Waterlily, a startup that aims to predict long-term care needs using artificial intelligence, secured $7 million in seed funding.
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Designed by doctors for doctors -- produced impractical or poorly adopted offerings.
About the 2 million people over 55 who are unemployed.
Identifies multiple video chat alternatives -- with, extending, and without a computer.
Barriers cited: privacy and security concerns, licensing and credentialing, connectivity, and questions about the regulatory approach.
The lean start-up process -- a smaller role for VCs -- for Internet companies.
Now that boomers are online, how do they use the Net on behalf of their own health?
A review of a paperback book that can help seniors get started using a range of technologies.
A plethora of programs (not yet funded) to protect seniors.
No mention of any tech, including tech for remote monitoring.
Linked Senior, the first audio entertainment system for the elderly.
BBC study of 11,430 people concludes brain training games do not produce skills more transferrable to improving cognitive fitness than web-browing.
More but still not big: online prescribing represents 12% of prescriptions.
Joseph Coughlin (AgeLab) writes about design considerations for products that will accommodate the 'me' baby boomer generation.
As the Japanese population ages (25% over age 65), older workers are in the workforce.
"If a technology ever emerges to cure the inconvenience of getting old, it’ll catch on in Japan, where a gadget-crazy population is aging rapidly."
Aging Well center in Clearwater -- is this the new descriptor and model for Senior Centers?
Boomer entrepreneurs dominate the startup world -- as they did in every other domain.
Health IT-related savings generated over a 10 year period.
Well, speaking of seniors going online -- looks like there's a tech GOAL now.
One indicator of how seniors do learning to use computers is how they regard the future. If they’re positive, they’re more apt to make the transition.