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Fukada spent nearly a year conducting interviews in Tokyo to pursue this assignment for STAT, which was produced with the help of a grant from the \u003ca href=\"https://pulitzercenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pulitzer Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Many of us have aging parents now, or will be getting up there ourselves by 2060. Will the U.S. health care system be able to cope with the gray tide? Where do we look for a glimpse or our aged future?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Japan, it turns out, might just be us, as we will be in 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The country has the largest percentage of older people in the world, with 27.3 percent of its citizens 65 years and older. There, necessity might be just the be mother of invention when it comes to approaches to elder care. In this special report, we take a look at how Japan is marrying its demographic shifts with its love of technology to find a way forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"//content.jwplatform.com/players/yWvbwAC1-jEuQjxp9.html\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Bot to Watch Over Me\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palro works for free every day and he knows no fatigue. Always cheerful, he wears many hats: dancer, exercise instructor, comedian, and fortune teller. But best of all, his patience never runs thin, no matter how many times seniors request the same things. It helps that he is a robot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Flos Higashi-kojiya Senior Care Facility in Tokyo, seniors can keep themselves entertained with various recreational programs, such as crafts, karaoke, and bingo. But one program — called “Let’s play with Palro!” — has been gaining popularity lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robots are still expensive. To help bring more robots to the elder care system, the Japanese government budgeted a 5.2 billion yen subsidy ($47.3 million) in 2015. And some Japanese are realizing that a robot is just about the best purchase they can make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Virtually able\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its average life expectancy was the highest in the world, at 83.7 years (86.8 for women and 80.5 for men) in 2015, according to the WHO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what’s the point of living longer if you are not happy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenta Toshima has an idea about that. Happiness can be found on a virtual journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toshima is a therapist in Tokyo, and he’s spent most of his savings to travel the world, so that he can bring far-off lands back to his elderly patients.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"//content.jwplatform.com/players/LFAnUODv-jEuQjxp9.html\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will these two technologies make a dent in Japan’s aging problem? It’s hard to say at the moment. What is clear is that super-aging will continue to rise as a major social issue without solution in Japan. And if it doesn’t come up with novel solutions, how will the rest of the aging world?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/02/05/aging-japan-robots-virtual-reality/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story\u003c/a> was originally published by STAT, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Journalist Shiho Fukada documents how the Japanese are experimenting with technology to help citizens live longer and healthier. 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There, necessity might be just the be mother of invention when it comes to approaches to elder care. In this special report, we take a look at how Japan is marrying its demographic shifts with its love of technology to find a way forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"//content.jwplatform.com/players/yWvbwAC1-jEuQjxp9.html\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Bot to Watch Over Me\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palro works for free every day and he knows no fatigue. Always cheerful, he wears many hats: dancer, exercise instructor, comedian, and fortune teller. But best of all, his patience never runs thin, no matter how many times seniors request the same things. 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And if it doesn’t come up with novel solutions, how will the rest of the aging world?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/02/05/aging-japan-robots-virtual-reality/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story\u003c/a> was originally published by STAT, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/futureofyou/439285/watch-japan-uses-robots-to-care-for-the-elderly","authors":["byline_futureofyou_439285"],"categories":["futureofyou_1062","futureofyou_1"],"tags":["futureofyou_1009","futureofyou_80","futureofyou_722","futureofyou_643"],"featImg":"futureofyou_439330","label":"futureofyou"},"futureofyou_435417":{"type":"posts","id":"futureofyou_435417","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"futureofyou","id":"435417","score":null,"sort":[1511190023000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dying-from-a-fall-is-top-danger-for-seniors-tech-devices-may-help","title":"Preventing Seniors From Falling is Going to Be a Huge Market","publishDate":1511190023,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Future of You | KQED Science","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published Sept. 20, 2017.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Janis Bordeaux lost her dad to a fall this summer. John wasn't frail. At 84, he was still the kind of man who never stopped building and making things. The summer before his fall, he was sanding the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the following summer, John's health had declined. He was having problems with his heart and his weight, and he was taking 12 medications every day. He had no history of falls, but as Bordeaux watched her dad grow weaker, she became more and more worried that he could stumble or slip and hurt himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'One in four older adults falls every year, and less than half actually tell their doctors about it.'\u003ccite>Sanjay Khurana, AARP\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When her parents, who also live in Berkeley, decided to spend the summer at their second home on the New Jersey shore, John suffered his first fall. He wasn’t seriously injured, but a few days later, he fell again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like falls are the thing that will take you out nowadays, because pharmaceuticals are extending your life into what seems like an unnatural range,” Bordeaux reflects. “That could just be someone trying to make peace with their dad dying from something that seemed preventable. But on the other hand, he was getting so weak that a fall was bound to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the second fall that killed her dad. Or the third. Bordeaux’s dad fell four times that week. The last two falls happened on the same day. He died shortly after.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"right\">\u003cstrong>Common Sense Fall Prevention\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Talk to your doctor about symptoms\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Adjust medications, if necessary\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Install better lighting, remove throw rugs, and install handrails\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Strengthen leg muscles and improve balance with exercise programs such as Tai Chi\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The saddest part is that, statistically speaking, John's story is so common. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/features/falls-prevention-day/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More than half \u003c/a>of all elderly falls happen in the familiar surroundings of home. There are often warning signs well in advance, such as muscle weakness or gait imbalance. When your muscles are weak, it’s hard to stop yourself mid-fall. And most older adults who have fallen, or feel unsteady on their feet, don’t tell their doctors about it, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advice on how to prevent these traumatic falls has not changed much over the years. Experts say seniors who are unstable on their feet should invest in some easy home renovations to minimize slipping or tripping, such as better lighting, fewer rugs and more handrails. It’s important to talk to your doctor about your symptoms and, if needed, have your medications adjusted. The National Council on Aging \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/falls-prevention/falls-prevention-programs-for-older-adults/\">recommends\u003c/a> several evidence-based fall-prevention exercise programs for seniors, including Tai Chi, which is proven to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/resources/tai-ji-quan-moving-better-balance-program-information-guidance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increase balance\u003c/a> and strengthen leg muscles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s pretty much it. As any concerned caregiver who has Googled “how to prevent senior falls” on behalf of a loved one is aware, the preponderance of \u003ca href=\"http://stories.kera.org/the-broken-hip/2015/01/10/resources/\">helpful online resources\u003c/a> all \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/falls-prevention/preventing-falls-tips-for-older-adults-and-caregivers/take-control-of-your-health-6-steps-to-prevent-a-fall/\">cover similar ground\u003c/a> – annual physicals, eye exams, eating vitamin-rich foods, exercise and removal of safety hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Falling once makes you twice as likely to fall again –- not to mention the residual trauma for you and your family.'\u003ccite>Sanjay Khurana, AARP\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In spite of these efforts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6537a2.htm?s_cid=mm6537a2_w\">29 million Americans over 65\u003c/a> reported falling in 2014, with 7 million of those falls leading to injury, and direct medical costs of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/features/falls-prevention-day/index.html\">$31 billion annually\u003c/a>. Falling once makes you \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/falls/adultfalls.html\">twice as likely to fall again\u003c/a>. And falls are the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2016/p0922-older-adult-falls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leading cause of death\u003c/a> by injury for older adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cancer is hard. It’s a hard problem. Preventing falls should be easy. