Mobile health technologies include apps, gadgets, and tech-enabled services such as sensor-based activity trackers, wearable patches, and personal health devices. By improving self-care, all of these offer potential benefits to providers, payers, and consumers. Investors and inventors, spurred by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), are eager to serve the growing interest in these technologies, and a prime target market is[Read More…]
Marketing is becoming more and more digital. And digital marketing is becoming more and more mobile as companies note the prominence of smartphones in consumers’ lives. Trouble is, the US baby boomer generation—still a large cohort, and with an outsized portion of total purchasing power—has a far-below-average rate of smartphone adoption. A new eMarketer report, “Running the Risk of Leaving[Read More…]
The latest creation from Aldebaran, Pepper is the first humanoid robot designed to live with humans. At the risk of disappointing you, he doesn’t clean, doesn’t cook and doesn’t have super powers… Pepper is a social robot able to converse with you, recognize and react to your emotions, move and live autonomously. Engaging and friendly, Pepper is much more than[Read More…]
The Genworth R70i Aging Experience is designed for Americans in order to help enhance empathy, spark a national conversation about aging issues, and dispel the myths around long term care. For example, it is often incorrectly assumed that Medicare and other supplemental insurance policies will take care of an aging person’s needs as well as protect their hard-earned assets. The Genworth R70i Aging[Read More…]
GreatCall Inc., the leader in creating usable technology for active aging, brings family caregivers peace of mind and older adults a new level of empowerment by combining the health benefits of an activity tracker with the safety advantages of a mobile emergency response service. The introduction of the Lively Wearable by GreatCall is the first step in the development of[Read More…]
Utilising the same technology as iPads, the Elsi Smart Floor is a monitoring and alarm system made up of several small pads which are placed on top of the flooring at a residential facility or a client’s home. The idea is for the Elsi Smart Floor to monitor the movements of clients and staff members who move along it, so[Read More…]
SILVER project searches for new, innovative ways to acquire public sector health services by utilizing a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) process. The goal is to find new technologies to assist the elderly enabling them to continue living independently at home. With mobile assistant robot LEA the elderly can enjoy homelife even if they have physical or cognitive disabilities. By the summer[Read More…]
Tablets for Seniors vring olrder americans into the digital age Mobile devices have opened up opportunities people could only imagine 15 years ago. But the gadgets and apps that let people access information and communicate with loved ones around the globe aren’t always intuitive, especially for people without much experience using new technology. There are multiple companies that look to[Read More…]
Mobile health technologies include apps, gadgets, and tech-enabled services such as sensor-based activity trackers, wearable patches, and personal health devices. By improving self-care, all of these offer potential benefits to providers, payers, and consumers. Investors and inventors, spurred by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), are eager to serve the growing interest in these technologies, and a prime target market is[Read More…]
The project ENRICHME “Enabling Robot and assisted living environment for Independent Care and Health Monitoring of the Elderly“, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme, is a pioneering project in that it will be testing technologies for supporting elderly people with Mild Cognitive Impairments in the long-term and in their living environment. It addresses the progressive decline of cognitive capacity in[Read More…]
