Age In Place: With The Latest Tech For older adults who want to age in place, “There’s no place like home” is more than just a quote from The Wizard of Oz movie. Living securely in their own homes or communities and remaining independent are what many seniors want to do as long as possible. … Continue reading “Age In Place: With The Latest Tech”
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Senior Tech Can Be Beneficial For Health Reasons
Senior Tech Can Be Beneficial For Health Reasons If there was one aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic that worked in favor of older adults, it was using telehealth to help seniors stay in contact with their healthcare providers. Telehealth, also called telemedicine, saw rapid growth during the pandemic, and there are no plans to slow … Continue reading “Senior Tech Can Be Beneficial For Health Reasons”
Senior Tech
Senior Tech Carol Smith is in a wheelchair and has limited mobility. So, she depends on her husband, Ray Smith, to do tasks around their home. The couple, who live in a retirement community in Carlsbad, California, participated in a pilot program for seniors that involved using Amazon’s Echo smart speaker and Amazon’s Alexa, a … Continue reading “Senior Tech”
Senior Tech
Senior Tech With more people ages 50 and over wanting to stay active longer and live independently as long as possible, new technologies are being developed to help them achieve their goals. Some smart devices are already operating in homes while new technologies are being tested in certain senior living communities. Many more are in … Continue reading “Senior Tech”
Senior Tech
Senior Tech Lisa Cini has been designing senior living facilities for over 25 years. So, it wasn’t difficult for her to remodel her Columbus, Ohio, home so that she and her husband, her two teenagers, her 70-something-year-old parents, and her 92-year-old grandmother who had dementia, could all live under one roof. After her grandmother died … Continue reading “Senior Tech”
Senior Tech
Senior Tech Adults between 45 and 60 years old are not hired for jobs involving technology because managers believe they do not have what it takes to make mid-career changes, a recent survey showed. “They won’t catch on to the technology,” or “They’ll have a hard time developing new skills” were just a few of … Continue reading “Senior Tech”
Senior Tech For Aging In Place
Senior Tech For Aging In Place Living independently is getting increasingly easier—and safer—for older adults thanks to the growing number of smart-home devices. As long as there is Wi-Fi and Internet in the home, seniors can use a smartphone app, a laptop, or a smart-home hub to control the temperature on a thermostat, respond to … Continue reading “Senior Tech For Aging In Place”
Senior Age Tech
Senior Age Tech There’s no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic changed life as we know it, and among those changes were older adults discovering that technology could move them into a new form of living. What’s been dubbed as “virtual assisted living” came about when smart devices were used during the pandemic to help older … Continue reading “Senior Age Tech”
Senior Age Tech
Senior Age Tech The number of tech companies developing devices that help older adults live independently in their own homes has increased over the years. But the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the creation of age tech startups, technology development for seniors, and the use of existing technology into overdrive. Telehealth conferences and video chats via smartphones, … Continue reading “Senior Age Tech”
Connecting the human brain to do things wirelessly
Connecting the human brain to do things wirelessly Establishing a wireless connection between a human brain and a computer sounds like the plot of a science fiction story. But this was actually done by a research team from the BrainGate consortium, a U.S.-based organization that develops and tests medical devices for people with neurological disease, … Continue reading “Connecting the human brain to do things wirelessly”