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it were easy, we would be doing a better job of it, says Sanjay Khurana, Vice President of Caregiving Products and Services at AARP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a society, we recognize that falling has a huge impact on degradation in quality of life,\" he says. \"One in four older adults falls every year, and less than half actually tell their doctors about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"yAzeujBaecSSTgdnfssLoFtABhupOTCN\"]The problem is not going away. Here in the U.S., 10,000 Baby Boomers turn 65 \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2010/12/29/baby-boomers-retire/\">\u003cem>every single day\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Which means that by the year 2030, the number of older Americans projected to fall each year will grow from 29 million to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6537a2.htm?s_cid=mm6537a2_w\">49 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole world is getting older -– fast. And those demographics are about to make this crisis into a calamity. A 2007 \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/ageing/publications/Falls_prevention7March.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the World Health Organization lays it on the line: “The economic and societal burden of falls will increase by epidemic proportions in all parts of the world over the next few decades.\" If countries, governments and communities don’t develop a coherent strategy to combat senior falls “in the immediate future,” the WHO projects the number of fall-related injuries will be 100 percent higher by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQlpDiXPZHQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Old-School Tech No More\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one thing none of the government reports and websites mention is technology. Which is odd, considering senior falls have always been associated with a certain personal medical technology still in widespread use today. It goes by different names, but the iconic brand is \u003ca href=\"http://lifecall.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LifeCall\u003c/a>, whose infamous 1980s TV advertisement -- \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQlpDiXPZHQ\">\"I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”-\u003c/a>- has launched a thousand punchlines. Not to mention inspired countless satires, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwd5nmWFzA0\">Urkel\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXrSDRnBm0E\">Pokémon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it works: You wear a pendant or a wristband that you push to call an emergency responder when you fall. When they pick up, you can talk to them through a speaker installed in your home (provided you’re close enough for them to hear you, and conscious enough to push the button).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed like a pretty impressive innovation when it was introduced in 1974. But now, we have the technology to do better, says the AARP’s Khurana. Way better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khurana has been keeping an eye on wearable and home-based sensors. Some can \u003ca href=\"http://www.emeraldforhome.com/\">\"see\" through walls\u003c/a> and discern whether an elderly person may be in distress, or allow you to \u003ca href=\"http://wellnest.care/\">check in on\u003c/a> your parent or grandparent remotely by reporting on where they are and whether they've been having trouble walking lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others can help you improve your balance with personalized exercises via \u003ca href=\"http://nymblscience.com/faq/#link_home\">smartphone sensing\u003c/a> (or an at-home \u003ca href=\"http://www.ishoebalance.com/index.php/ishoe-the-balance-company/en-pointe-scale/\">scale\u003c/a>), or \u003ca href=\"https://lunalights.org/\">light the way\u003c/a> to the bathroom at night – without requiring a verbal command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_435481\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-435481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"Wellnest's screen allows an elderly person or caregiver to track key health issues.\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-800x477.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-768x458.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-1020x608.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-1180x703.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-960x572.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-375x224.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-520x310.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wellnest's screen allows an elderly person or caregiver to track key health activities. \u003ccite>(Wellnest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Khurana has made it his mission to persuade industry there's a financial upside to investing in fall prevention. He's confident that when entrepreneurs and investors realize how big the market is –- AARP says $2.9 billion for safety monitoring and fall-prevention tech alone –- the rate of innovation will kick into high gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AARP did its part to goose the market this year with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fall-prevention-innovation-challenge-winners-announced-by-aarp-services-inc-unitedhealthcare-300473607.html\">Fall Prevention Innovation Challenge\u003c/a>, a worldwide product search with some serious prize money attached. The first-time partnership with OpenIDEO and UnitedHealthcare attracted 205 design ideas from 90 countries. The competition launched in February and concluded in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'As we age, we start changing our walking. For instance, we start taking shorter steps.'\u003ccite>Lise Pape, Walk With Path\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The $50,000 top prizewinner (which judges dubbed Most Viable Solution) was \u003ca href=\"https://lunalights.org/\">Luna Lights\u003c/a>, an automated lighting system that is activated when someone gets out of bed at night. It wirelessly lights the path along frequently traveled hallways toward, say, the bathroom or the kitchen. When the user gets back into bed, the lights snap off. Over time, cloud-based analytics compile habit data to signal to a caregiver that the elderly user may be spending extra time in the bathroom or wandering the house at night, which could suggest an underlying medical issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The competition’s $25,000 Most Promising Idea winner was \u003ca href=\"https://www.walkwithpath.com/path-feel\">Path Feel\u003c/a>, a smart insole that vibrates in several pressure points when the foot touches the ground. The idea is to help older adults (or people with neuropathy, Parkinson’s or multiple sclerosis) improve their balance in real time by helping them feel their feet on the floor. The company says it's aiming to launch the product in 2018. Its built-in gyroscopes and oscillometers transmit data on gait patterns to an app that physical therapists and caregivers can use to measure progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the road, all that data could give rise to a new way to map the gait characteristics of, say, a 65-year-old diabetic against a larger dataset of “healthy walkers,” which could eventually help create algorithms for being able to detect certain symptoms and contribute to developing new diagnostic methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we age, we start changing our walking,” says Lise Pape, founder of \u003ca href=\"UK-based\">Walk With Path\u003c/a>, the UK-based company that invented Path Feel. \"For instance, we start taking shorter steps. There’s indications in the literature that you can use walking to identify early onset Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, is already using predictive technology to reduce falls. A system made by \u003ca href=\"https://qventus.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Qventus\u003c/a> combines data from patients' electronic health records with call-light and bed-alarm data to alert nurses that the patient is at high risk of a fall. The staff can then implement additional monitoring, including the use of video, and intervene if the patient is going to attempt to stand. In April, Chief Nursing Officer Cheryl Reinking said the hospital saw a 39 percent decrease in falls over the first six months the system was in use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Missing Ingredient: Dignity \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason that more modern apps and gadgets aren’t on the market: When it comes to wearable tech, seniors are a challenging population to design for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of products we look at have major flaws,” says Richard Caro, a San Francisco-based scientist/inventor. “They’re basically designed with some 20-year-old audience in mind, not an 80-year-old audience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'While the [emergency-call] devices are pretty useful, they are mostly rather ugly. They look like you’ve escaped from the hospital.'\u003ccite>Richard Caro, Longevity Explorers\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Caro organizes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.techenhancedlife.com/content/longevity-explorers\">Longevity Explorers\u003c/a>, an online and in-person community of people over 70, who meet up to talk about aging and test out new senior tech gadgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The products typically fall into one of two categories, he says. Either they solve a problem users don’t think they have, or they solve a problem people do have, but the solutions are so poorly implemented they're not that usable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the products will come with instructions in tiny gray type or they’ll have buttons that don’t work well with shaky hands. On the other end of the spectrum, some products are so simple and dumbed down that they don’t offer the user interface and normal functionality people need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people buy them and don’t wear them,” says Caro. \"While the devices are pretty useful, they are mostly rather ugly. They look like you’ve escaped from the hospital.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanjay Khurana has heard those objections, too –- from his own mother, who lives in an independent living facility. He gave her an emergency pendant to wear, but she doesn’t like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I asked her, ‘Mom, why don’t you wear this?’ She goes, ‘I wouldn’t be caught dead with the device.’ Because it requires you to wear it around your neck, it signals to the rest of the world that you are in need of help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says design could make the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_435422\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-435422 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white.jpeg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-800x451.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-768x433.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-1020x575.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-1180x665.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-960x541.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-240x135.