WASHINGTON, Dec. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- To further the discussion on how technology and innovation impact the lives of people 50-plus, AARP today reveals its lineup of CES presentations addressing relevant trends from autonomous vehicles to intergenerational technology.
SAN DIEGO – December 20, 2016 – GreatCall Inc., the leader in connected health for active aging, has acquired Healthsense, the leading provider of passive remote monitoring services for the senior care continuum. The acquisition greatly expands GreatCall’s portfolio of connected health services for senior living and healthcare.
We buy many insurances – just in case. Car, homeowners, apartment, flood, personal liability – all are hedges against the unknown and unwanted. Seeing a business opportunity, insurers created a long-term care insurance market for a benefit the customer might not need for another 25 years. We can buy a service contract to cover repairs of our appliances. Yet so it continues that when we purchase technology, carrier, or software services, the offering changes ever more quickly -- and our technology becomes obsolete. So we toss the products (and services) into the soon-forgotten gadget graveyard with 135 million mobile phones discarded in 2010 alone -- the last date for which there are EPA statistics.
True Link Financial, the leading financial services provider for seniors, today announced the completion of a $3.6 million round of funding with participation from Kapor Capital, Initialized Capital, Symmetrical Ventures, and the Ziegler Link-Age Longevity Fund, LP. This investment brings True Link’s cumulative funding to $7 million in equity and venture debt since the company’s launch in 2012.
In a week where polls were so wrong, predictive science may be shaken. Watching pollsters apologize this week for missing the obvious, folks wonder if the polling process has flaws. Pew Research concluded: most pollsters 'underestimated' support for the eventual winner. Duh. Were these polls out of whack due to 'nonresponse bias'-- that certain types of people don’t respond to surveys? Are non-responders a 'type' or were they were becoming grumpy at the phone's frequent ringing, listening to the hum of the robocaller connections to live pollsters? And if so much money was spent on conducting polls and research that did not predict the outcome, how about polling and surveys that track and predict technology uptake, particularly in the much-hyped category of digital health?
