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Four Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from February 2021

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Here are four blog posts from February 2021: Aging in place – it’s emerged (again) during these Covid-19 times. When the 2022 surveys of broadband access for the 65+ are published, will the numbers be much higher? New government efforts are underway to offer cheaper broadband -- will older adults participate? Stay tuned.

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Aging and Health Technology blog posts from January 2021

Aging in Place Technology Watch

But some, as with yesterday’s CES 2021 blog post , are quite straightforward and obviously useful. How many of these exist? An international conference where inventions from everywhere are welcomed. Some of these offerings, as always, are odd.

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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from September 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. The boomer-and-beyond market has caught the eye of the tech industry.

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The Next Site for Hospital Care Is the Original One — Your Home

Health Populi

I explore this growing concept in my latest essay on Medecision’s Liberation blog, How the Pandemic Is Accelerating the Hospital-At-Home Concept. Think: advanced home care, enabled through virtual health technologies and wrap-around services both clinical and scaled social determinants support.

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Four Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from July 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

For older adults, July was a few steps forward… And a few back. A new venture capital firm formed that is focused on the older adult market. Primetime Partners adds a $32 million fund to the miniscule list of VCs both admitting interest AND actually investing in the segment.

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Four Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from March 2021

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Here are the four blog posts from March 2020: The trumpets sounded loudly at the arrival of Voice First. A re-read shows how excited the 31 interviewees and participants were, offering their vision of the future of this technology and its potential use by older adults. Its useful website lasted nearly 30 years.

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Lessons from COVID-19: How virtual health technology can improve senior care

Vidyo

While technology can never replace the immeasurable benefits of direct human care, it can supplement interactions that might otherwise not happen at all. The post Lessons from COVID-19: How virtual health technology can improve senior care appeared first on Vidyo Blog.