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-375x211.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-520x293.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man models the Wellnest smartwatch. \u003ccite>(Jonathan Ramaci/Wellnest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"If the same product could be designed with a little more dignity, you would wear them, right? Maybe if it was a better-designed pendant, or a wristwatch. A smartwatch could integrate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two companies are attempting just that. One is GreatCall, which makes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S8ug0Xl1pU\">Lively Wearable,\u003c/a> a fitness tracker that looks like a sport watch with only one button –- an emergency button. It syncs to a smartphone but only works in an emergency if you’re carrying your smartphone with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other one is \u003ca href=\"https://cl.ly/3K0r46251Y09\">Wellnest,\u003c/a> which\u003cem> is\u003c/em> a smartphone watch you dial by voice. It has built-in 4G LTE and you converse with it via an Amazon Alexa interface. It can guide you home, order an Uber for you, remind you to take your meds, and sense when you’ve fallen. It will notify your caregivers if you’ve missed your meds or have been slipping a lot as you walk. It also allows them to ping your location in an emergency. (Lively Wearable is already available; Wellnest is due out by the end of the year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, what about after you’ve fallen, but before you hit the floor? One prototype idea in the Fall Prevention Challenge was a Spanx-like pair of underwear with \u003ca href=\"https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/fall-prevention/ideas/upants-hip-protection-system\">built-in hip protectors\u003c/a> – and a motion sensor that calls an ambulance after a fall. In fact, the \"senior airbag\" concept abounds. One is a \"\u003ca href=\"http://activeprotective.com/\">smart belt\u003c/a>\" you attach around your waist that activates in milliseconds after a fall, theoretically before you hit the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, all this technology requires the elderly person to be willing to use it, which means acknowledging they are at risk. Marketing and design teams have a heavy lift to make fall prevention technology relevant to Baby Boomers, a generation distinguished more by rejecting aging than by accepting the limits it imposes.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"American seniors were injured from falling 7 million times in 2014. Companies have just started to develop wearable and home-based sensors to help prevent fall-related injuries.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1511374836,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":2367},"headData":{"title":"Preventing Seniors From Falling is Going to Be a Huge Market | KQED","description":"American seniors were injured from falling 7 million times in 2014. Companies have just started to develop wearable and home-based sensors to help prevent fall-related injuries.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Preventing Seniors From Falling is Going to Be a Huge Market","datePublished":"2017-11-20T15:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-22T18:20:36.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"435417 https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/?p=435417","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2017/11/20/dying-from-a-fall-is-top-danger-for-seniors-tech-devices-may-help/","disqusTitle":"Preventing Seniors From Falling is Going to Be a Huge Market","source":"Hope/Hype","path":"/futureofyou/435417/dying-from-a-fall-is-top-danger-for-seniors-tech-devices-may-help","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published Sept. 20, 2017.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Janis Bordeaux lost her dad to a fall this summer. John wasn't frail. At 84, he was still the kind of man who never stopped building and making things. The summer before his fall, he was sanding the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the following summer, John's health had declined. He was having problems with his heart and his weight, and he was taking 12 medications every day. He had no history of falls, but as Bordeaux watched her dad grow weaker, she became more and more worried that he could stumble or slip and hurt himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'One in four older adults falls every year, and less than half actually tell their doctors about it.'\u003ccite>Sanjay Khurana, AARP\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When her parents, who also live in Berkeley, decided to spend the summer at their second home on the New Jersey shore, John suffered his first fall. He wasn’t seriously injured, but a few days later, he fell again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like falls are the thing that will take you out nowadays, because pharmaceuticals are extending your life into what seems like an unnatural range,” Bordeaux reflects. “That could just be someone trying to make peace with their dad dying from something that seemed preventable. But on the other hand, he was getting so weak that a fall was bound to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the second fall that killed her dad. Or the third. Bordeaux’s dad fell four times that week. The last two falls happened on the same day. He died shortly after.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"right\">\u003cstrong>Common Sense Fall Prevention\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Talk to your doctor about symptoms\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Adjust medications, if necessary\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Install better lighting, remove throw rugs, and install handrails\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Strengthen leg muscles and improve balance with exercise programs such as Tai Chi\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The saddest part is that, statistically speaking, John's story is so common. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/features/falls-prevention-day/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More than half \u003c/a>of all elderly falls happen in the familiar surroundings of home. There are often warning signs well in advance, such as muscle weakness or gait imbalance. When your muscles are weak, it’s hard to stop yourself mid-fall. And most older adults who have fallen, or feel unsteady on their feet, don’t tell their doctors about it, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advice on how to prevent these traumatic falls has not changed much over the years. Experts say seniors who are unstable on their feet should invest in some easy home renovations to minimize slipping or tripping, such as better lighting, fewer rugs and more handrails. It’s important to talk to your doctor about your symptoms and, if needed, have your medications adjusted. The National Council on Aging \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/falls-prevention/falls-prevention-programs-for-older-adults/\">recommends\u003c/a> several evidence-based fall-prevention exercise programs for seniors, including Tai Chi, which is proven to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/resources/tai-ji-quan-moving-better-balance-program-information-guidance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increase balance\u003c/a> and strengthen leg muscles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s pretty much it. As any concerned caregiver who has Googled “how to prevent senior falls” on behalf of a loved one is aware, the preponderance of \u003ca href=\"http://stories.kera.org/the-broken-hip/2015/01/10/resources/\">helpful online resources\u003c/a> all \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/falls-prevention/preventing-falls-tips-for-older-adults-and-caregivers/take-control-of-your-health-6-steps-to-prevent-a-fall/\">cover similar ground\u003c/a> – annual physicals, eye exams, eating vitamin-rich foods, exercise and removal of safety hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Falling once makes you twice as likely to fall again –- not to mention the residual trauma for you and your family.'\u003ccite>Sanjay Khurana, AARP\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In spite of these efforts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6537a2.htm?s_cid=mm6537a2_w\">29 million Americans over 65\u003c/a> reported falling in 2014, with 7 million of those falls leading to injury, and direct medical costs of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/features/falls-prevention-day/index.html\">$31 billion annually\u003c/a>. Falling once makes you \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/falls/adultfalls.html\">twice as likely to fall again\u003c/a>. And falls are the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2016/p0922-older-adult-falls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leading cause of death\u003c/a> by injury for older adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cancer is hard. It’s a hard problem. Preventing falls should be easy. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it were easy, we would be doing a better job of it, says Sanjay Khurana, Vice President of Caregiving Products and Services at AARP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a society, we recognize that falling has a huge impact on degradation in quality of life,\" he says. \"One in four older adults falls every year, and less than half actually tell their doctors about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The problem is not going away. Here in the U.S., 10,000 Baby Boomers turn 65 \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2010/12/29/baby-boomers-retire/\">\u003cem>every single day\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Which means that by the year 2030, the number of older Americans projected to fall each year will grow from 29 million to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6537a2.htm?s_cid=mm6537a2_w\">49 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole world is getting older -– fast. And those demographics are about to make this crisis into a calamity. A 2007 \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/ageing/publications/Falls_prevention7March.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the World Health Organization lays it on the line: “The economic and societal burden of falls will increase by epidemic proportions in all parts of the world over the next few decades.\" If countries, governments and communities don’t develop a coherent strategy to combat senior falls “in the immediate future,” the WHO projects the number of fall-related injuries will be 100 percent higher by 2030.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/bQlpDiXPZHQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/bQlpDiXPZHQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Old-School Tech No More\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one thing none of the government reports and websites mention is technology. Which is odd, considering senior falls have always been associated with a certain personal medical technology still in widespread use today. It goes by different names, but the iconic brand is \u003ca href=\"http://lifecall.