aging in place
Seniors want to age in place. How do homes need to adapt?
A new app allows seniors enrolled in the Lively Health & Safety offering to access in-home support services through Apple's wearable.
As older adults continue to adopt technology, digital health technologies will play an important role in helping them age in place, a new report from Rock Health predicts.
Also: Viz.ai landed a New Technology Add-on Payment designation from CMS, and a Canadian company rolls out new return-to-work wearable.
Stony Brook University experts describe key design points for a successful in-home senior-health-monitoring system, and their efforts to develop such a tool.
The company, known for its ElliQ countertop AI device for seniors, is also working on personal assistant software for cars and other use cases.
The remote care tools are also helping tackle problems of loneliness with virtual group programs.
GreatCall CEO David Inns talks to MobiHealthNews about remote monitoring, predictive analytics and why wearables aren't for everyone.
Developing these strategies and tools will be "critical" for the federal government as it manages the rapidly growing senior population, the report's authors wrote.
Charlotte Yeh, chief medical officer at AARP, discusses the assets of age and which technologies could help address isolation and loneliness.