aging in place
Seniors want to age in place. How do homes need to adapt?
A new app allows seniors enrolled in the Lively Health & Safety offering to access in-home support services through Apple's wearable.
The service helps seniors maneuver their care in a virtual setting, an increasingly common way to receive healthcare now during the pandemic.
The Amazon Alexa Care Hub connects a senior's personal assistant device to a caretaker's mobile app, and includes activity alerts, emergency contacts and other communications features.
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Stony Brook University experts describe key design points for a successful in-home senior-health-monitoring system, and their efforts to develop such a tool.
The company, known for its ElliQ countertop AI device for seniors, is also working on personal assistant software for cars and other use cases.
The remote care tools are also helping tackle problems of loneliness with virtual group programs.
The Best Buy subsidiary has also been hit by a class action suit due to an unspecified defect with the device's fall detection features.