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LifeCall\u003c/a>, whose infamous 1980s TV advertisement -- \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQlpDiXPZHQ\">\"I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”-\u003c/a>- has launched a thousand punchlines. Not to mention inspired countless satires, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwd5nmWFzA0\">Urkel\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXrSDRnBm0E\">Pokémon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it works: You wear a pendant or a wristband that you push to call an emergency responder when you fall. When they pick up, you can talk to them through a speaker installed in your home (provided you’re close enough for them to hear you, and conscious enough to push the button).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed like a pretty impressive innovation when it was introduced in 1974. But now, we have the technology to do better, says the AARP’s Khurana. Way better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khurana has been keeping an eye on wearable and home-based sensors. Some can \u003ca href=\"http://www.emeraldforhome.com/\">\"see\" through walls\u003c/a> and discern whether an elderly person may be in distress, or allow you to \u003ca href=\"http://wellnest.care/\">check in on\u003c/a> your parent or grandparent remotely by reporting on where they are and whether they've been having trouble walking lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others can help you improve your balance with personalized exercises via \u003ca href=\"http://nymblscience.com/faq/#link_home\">smartphone sensing\u003c/a> (or an at-home \u003ca href=\"http://www.ishoebalance.com/index.php/ishoe-the-balance-company/en-pointe-scale/\">scale\u003c/a>), or \u003ca href=\"https://lunalights.org/\">light the way\u003c/a> to the bathroom at night – without requiring a verbal command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_435481\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-435481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"Wellnest's screen allows an elderly person or caregiver to track key health issues.\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-800x477.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-768x458.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-1020x608.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-1180x703.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-960x572.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-375x224.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest-520x310.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/Wellnest.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wellnest's screen allows an elderly person or caregiver to track key health activities. \u003ccite>(Wellnest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Khurana has made it his mission to persuade industry there's a financial upside to investing in fall prevention. He's confident that when entrepreneurs and investors realize how big the market is –- AARP says $2.9 billion for safety monitoring and fall-prevention tech alone –- the rate of innovation will kick into high gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AARP did its part to goose the market this year with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fall-prevention-innovation-challenge-winners-announced-by-aarp-services-inc-unitedhealthcare-300473607.html\">Fall Prevention Innovation Challenge\u003c/a>, a worldwide product search with some serious prize money attached. The first-time partnership with OpenIDEO and UnitedHealthcare attracted 205 design ideas from 90 countries. The competition launched in February and concluded in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'As we age, we start changing our walking. For instance, we start taking shorter steps.'\u003ccite>Lise Pape, Walk With Path\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The $50,000 top prizewinner (which judges dubbed Most Viable Solution) was \u003ca href=\"https://lunalights.org/\">Luna Lights\u003c/a>, an automated lighting system that is activated when someone gets out of bed at night. It wirelessly lights the path along frequently traveled hallways toward, say, the bathroom or the kitchen. When the user gets back into bed, the lights snap off. Over time, cloud-based analytics compile habit data to signal to a caregiver that the elderly user may be spending extra time in the bathroom or wandering the house at night, which could suggest an underlying medical issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The competition’s $25,000 Most Promising Idea winner was \u003ca href=\"https://www.walkwithpath.com/path-feel\">Path Feel\u003c/a>, a smart insole that vibrates in several pressure points when the foot touches the ground. The idea is to help older adults (or people with neuropathy, Parkinson’s or multiple sclerosis) improve their balance in real time by helping them feel their feet on the floor. The company says it's aiming to launch the product in 2018. Its built-in gyroscopes and oscillometers transmit data on gait patterns to an app that physical therapists and caregivers can use to measure progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the road, all that data could give rise to a new way to map the gait characteristics of, say, a 65-year-old diabetic against a larger dataset of “healthy walkers,” which could eventually help create algorithms for being able to detect certain symptoms and contribute to developing new diagnostic methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we age, we start changing our walking,” says Lise Pape, founder of \u003ca href=\"UK-based\">Walk With Path\u003c/a>, the UK-based company that invented Path Feel. \"For instance, we start taking shorter steps. There’s indications in the literature that you can use walking to identify early onset Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, is already using predictive technology to reduce falls. A system made by \u003ca href=\"https://qventus.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Qventus\u003c/a> combines data from patients' electronic health records with call-light and bed-alarm data to alert nurses that the patient is at high risk of a fall. The staff can then implement additional monitoring, including the use of video, and intervene if the patient is going to attempt to stand. In April, Chief Nursing Officer Cheryl Reinking said the hospital saw a 39 percent decrease in falls over the first six months the system was in use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Missing Ingredient: Dignity \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason that more modern apps and gadgets aren’t on the market: When it comes to wearable tech, seniors are a challenging population to design for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of products we look at have major flaws,” says Richard Caro, a San Francisco-based scientist/inventor. “They’re basically designed with some 20-year-old audience in mind, not an 80-year-old audience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'While the [emergency-call] devices are pretty useful, they are mostly rather ugly. They look like you’ve escaped from the hospital.'\u003ccite>Richard Caro, Longevity Explorers\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Caro organizes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.techenhancedlife.com/content/longevity-explorers\">Longevity Explorers\u003c/a>, an online and in-person community of people over 70, who meet up to talk about aging and test out new senior tech gadgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The products typically fall into one of two categories, he says. Either they solve a problem users don’t think they have, or they solve a problem people do have, but the solutions are so poorly implemented they're not that usable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the products will come with instructions in tiny gray type or they’ll have buttons that don’t work well with shaky hands. On the other end of the spectrum, some products are so simple and dumbed down that they don’t offer the user interface and normal functionality people need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people buy them and don’t wear them,” says Caro. \"While the devices are pretty useful, they are mostly rather ugly. They look like you’ve escaped from the hospital.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanjay Khurana has heard those objections, too –- from his own mother, who lives in an independent living facility. He gave her an emergency pendant to wear, but she doesn’t like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I asked her, ‘Mom, why don’t you wear this?’ She goes, ‘I wouldn’t be caught dead with the device.’ Because it requires you to wear it around your neck, it signals to the rest of the world that you are in need of help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says design could make the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_435422\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-435422 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white.jpeg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-800x451.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-768x433.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-1020x575.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-1180x665.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-960x541.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-240x135.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-375x211.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/mans-wrist-white-520x293.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man models the Wellnest smartwatch. \u003ccite>(Jonathan Ramaci/Wellnest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"If the same product could be designed with a little more dignity, you would wear them, right? Maybe if it was a better-designed pendant, or a wristwatch. A smartwatch could integrate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two companies are attempting just that. One is GreatCall, which makes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S8ug0Xl1pU\">Lively Wearable,\u003c/a> a fitness tracker that looks like a sport watch with only one button –- an emergency button. It syncs to a smartphone but only works in an emergency if you’re carrying your smartphone with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other one is \u003ca href=\"https://cl.ly/3K0r46251Y09\">Wellnest,\u003c/a> which\u003cem> is\u003c/em> a smartphone watch you dial by voice. It has built-in 4G LTE and you converse with it via an Amazon Alexa interface. It can guide you home, order an Uber for you, remind you to take your meds, and sense when you’ve fallen. It will notify your caregivers if you’ve missed your meds or have been slipping a lot as you walk. It also allows them to ping your location in an emergency. (Lively Wearable is already available; Wellnest is due out by the end of the year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, what about after you’ve fallen, but before you hit the floor? One prototype idea in the Fall Prevention Challenge was a Spanx-like pair of underwear with \u003ca href=\"https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/fall-prevention/ideas/upants-hip-protection-system\">built-in hip protectors\u003c/a> – and a motion sensor that calls an ambulance after a fall. In fact, the \"senior airbag\" concept abounds. One is a \"\u003ca href=\"http://activeprotective.com/\">smart belt\u003c/a>\" you attach around your waist that activates in milliseconds after a fall, theoretically before you hit the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, all this technology requires the elderly person to be willing to use it, which means acknowledging they are at risk. Marketing and design teams have a heavy lift to make fall prevention technology relevant to Baby Boomers, a generation distinguished more by rejecting aging than by accepting the limits it imposes.