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Copying what works to reduce healthcare costs
If, as a country, we cared about improving the ratio of quality to costs in our healthcare system, why wouldn’t we: Look for examples of things that already “work”, either in the USA or abroad; and...
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Crowdfunding done right: Scanadu’s tricorder
I’ve been excited about the potential of crowdfunding for quite a while (here and here). The campaign that launched this morning on Indiegogo by Scanadu (developing a Tricorder) is a good example of a...
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Aging “gray tsunami”: challenge or opportunity?
I have been doing a lot of work over the last year or two on projects that relate to our growing elderly population, and the seductive idea that novel technology may somehow make the life of the aging...
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What if tech really could take 20 years off your age?
Functional ability declines with age. Can technology slow down the decline? My favorite question when I meet someone with an idea for a new venture is: “what problem are we trying to solve?“ Recently,...
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Wanted: ways to age better, and people interested in them
Some colleagues and I are collaborating to identify, trial and review ways that technology can help our parents, and our patients (and us) experience a more vital and exciting life as they age. Learn...
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Solving the problem of falling in the shower for the elderly
Over at Tech-enhanced Life we are having an interesting virtual brainstorming session on ways to solve a particular scary problem that faces some of the elderly. We could use inputs from some more...
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Financial abuse of seniors. Perception and reality diverge?
Published an article this week at Techenhanced Life about financial fraud of seniors, and a survey we ran recently that showed most seniors don’t perceive this to be an issue that worries them. Read it...
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Mentoring Lean healthcare startups @ UCSF. Fascinating.
I am a mentor at present in Steve Blanks course at UCSF on lean startup methodology for healthcare startups. It’s fascinating to see the methodology being deployed simultaneously across a whole cohort...
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What do seniors worry about?
Over at Tech-enhanced Life we are trying to build a co-creation community to improve the quality of life of us all as we age. And help the families of seniors “worry less”. We think the place to start...
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Co-creation and aging
Last month I gave a talk on co-creation and the future of aging at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. You can view the entire talk below. It’s about the intersection of several megatrends: the...
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Novel co-creation community: Longevity Collective
I am going to be giving a talk on the progress we have made on our co-creation community focused on improving the quality of life as we age on Sept 25th in San Francisco. Here are some details. It’s...
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Activity-tracking Sensor System: Older Adults Home Alone
Mary Hulme (a geriatric consultant and dementia care specialist) and I just published a non-fiction e-Book (on “Activity-tracking Home Sensor Systems“). If you are at all interested in the topic, we...
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Keeping Aging Parents Safe
Mary Hulme and I gave a talk last week about our eBook on Activity-tracking Home Sensor Systems at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. You can listen and watch it below. And if you read on you can...
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New Technology for Older Adults: Interview
San Francisco radio station KALW recently aired this short interview with me, on New Technology for Older Adults. You can listen to it here:...
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Older Adults Ideating, Evaluating, Exploring
Over at Tech-enhanced Life, we just published the results from the first 18 months of our novel Longevity Explorer community. The writeup describes our explorer community successfully exploring unmet...
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