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

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Medical grade wearables for data collection, and. Medical alert/personal emergency response systems for safety. Here, older patients may, ironically and impactfully, be in the vanguard of the first patients who adopt and scale wearable tech to manage medical care. Continuous diabetes wearables. Sleep trackers.

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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). That is, devices that look more medical or hospital-purposed would be less desirable to use at-home and in real (non-inpatient or institutional) life. Over one-half of older people have adopted assistive or health-related technologies at home.

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

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Where we physically lived in 2020 transformed into sites for the many daily verbs in our lives: working, learning, praying, cooking/baking/dining, exercising, and indeed, self-caring for wellness and medical care. Keep in mind that as our homes evolve into a major place for us to make health, this is the consumer-demand side in health care.