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/futureofyou/435417/dying-from-a-fall-is-top-danger-for-seniors-tech-devices-may-help","authors":["8664"],"categories":["futureofyou_1062","futureofyou_1"],"tags":["futureofyou_950","futureofyou_589","futureofyou_1008","futureofyou_1354","futureofyou_1275","futureofyou_1353","futureofyou_643"],"featImg":"futureofyou_435424","label":"source_futureofyou_435417"},"futureofyou_414656":{"type":"posts","id":"futureofyou_414656","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"futureofyou","id":"414656","score":null,"sort":[1507150800000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"up-to-40-percent-of-seniors-are-significantly-lonely-can-tech-help","title":"Isolation is Big Health Risk for Seniors. But There's Community Online","publishDate":1507150800,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Future of You | KQED Science","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>Originally published June 26, 2017\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Orazgul Tachmuradova, age 71, emigrated to the United States alone, about a decade ago. Learning to get around San Francisco wasn't easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“My eyes are not good, my hearing’s not good, my English is not good,” is how she puts it. Having grown up in a rural area, surrounded by family, she was “slowly dying of disconnection.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The iPad is like a genie -- Hello, Siri? Tell me this one!' \u003ccite>Orazgul Tachmuradova, 71\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“This world does not belong to me; I do not belong to this world,” she recalls feeling.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">But recently, things have been looking up, thanks to a new high-tech relationship.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The iPad is like a \u003cem>genie\u003c/em>,” she says. She mimes pressing a button: “Hello, Siri? Tell me this one!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Tachmuradova and Siri started conversing during a year-long pilot project, now coming to an end, at San Francisco’s \u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ca href=\"http://curryseniorcenter.org\">Curry Senior Center\u003c/a>. Seventeen s\u003c/span>eniors were given iPads, FitBits and digital scales to monitor their health, and to reduce isolation by teaching them how to socialize, learn and enjoy themselves online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> “When I started this program, I was reborn,” says Tachmuradova. “I am becoming alive! More and more now, we are busy. I don’t feel I am alone. I live alone without \u003ci>being\u003c/i> alone.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">All of the program’s seniors live alone, and most are very low-income.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“Some people felt isolated, technologically-wise, because they didn't know what other people were doing on the internet,” says Angela Di Martino, who teaches the weekly class on how to use the devices. “Now I think they feel a lot more comfortable because they have that knowledge.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I live alone without \u003ci>being\u003c/i> alone.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino devoted early lessons to finding trustworthy medical information on the web, emailing your doctor and checking lab results online. Her students have also been introduced to an array of social tech tools; some of the group’s favorite are FaceTime and Skype for video chatting and Messenger for sharing photos. Many in the group use their iPads to tune in the radio or podcasts, and one has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/MJofSanFran\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">her own YouTube channel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The last few classes have been devoted to iPad photography, so today everyone is editing their best shots. In one corner, Marilyn Chan and Shirley Smith keep leaning over to see what’s happening on each other’s screens. Chan is polishing up a selfie of the two of them making the most of Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day. Across the room, Linda Rospendowski, 68, is contemplating a photo of herself in a hot pink dress. But she has a problem: The photographer has chopped off the top of her head, and she's wondering if you can digitally repair hair. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“The bouffant—it has to be there,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>America: Getting Old\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As baby boomers head into their 60s and 70s, advocacy groups are now exploring the benefits of this kind of tech education for seniors. Prime candidates are elderly people who live in rural areas, are estranged or live far from family, or have health or mobility problems that make it difficult to get around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_414753\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 386px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-414753 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Rospendowski, 68, and Orazgul Tachmuradova, 71, work on editing their photos. \u003ccite>(Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Lisa Marsh Ryerson, president of the AARP Foundation, a charitable affiliate of the advocacy group for seniors, points out that 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day. But despite their numbers, baby boomers don’t always feel like they’re aging together. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“As many as 40 percent of adults who are 65 or older say that they experience significant loneliness,” says Ryerson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Loneliness isn’t quite the same thing as being alone, but both can influence health. “Loneliness is something that is subjective. It’s our own perception of our experiences,” says Ryerson. It is also one measure of distress. Isolation, on the other hand, is an objective metric, “based on the size of someone’s social network, the frequency of contact with their social network and their access to services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">[contextly_sidebar id=\"pJzqgRcGnSSnAs2omLf83MRF0ZoTRCKk\"]Isolation can cause health problems even for a person who feels perfectly satisfied with a small or distant network. (Imagine not knowing anyone nearby who can check on you when you’re ill.) Ryerson says isolation is often triggered by loss of hearing or mobility, a move to a new community or a partner’s death, and it’s especially common among those who are low-income or identify as a member of a marginalized group.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">To address the problem, the AARP Foundation recently launched \u003ca href=\"https://connect2affect.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Connect2Affect\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a resource portal for older adults and caregivers that encourages online engagement, and includes a \u003ca href=\"https://connect2affect.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/A-Profile-of-Social-Connectedness.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">study of social connectedness among people over age 62\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://aarptek.aarp.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">AARP Academy\u003c/span>\u003c/a> also offers free online tutorials for using smartphones, tablets or social media, and for conducting job searches on the internet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, the National Council on Aging completed its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/aging-mastery-program/\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">two-year tablet program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, similar to Curry’s. The result? “The more time [participants] were spending on the tablets, the stronger their social interactions, their emotional support, self-esteem,” says \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s4\">Susan Stiles, senior director of product development and strategy for the group. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Getting Seniors Connected\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Yet enticing people online isn’t always easy. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/05/17/technology-use-among-seniors/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">study \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">released in May by the Pew Research Center\u003c/span>, while mobile device use is climbing among seniors, still only about a third own a tablet, 42 percent own smartphones, and just over half have broadband at home. Only about a third use social media.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“There were some fears going into the project,” says Stiles of the NCOA program. “People did not necessarily think that a tablet computer had any relevancy for their lives. They had privacy concerns and were afraid of potentially being exposed to scams.” (Ditto the Curry class, where people asked pointed questions about putting credit card information on their iPad and worried about being unfairly charged when ordering photo prints online.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For the NCOA program, the trick was helping users find their personal killer app. For a former taxi driver now in his 90s, it was Google Maps. Stiles recalls a colleague asking the man to name some streets on his old route. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“She zoomed in on these streets and his eyes just lit up, \" Stiles says. \"And then he wanted to go everywhere in New York City.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For a former B-movie actress, the most alluring app was YouTube, where she found her old film clips.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Tablets seem to be a nice middle ground for those who are skeptical of full-sized computers. You can use voice commands instead of struggling with a mouse or keyboard; they fit neatly into a small living space like a senior apartment; and you can use them while sitting in your favorite comfy chair. “It doesn't feel like this weighty technology object,” says Stiles. “It really feels like a book.