| | The Glowing Older Podcast Continues the Journey I'm excited to announce that Glowing Older, my weekly business podcast featuring experts in senior living, is celebrating its one-year anniversary. We wrapped up Season 5 (50 episodes!)and are digging into season 6. I’m so proud of the industry leaders we have interviewed in the past. Our in-depth conversations have delved into the many innovations that will shape the future. There is a sea change happening in the senior living industry, and Glowing Older is, and will continue to be, at the forefront. | | |
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| | New Incident Alerting and Fall Detection Technologies Solve Industry Pain Points Senior housing needs a system that can alert staff to potential resident falls or incidents without requiring the resident to wear a pendant, pull a cord, or push a button. It's time to get in front of technology in senior living and implement devices and systems that address our current and growing needs for service, care, and communications. | | |
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| | Microsoft Launches Tech for Social Impact for Elderly Care By Leila Hawkins Microsoft Tech for Social Impact, the tech giant's division offering tools for nonprofit organizations, has announced it is expanding to include aged care nonprofits around the world. This means that nonprofit organizations helping elderly residents in nursing homes or with other daily support will now be eligible for technology grants and discounts of up to 75%, as well as training and capacity building to help with digital transformation... | | |
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| | What Design for Aging Gets Horribly Wrong By Riley Gibson Ten thousand people are turning 65 every day in the United States, and all boomers will be 65 by 2030, but the realities of life after 65 often look far richer and more diverse than our cultural stereotypes would suggest. Older adults are living longer, and they have big and dynamic goals and aspirations. They are starting new businesses, adopting new tech, and are more likely to try new things... | | |
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| | Your Messaging to Older Audiences Is Outdated By Hal Hershfield and Laura Carstensen Given a rapidly aging population, effective messaging to older people holds national importance for public health as well as marketing of goods and services. Older people make up an incredibly diverse demographic that varies in terms of physical and cognitive ability, economic power, and social connection, and market segmentation based on age is becoming futile. These messengers should instead focus on appealing to varying time horizons based on subjective age and perceived time left in life... | | |
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| | Demand for Senior Living Impossible to Meet; Hmm . . . By Steve Moran Believing that demand will soon outstrip supply is so dangerous for the senior living industry. It suggests that we don’t need to evolve; that we do not need to get creative to increase demand. Six or seven years ago, there was this frenzy of excitement about memory care. There was a general belief that the need was so great it would be impossible to build enough memory care communities to meet the needs... | | |
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