aging in place

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• Active adult retirement living concept turns 50

  
  RetirementRevised — Authority: 123
  The concept of active adult living just turned 50, with the anniversary of Sun City’s opening in Arizona on New Year’s day in 1960. NPR notes the anniversary with a look today at Del Webb’s  concept of retirement living is faring.Since those days, developers have updated the retirement living concept to ...
  6 hours ago

• Ten Tech Market Wishes for 2010

  
  Aging In Place Technology Watch — Authority: 425
  For those of you still staring at your computer screen in 2009, I just have one (!) more thing to say. Okay, well maybe 10 things. Here are my wishes for the tech market that has, but has not yet fully realized, the potential to better serve baby boomers and seniors in 2010. 1. Large vendors will be transparent ...
  5 days ago

• What to do in 2010 with the tech trends from 2009?

  
  Aging In Place Technology Watch — Authority: 425
  There are multiple ways to view the technology market for aging in place -- in the 2009 Market Overview , relevance is described as matching stages of frailty, and products are categorized by role in successful aging. Recently we took a look at life stage decision-points and how they trigger a need or desire for a ...
  1 week ago

• For U.S. Caregivers, Many Changes

  
  Women's Voices For Change — Authority: 478
  The National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP have just released a new report about caregivers in the United States, an update of the last one issued in 2004. In [...]
  1 week ago

• New Product Watch: Grab Bars in Plain Sight:

  
  Kitchen Design Notes — Authority: 112
  Grab bars or Safety Bars, what ever you call them, when you think of grab bars, what comes to mind? Utilitarian? Ugly, even? Well the folks at Health Craft Products came out with a new line called the Invisia Collection. The Invisia™ Collection is based on a simple concept; GRAB BARS SHOULD NOT LOOK LIKE GRAB ...
  1 week ago

• Aging in Place Technology Watch December Newsletter

  
  Aging In Place Technology Watch — Authority: 425
  End of a busy year -- lets rest and get ready for 2010.  Having pinged and ponged around North America these past few months, I am happy to be sitting still. its a good time to reflect  and think. I am reminded of the Washington Times article that kicked off 2009 in January: Boomers Power Up by Aging in Place . No ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2009 Spawned Ten Aging in Place Trends to Watch in 2010

  
  Aging In Place Technology Watch — Authority: 425
  Its the end of the year and time for that wrap-up of the indicators from 2009 that will drive trends for 2010 -- what it all means -- more analysis on another day. 1. Location-aware tech enables more info, greater safety.  GPS became even more useful in 2009. Verizon replaced its Chaperone service with Family ...
  2 weeks ago

• Marketing and selling Technology for Aging in Place

  
  Aging In Place Technology Watch — Authority: 425
  Time for an update -- more surveys, more vendors. I just updated the Aging in Place Technology Market Overview to incorporate other example vendors and links to studies about seniors and technology. This is going to be a regular task -- lately I have stumbled across a plethora of surveys from MetLifes Mature ...
  2 weeks ago

• Adding An Elevator To Your Home

  
  CVN Video — Authority: 141
  As baby boomers are entering retirement, more people are trying to make their homes work for them. Instead of moving to a smaller home or even moving into a retirement home, people in their 30s, 40s and 50s are following a trend called “aging-in-place.” They are taking their home renovation projects or gut rehab, ...
  3 weeks ago

• The nirvana of aging in place and other age-related reality disconnects

  
  Aging In Place Technology Watch — Authority: 425
  It seems as though there is a seasonal cluster to everything -- conferences (spring and fall), concerts (fall through spring), and... communication about surveys and studies. During the fall of studies announcements, weve seen some interesting and sometimes ironic juxtapositions: Working. Turns out were healthier ...
  3 weeks ago

• Introducing -- new blogger -- Liz Boehm of Forrester Research!

  
  Aging In Place Technology Watch — Authority: 425
  Adding an expert to this blog! I am so excited -- Liz Boehm, Principal Analyst extroardinaire at Forrester Research , would like to contribute her insights on aging in place and I am so pleased to have her write and to introduce her to readers.  Ill let her explain it herself -- why writing about this matters to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gifts -- Aging in Place and Related

  
  Aging In Place Technology Watch — Authority: 425
  The planes are becoming full of holiday travelers... At Thanksgiving time, I wrote a blog post about visits with aging family members -- and being on the lookout to see if they need help remaining independent.  In that post, there were links to videophones, eBook devices, computers with cameras, and a variety of ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Boomers Want from Technology 2009 and other aging theories

  
  Aging In Place Technology Watch — Authority: 425
  Microsoft and AARP -- boomers and technology. Yesterdays New York Times Bits blog summarized a study dated October, 2009 -- funded by Microsoft and AARP and conducted through 60 dinner interviews in four cities of boomers age 50-60.  The comments posted on the NY Times website are more revealing (and scathing) ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Business of Aging -- Ontario Innovation Summit

  
  Aging In Place Technology Watch — Authority: 425
  The Business of Aging -- or Aging and Implications? Just came back from a stimulating conference in a delightful and sophisticated city -- Toronto. Sponsored by the Government of Ontario and the MaRS Discovery District , this conference was titled The Business of Aging. However, it was less about business , much ...
  4 weeks ago

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