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Designing for Seniors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Pittsburgh-based Breezie, which sells tech solutions for seniors and \u003ca href=\"https://www.breezie.com/breezie-in-action/breezie-brings-online-benefits-to-seniors-in-florida/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">partnered with the NCOA on its program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, is trying to make Android-based devices even easier for new users by offering a service that simplifies a tablet’s interface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“If you went right now to a Best Buy and if you bought a tablet to give to a senior, there are 43 different settings you would want to change before you make it senior-friendly,”\u003cb> \u003c/b>says CEO and founder Jeh Kazimi. He means things that Breezie can pre-adjust, like brightness and volume, consolidating logins, and making the screen more forgiving if you accidentally put your thumb on it. The company is also trying to develop a way to cancel out hand tremor for people with Parkinson's disease, because uneven pressure can make the tablet think a user is swiping when they mean to click.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_415056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-415056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1020x804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1020x804.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-800x631.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-768x605.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1180x930.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-960x757.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-375x296.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-520x410.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaycee Springer, 65, polishes up her photo of the sun setting over San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Caregivers or Breezie staff can also curate each person’s desktop, like providing ready-made YouTube playlists for fans of jazz music or Muhammad Ali’s boxing matches. For an avid gardener, Kazimi says, they might install a few outdoorsy apps “that don’t show you ads every two minutes or ask you to upgrade every three minutes.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">But tablets aren’t a foolproof platform. Kazimi has seen seniors who need stickers to label the camera, volume and charging socket, because the devices can suddenly flip screen orientation, leaving confused people holding them upside down and wondering where the buttons are. Di Martino encountered some unexpected hurdles, too, “like a couple of the men in the class didn't know how to type.” She helped get people comfortable with the touchscreen by offering styluses, which are more accurate pointing tools than fingers. And she encouraged her students to feel OK about making mistakes. “Sometimes I tell them, ‘I don’t know what that button does. Let’s hit it,’” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Dip in Loneliness\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The seniors in the Curry program report different feelings about living alone—for example, Kaycee Springer enjoys it and is content using video chat to keep in touch with her daughters long-distance. But she does feel a bit socially crimped in the Tenderloin, where it doesn't always seem safe to walk around, especially at night. And she knows some of her elderly neighbors are extremely withdrawn. “There are people in my building, they just lay around and do absolutely nothing,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino has put together some preliminary stats from surveying participants at the program’s 6-month point. Almost all of the seniors said they used their iPad daily. As with the NCOA program, she noted a slight dip in reported loneliness. But the leaders of both projects say it’s hard to know if that stems from people making friends in class or becoming more social online. The AARP’s Ryerson says you might as well encourage both, so that technological and real-world connections reinforce each other. For example, she says, “FitBits are about taking steps. So let’s walk together.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">At the Curry Center, one other result is very clear: Now that the class is ending, nobody wants to give up their iPads. \"We just started!” exclaims Tachmuradova.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Springer still finds her tablet hard to put down: “I will put it on my bed—and then I will go, ‘\u003ci>It’s calling me\u003c/i>.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino says not to worry—they’re looking into a second phase that will allow everyone to keep their tablets, perhaps in exchange for peer mentoring the next round of students. Now that she’s taught them every iPad trick she knows, their new challenge will be teaching each other. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As baby boomers head into their golden years, senior advocates and organizations look for ways to use social technology tools to keep them connected to the world, and avoiding isolation and loneliness. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1507569269,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":3,"wordCount":1893},"headData":{"title":"Isolation is Big Health Risk for Seniors. But There's Community Online | KQED","description":"As baby boomers head into their golden years, senior advocates and organizations look for ways to use social technology tools to keep them connected to the world, and avoiding isolation and loneliness. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Isolation is Big Health Risk for Seniors. But There's Community Online","datePublished":"2017-10-04T21:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2017-10-09T17:14:29.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"414656 https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/?p=414656","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2017/10/04/up-to-40-percent-of-seniors-are-significantly-lonely-can-tech-help/","disqusTitle":"Isolation is Big Health Risk for Seniors. But There's Community Online","source":"Future of You","nprByline":"Kara Platoni\u003cbr />Future of You","path":"/futureofyou/414656/up-to-40-percent-of-seniors-are-significantly-lonely-can-tech-help","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>Originally published June 26, 2017\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Orazgul Tachmuradova, age 71, emigrated to the United States alone, about a decade ago. Learning to get around San Francisco wasn't easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“My eyes are not good, my hearing’s not good, my English is not good,” is how she puts it. Having grown up in a rural area, surrounded by family, she was “slowly dying of disconnection.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The iPad is like a genie -- Hello, Siri? Tell me this one!' \u003ccite>Orazgul Tachmuradova, 71\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“This world does not belong to me; I do not belong to this world,” she recalls feeling.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">But recently, things have been looking up, thanks to a new high-tech relationship.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The iPad is like a \u003cem>genie\u003c/em>,” she says. She mimes pressing a button: “Hello, Siri? Tell me this one!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Tachmuradova and Siri started conversing during a year-long pilot project, now coming to an end, at San Francisco’s \u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ca href=\"http://curryseniorcenter.org\">Curry Senior Center\u003c/a>. Seventeen s\u003c/span>eniors were given iPads, FitBits and digital scales to monitor their health, and to reduce isolation by teaching them how to socialize, learn and enjoy themselves online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> “When I started this program, I was reborn,” says Tachmuradova. “I am becoming alive! More and more now, we are busy. I don’t feel I am alone. I live alone without \u003ci>being\u003c/i> alone.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">All of the program’s seniors live alone, and most are very low-income.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“Some people felt isolated, technologically-wise, because they didn't know what other people were doing on the internet,” says Angela Di Martino, who teaches the weekly class on how to use the devices. “Now I think they feel a lot more comfortable because they have that knowledge.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I live alone without \u003ci>being\u003c/i> alone.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino devoted early lessons to finding trustworthy medical information on the web, emailing your doctor and checking lab results online. Her students have also been introduced to an array of social tech tools; some of the group’s favorite are FaceTime and Skype for video chatting and Messenger for sharing photos. Many in the group use their iPads to tune in the radio or podcasts, and one has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/MJofSanFran\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">her own YouTube channel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The last few classes have been devoted to iPad photography, so today everyone is editing their best shots. In one corner, Marilyn Chan and Shirley Smith keep leaning over to see what’s happening on each other’s screens. Chan is polishing up a selfie of the two of them making the most of Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day. Across the room, Linda Rospendowski, 68, is contemplating a photo of herself in a hot pink dress. But she has a problem: The photographer has chopped off the top of her head, and she's wondering if you can digitally repair hair. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“The bouffant—it has to be there,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>America: Getting Old\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As baby boomers head into their 60s and 70s, advocacy groups are now exploring the benefits of this kind of tech education for seniors. Prime candidates are elderly people who live in rural areas, are estranged or live far from family, or have health or mobility problems that make it difficult to get around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_414753\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 386px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-414753 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Rospendowski, 68, and Orazgul Tachmuradova, 71, work on editing their photos. \u003ccite>(Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Lisa Marsh Ryerson, president of the AARP Foundation, a charitable affiliate of the advocacy group for seniors, points out that 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day. But despite their numbers, baby boomers don’t always feel like they’re aging together. