Aging and Health Tech Watch

Older adults are clearly more tech proficient today… On the positive side, data sources show that older adults are more proficient today than in years past – why? Because of necessity.  Consider smartphones and enabling apps, software like FaceTime, social media tech, TV remotes. It is difficult to function at all without these skills.  They can be discovere...

Worth a try – ask a question with a quantifiable result.  It seems we have ‘progressed’ from the days of a list of links when asking Google a question.  Now we get an ‘AI result’ – that is termed an ‘AI overview.’ How about what percent of people aged 75+ own smartphones? Simple enough. The answer – 31% in ‘foundational benchmarks’.  Ah, but those were from...

Startups targeting the older adult market segments continue to emerge.  The oldest baby boomer has reached age 80 and many will live well past that age. Reports are emerging that assess...

The new Senate report signals fear and caution…Released last week, the report, Artificial Intelligence and Older Adults, cites worrisome statistics about fraud and older adults (aged 60 and older), climbing to $2.4 billion by 2024. Examples...

Back in the day – 2009.  Seems like, uh, 17 years ago.  Long before the arrival of AI. Long before smartphone ownership by seniors took off.