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10 startups to bring digital health to seniors
By Stephanie Baum (original on MedCityNews.com) Seniors tend to be marginalized when it comes to digital health. Given the fact that AARP’s membership starts at 5o, its membership base spans a wide...
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Apple to enter Home Automation market?
Apple, Home Automation & Smart Aging by Stealth guest article by Joseph F Coughlin, Director of the MIT AgeLab The word on the street is that Apple is set to announce a major foray into home...
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How Wearable Technology Could Save Our Health
Article and Infographic by CheapNurseDegrees.com Wearable Technology – Helping Your Doctor Help You You might have heard the aggressive term “glasshole,” which unaffectionately refers to people who...
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Top Home Tech for Seniors [INFOGRAPHIC]
infographic courtesy of Home Access Products. With innovations in health care, medicine, and nutrition, it’s no surprise that Americans are getting older. By 2030, nearly 20% of Americans will be over...
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What Quadriplegics can do with an iPhone or iPad
EDITOR: 9 Surprising Things Quadriplegics can do with an iPhone or iPad, by Mauricio Meza, is republished here with permission. It shows how Tecla gives iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android access to...
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Make Remote Monitoring Simple
Evermind has a cool idea and product that in my mind can make remote monitoring simple and less intrusive, tracking deviations from everyday activities such as making coffee, watching TV, or turning on...
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FUTURE OF YOU is a 27-min video by KQED and QuestScience about digital sensors, activity trackers and the Quantified Self movement. From wearable activity trackers to personal genetics, it explores the...
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The Elusive Smart Home
With the annual Consumer Electronics Show starting next week, the news media is filled with marketing hype about the elusive Smart Home market, which is nearly as misdirected today as it was in 1957....
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‘The Patient Will See You Now’ Envisions New Era
‘The Patient Will See You Now’ is a new book by Dr. Eric Topol that envisions a New Era in healthcare where we consumers take more responsibility for our own health and wellness and have the tools to...
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How to Make a Smart Bed for your Smart Bedroom
Here’s you can make a smart bed for your smart bedroom. Because good sleep so closely tied to good health, I’ve posted dozens of articles about sleep, including many about technology and how...
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Caretakers harness the Internet of Things
What Caretakers Can Do RIGHT NOW to Harness the Power of the Internet of Things By Beth Kelly Social technology and home automation have moved upstream. According to the Pew Research Center’s Internet...
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Sleep Technology use by Seniors
Today’s guest post on Sleep Technology use by seniors is written by Barry Birkett and first appeared in Senior Care Corner. A Good Night Sleep and Our Seniors: Can Technology Help Them Meet? Sleep is...
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How Technology is Changing Home Security
By Janet Miller, Yoga Instructor, Nutritionist, and Work at Home Mom EDITOR: Janet wrote the following article for Huffington Post (see original), presented here with my additional insights and...
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Digital Health at CES 2016
EDITOR: The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is one of the largest trade shows and conferences in the world, with well over 150,000 attendees, including more than 30,000 international attendees from...
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Tribute to Steve Jobs (1955-2011), iPhone 4S and iPad 2
EDITOR: This 2011 article is being republished in support of CNN’s documentary, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, which aired the first week of 2016. With his vision, marketing savvy, attention to...
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New technologies to prevent senior injuries at home
By Daniel Lewis Airbags for Pedestrians There’s no doubt that people are living longer now than ever before. That’s largely because of advancements in medicine and technology, and these advancements...
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The Smart Home Mess
I often write about Smart Home technologies that can help seniors or people with disabilities live independently and safely at home, but I also criticize the media and marketers for their excessive...
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Medical Alert Systems
Reviews.com recently published a review of The Best Medical Alert Systems, and they gave me permission to repost it here as long as I met their requirements. Three out of our four final contenders...
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Blitab Braille Tablet for the Blind – Is it needed?
As someone who has promoted the Universal Design concept for decades, I was taken back by a Futurism video I saw on the Blitab braille tablet. It is billed as “The World’s First Tablet for the Blind”,...
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Top Technology Innovations All Seniors Should Have
Guest article by Helen Smith The number of adults over 60 using the Internet and related devices is continuing to grow, and according to a Pew Research survey, over half of all seniors now use the...
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