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“As many as 40 percent of adults who are 65 or older say that they experience significant loneliness,” says Ryerson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Loneliness isn’t quite the same thing as being alone, but both can influence health. “Loneliness is something that is subjective. It’s our own perception of our experiences,” says Ryerson. It is also one measure of distress. Isolation, on the other hand, is an objective metric, “based on the size of someone’s social network, the frequency of contact with their social network and their access to services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Isolation can cause health problems even for a person who feels perfectly satisfied with a small or distant network. (Imagine not knowing anyone nearby who can check on you when you’re ill.) Ryerson says isolation is often triggered by loss of hearing or mobility, a move to a new community or a partner’s death, and it’s especially common among those who are low-income or identify as a member of a marginalized group.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">To address the problem, the AARP Foundation recently launched \u003ca href=\"https://connect2affect.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Connect2Affect\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a resource portal for older adults and caregivers that encourages online engagement, and includes a \u003ca href=\"https://connect2affect.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/A-Profile-of-Social-Connectedness.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">study of social connectedness among people over age 62\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://aarptek.aarp.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">AARP Academy\u003c/span>\u003c/a> also offers free online tutorials for using smartphones, tablets or social media, and for conducting job searches on the internet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, the National Council on Aging completed its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/aging-mastery-program/\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">two-year tablet program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, similar to Curry’s. The result? “The more time [participants] were spending on the tablets, the stronger their social interactions, their emotional support, self-esteem,” says \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s4\">Susan Stiles, senior director of product development and strategy for the group. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Getting Seniors Connected\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Yet enticing people online isn’t always easy. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/05/17/technology-use-among-seniors/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">study \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">released in May by the Pew Research Center\u003c/span>, while mobile device use is climbing among seniors, still only about a third own a tablet, 42 percent own smartphones, and just over half have broadband at home. Only about a third use social media.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“There were some fears going into the project,” says Stiles of the NCOA program. “People did not necessarily think that a tablet computer had any relevancy for their lives. They had privacy concerns and were afraid of potentially being exposed to scams.” (Ditto the Curry class, where people asked pointed questions about putting credit card information on their iPad and worried about being unfairly charged when ordering photo prints online.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For the NCOA program, the trick was helping users find their personal killer app. For a former taxi driver now in his 90s, it was Google Maps. Stiles recalls a colleague asking the man to name some streets on his old route. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“She zoomed in on these streets and his eyes just lit up, \" Stiles says. \"And then he wanted to go everywhere in New York City.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For a former B-movie actress, the most alluring app was YouTube, where she found her old film clips.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Tablets seem to be a nice middle ground for those who are skeptical of full-sized computers. You can use voice commands instead of struggling with a mouse or keyboard; they fit neatly into a small living space like a senior apartment; and you can use them while sitting in your favorite comfy chair. “It doesn't feel like this weighty technology object,” says Stiles. “It really feels like a book.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Designing for Seniors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Pittsburgh-based Breezie, which sells tech solutions for seniors and \u003ca href=\"https://www.breezie.com/breezie-in-action/breezie-brings-online-benefits-to-seniors-in-florida/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">partnered with the NCOA on its program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, is trying to make Android-based devices even easier for new users by offering a service that simplifies a tablet’s interface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“If you went right now to a Best Buy and if you bought a tablet to give to a senior, there are 43 different settings you would want to change before you make it senior-friendly,”\u003cb> \u003c/b>says CEO and founder Jeh Kazimi. He means things that Breezie can pre-adjust, like brightness and volume, consolidating logins, and making the screen more forgiving if you accidentally put your thumb on it. The company is also trying to develop a way to cancel out hand tremor for people with Parkinson's disease, because uneven pressure can make the tablet think a user is swiping when they mean to click.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_415056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-415056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1020x804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1020x804.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-800x631.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-768x605.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1180x930.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-960x757.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-375x296.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-520x410.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaycee Springer, 65, polishes up her photo of the sun setting over San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Caregivers or Breezie staff can also curate each person’s desktop, like providing ready-made YouTube playlists for fans of jazz music or Muhammad Ali’s boxing matches. For an avid gardener, Kazimi says, they might install a few outdoorsy apps “that don’t show you ads every two minutes or ask you to upgrade every three minutes.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">But tablets aren’t a foolproof platform. Kazimi has seen seniors who need stickers to label the camera, volume and charging socket, because the devices can suddenly flip screen orientation, leaving confused people holding them upside down and wondering where the buttons are. Di Martino encountered some unexpected hurdles, too, “like a couple of the men in the class didn't know how to type.” She helped get people comfortable with the touchscreen by offering styluses, which are more accurate pointing tools than fingers. And she encouraged her students to feel OK about making mistakes. “Sometimes I tell them, ‘I don’t know what that button does. Let’s hit it,’” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Dip in Loneliness\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The seniors in the Curry program report different feelings about living alone—for example, Kaycee Springer enjoys it and is content using video chat to keep in touch with her daughters long-distance. But she does feel a bit socially crimped in the Tenderloin, where it doesn't always seem safe to walk around, especially at night. And she knows some of her elderly neighbors are extremely withdrawn. “There are people in my building, they just lay around and do absolutely nothing,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino has put together some preliminary stats from surveying participants at the program’s 6-month point. Almost all of the seniors said they used their iPad daily. As with the NCOA program, she noted a slight dip in reported loneliness. But the leaders of both projects say it’s hard to know if that stems from people making friends in class or becoming more social online. The AARP’s Ryerson says you might as well encourage both, so that technological and real-world connections reinforce each other. For example, she says, “FitBits are about taking steps. So let’s walk together.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">At the Curry Center, one other result is very clear: Now that the class is ending, nobody wants to give up their iPads. \"We just started!” exclaims Tachmuradova.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Springer still finds her tablet hard to put down: “I will put it on my bed—and then I will go, ‘\u003ci>It’s calling me\u003c/i>.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino says not to worry—they’re looking into a second phase that will allow everyone to keep their tablets, perhaps in exchange for peer mentoring the next round of students. Now that she’s taught them every iPad trick she knows, their new challenge will be teaching each other. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/futureofyou/414656/up-to-40-percent-of-seniors-are-significantly-lonely-can-tech-help","authors":["byline_futureofyou_414656"],"categories":["futureofyou_452","futureofyou_1","futureofyou_73","futureofyou_1061"],"tags":["futureofyou_1318","futureofyou_643"],"featImg":"futureofyou_414726","label":"source_futureofyou_414656"},"futureofyou_303997":{"type":"posts","id":"futureofyou_303997","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"futureofyou","id":"303997","score":null,"sort":[1482176903000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"hospitalized-elderly-have-lower-death-rate-when-cared-for-by-female-doc-study","title":"Hospitalized Elderly Have Lower Death Rate When Cared for by Female Doc: Study","publishDate":1482176903,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Future of You | KQED Science","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>In a study that is sure to rile male doctors, Harvard researchers have found that female doctors who care for elderly hospitalized patients get better results. Patients cared for by women were less likely to die or return to the hospital after discharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous research has shown that female doctors are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8769910\">more likely to follow\u003c/a> recommendations about prevention counseling and to order \u003ca href=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199308123290707#t=article\">preventive tests\u003c/a> like Pap smears and mammograms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003ca href=\"http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2593255\">latest work\u003c/a>, published Monday in \u003cem>JAMA Internal Medicine\u003c/em>, is the first to show a big difference in the result that matters most to patients: life or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study's authors estimate \"that approximately 32,000 fewer patients would die if male physicians could achieve the same outcomes as female physicians every year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course! What did you expect?