about AI in senior living. The report (also sponsored by A Place for Mom) compared two sets of responses about tech from 2023 and 2024 – enabling a possible comparison. On the upbeat side, as of 2024, 76% of responders are optimistic about the role AI can play in their organizations. That question was probably not asked in 2023, so there was nothing to compare, but a number of them today are apparently experimenting with AI. They say that the uses are for staffing efficiency, care planning and improved resident interaction. Perhaps a number of them read a most 2024 report from this website, The Future of AI in Senior Living and Care and saw possibilities for improved documentation, staff education, and even the potential for predictive analytics.

Investors, Entrepreneurs, and Innovators Meet for Networking and Deal Flow at 22nd Annual What's Next Longevity Venture Summit

05/09/2025

Co-hosted by the AgeTech Collaborative™ from AARP, the conference tackles transformative issues and investing in the $8.3 trillion longevity market

LAFAYETTE, Calif., April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Investors, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders in AgeTech and the $8.3 trillion longevity market will convene for the 22nd annual What's Next Longevity Venture Summit, June 10-11 at the Claremont Resort & Club in Berkeley, Calif.

Snug survey shows check-in app makes older adults more, not less independent

04/15/2025

SAN DIEGO, CA, APRIL 15– The premise that older adults who use a daily check-in app are less
independent is incorrect, says a new survey from Snug. The second annual survey of 1800
customers between 60 and 85 with the easy to use, free check-in app showed that the majority
see themselves as “very independent” – with dog owners reporting a slight edge: 88% vs 86%.
“We know that healthy aging is more than just an absence of disease or the ability to take care
of yourself,” said Preet Anand, Snug’s co-founder. “It incorporates social connections and a

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Beyond today’s AgeTech – Buy once, serve many with software personalization

Some have said the concept of ‘AgeTech’ can be a bit depressing.  It is especially bleak when you look at the startup portfolio which aggregates a variety of tech categories to help older adults in their later years, Making Aging Easier for Everyone, and includes offerings that tackle deficits like issues with mobility, fall detection/prevention, caregiving, Alzheimer’s, vision, and many aspects of health. AgeTech tools include a few for the heavily-invested category of Digital Health ($3 Billion in Q1 2025).  All these products, all very useful, fill gaps in the general consumer market.  Consumer product designers tend not to start the day thinking about the older adult as a market segment. Instead, older adults are segmented into their roles -- older adults are the care recipients (B2B healthcare and senior living), as well as individuals with disabilities and needs for greater accessibility and/or services.  All useful.

Fifteen years of AgeTech – the category remains – can a standard improve adoption?

IEEE wants to drive creation of a standard for AgeTech.  The global organization, long a player in the creation of standards across the spectrum of technology and engineering, has launched an ‘Activity’ called Technology Standards for the Aging (or AgeTech).The scope includes “terminology, human factors, usability, metrics, test methods, and interoperability for AgeTech products and services.” One possible output of this initiative is a certification of products or services that are in compliance with the standard.  Many already associated with the AgeTech topic are participating in this initiative, which is comprised of meetings and online discussion over a two-year period.

Robots to help older adults – are we there yet?

Some subjects are perennials – like robots for older adults.  Here we go again. This must be in some Fast Company editor’s standing list of topics – nothing else to write about so let’s do the robot-for-older-adults article again, this time written by futurists, comparing AI tech to physical robots – and asking real older adults what they think. You have to hand it to the interviewees – they know this is not a ‘robots’ topic. And they recognize ‘Advisor’ capability that already exists in Siri and Alexa – and that it is improving, though not (yet?) helping with human connections and isolation. 

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