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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

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Medical alert/personal emergency response systems for safety. Sleep trackers. Wrist-worn health. Smart jewelry, such as rings and necklaces. Dementia zone trackers. Medical grade wearables for data collection, and.

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Most Older People Want to Age in Place and Are Adopting Technologies At Home To Do So

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personal emergency response systems/PERS). families have prepared, and, “A future Congress and White House will be forced within the next few years to address funding for the rapidly depleting Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust fund,” and other benefits. memory loss).

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

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Tech’s for gait evaluation and fall detection, more streamlined personal emergency response systems, and smartphones and apps designed with older peoples’ use cases in mind proliferated CES 2021.