The oldest baby boomers turn 80 in less than a year, and the senior housing market is moving from glut to shortage.
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The NY Times New Old Age discusses making e-mail more accessible.
Not ADLS (Activities of daily living), but ODLs (Observations of daily living).
Lowest paid, more of them needed, unassisted by any monitoring technology.
No incentives for prevention. Empty beds mean lost revenue.
Benefits of mind exercises as useful, though underused, for those with cognitive impairments.
By 2007, number of 55+ living in adult-only communities still low -- grew from 2% to 3%.
Older adults told that older adults do poorly, indeed do more poorly on memory test than those not told.
The boomers offer advertisers “an audience that has assets, not allowances."
This also applys to care for and about seniors.
Consumers interested in PHR; seniors very interested in home monitoring.
Helping vision-impaired seniors access Internet
Technology changes everything -- not always correctly.
Online doctors visits -- company is called American Well.
Planning for a senior center boomers will visit.
Apparently odds are if grandmother is in her 70's, the answer is yes.
In tough times, seniors are not moving, looking for senior-friendly community attributes.
WSJ notes GE/Intel Partnership, mentions investment in QuietCare.
Cleveland Clinic and Microsoft HealthVault in pilot.
Life outside of a nursing home is feasible with help from technology.