\" replied the wife of Dr. Ashish Jha, the study's senior author, when he shared his team's findings with her. Jha said he expects a backlash on the study results. But his team's methodology, successfully put through multiple analyses, makes this work noteworthy, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tens of thousands of fewer deaths per year if we just went with female doctors?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoa! To us, a man and woman who met as we were getting our start in medicine, them's fightin' words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2593252\">editorial\u003c/a> about the study urges doctors to remedy the gender disparities in care and the pay gap that favors male physicians over women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since half the patients we treat are women and girls, it makes sense that at least half the physician corps should reflect the population. We've achieved that in \u003ca href=\"https://www.aamc.org/members/gwims/statistics/\">medical school\u003c/a> rolls, but overall only a third of practicing doctors are female. And many specialties, including orthopedics, cardiology and neurosurgery, are still dominated by men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why is there a gender-based difference in physicians' care? The authors admit that they are \"unable to identify exactly why female physicians have better outcomes than male physicians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don't pretend to know for sure, but as married doctors, we have our hunches. We talked it over and here are our thoughts about the research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Sarah-Anne Henning Schumann:\u003c/strong> The actual effect reported in the study is small, but multiplied over a huge population it does add up to something significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. John Henning Schumann:\u003c/strong> I like the Big Data aspect of it. The authors said, \"Let's look at more than a million Medicare patients over several years and see how they fared based on the gender of their doctor.\" While many people may want to tear this study apart, I think the findings make intuitive sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> I'm assuming the difference is because of the way that women, in general, communicate. It's about being better listeners, more nurturing and having emotional intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> There are plenty of men who are good communicators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> Yes, just as there are plenty of women who don't really have those qualities. For female doctors, having worked their way through pre-med, med school, and residency, they can have some of that nurturing communication skill beaten out of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> That happens to men, too!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> That's true. But this study shows us — just possibly — that if female doctors, on average, communicate better, their style might be more effective in treating disease and preventing death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> It's interesting to me because I think about some of my older patients, who much prefer that I tell them what to do rather than to discuss options and share decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> I think that traditionally men were the doctors. People often assume men are more intelligent and so would be more likely to take their advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> That has to change, as we get closer to parity with women in the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> My mother has had many experiences with male doctors, where she feels they haven't listened to her. They aren't warm or kind, but she feels reassured anyway. She thinks they're smart, and what's most important to her is their knowledge and technical skill, not their bedside manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> Mom always knows best, if that's what she values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> Even in our family, we're both doctors. I'm a family doctor, trained to see adults and kids. You're an internist, trained to only see adults. And in both of our families, most of the time, our family members will reach out to you with their questions — even about kids. And my family, who attended my Harvard Medical School graduation, I'll remind you, seems to value your opinion more. They seem to be looking for opinions more from men. That's kind of an interesting thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> I never really thought about that. I can see how that's totally male privilege. It has to be frustrating to be taken less seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> I'm in a Facebook group of physicians who are moms. While it's not every doctor-mom in the country, there are over 60,000 of us in it. So many tell stories of being mistaken for nurses—and taking great offense at that. We have worked so hard to get where we are and want to be treated as equals to our male colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I see the mix-up as a compliment rather than an insult. To be compared with a nurse says that patients are seeing me as someone who is caring for them and nurturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> That's a smart way to reframe it. Our colleague Jill used to get angry when people assumed she was a nurse. Instead, she decided to embrace it and use it as a call to service. Now she asks patients if they need an extra blanket or something to drink. And she believes that she provides better, more empathic care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> Everyone is going to want to know what is it about women that leads to these better outcomes. I think it's going to be hard to figure out exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> Do you think people that read or hear about this study will take home the message that they need to choose female doctors?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> Some will no doubt oversimplify it to that. What I take away is that if communication is the key, as I suspect, then we need to better select and train medical students and residents to exhibit these qualities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> Amen to that. What about equal pay for equal (or better!) outcomes? Paging, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/brochure-equal_pay_and_ledbetter_act.cfm\">Lilly Ledbetter\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> You're not really asking me that, are you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sarah-Anne Henning Schumann is a family doctor and serves as medical director of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://communityhealthconnection.org/\">Community Health Connection\u003c/a>,\u003cem> a federally qualified community health center in Tulsa, Okla.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>John Henning Schumann is an internal medicine doctor and serves as President of the University of Oklahoma's Tulsa campus. He also hosts \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://publicradiotulsa.org/term/john-henning-schumann\">Studio Tulsa: Medical Monday\u003c/a>\u003cem> on KWGS Public Radio Tulsa. He's on Twitter: @\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/glasshospital?lang=en\">\u003cem>GlassHospital\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 KWGS-FM. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://publicradiotulsa.org/\">KWGS-FM\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Patients+Cared+For+By+Female+Doctors+Fare+Better+Than+Those+Treated+By+Men&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If male doctors were as good as their female counterparts at caring for older people in the hospital, about 32,000 fewer patients a year would die. 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Patients cared for by women were less likely to die or return to the hospital after discharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous research has shown that female doctors are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8769910\">more likely to follow\u003c/a> recommendations about prevention counseling and to order \u003ca href=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199308123290707#t=article\">preventive tests\u003c/a> like Pap smears and mammograms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003ca href=\"http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2593255\">latest work\u003c/a>, published Monday in \u003cem>JAMA Internal Medicine\u003c/em>, is the first to show a big difference in the result that matters most to patients: life or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study's authors estimate \"that approximately 32,000 fewer patients would die if male physicians could achieve the same outcomes as female physicians every year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course! What did you expect?\" replied the wife of Dr. Ashish Jha, the study's senior author, when he shared his team's findings with her. Jha said he expects a backlash on the study results. But his team's methodology, successfully put through multiple analyses, makes this work noteworthy, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tens of thousands of fewer deaths per year if we just went with female doctors?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoa! To us, a man and woman who met as we were getting our start in medicine, them's fightin' words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2593252\">editorial\u003c/a> about the study urges doctors to remedy the gender disparities in care and the pay gap that favors male physicians over women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since half the patients we treat are women and girls, it makes sense that at least half the physician corps should reflect the population. We've achieved that in \u003ca href=\"https://www.aamc.org/members/gwims/statistics/\">medical school\u003c/a> rolls, but overall only a third of practicing doctors are female. And many specialties, including orthopedics, cardiology and neurosurgery, are still dominated by men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why is there a gender-based difference in physicians' care? The authors admit that they are \"unable to identify exactly why female physicians have better outcomes than male physicians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don't pretend to know for sure, but as married doctors, we have our hunches. We talked it over and here are our thoughts about the research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Sarah-Anne Henning Schumann:\u003c/strong> The actual effect reported in the study is small, but multiplied over a huge population it does add up to something significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. John Henning Schumann:\u003c/strong> I like the Big Data aspect of it. The authors said, \"Let's look at more than a million Medicare patients over several years and see how they fared based on the gender of their doctor.\" While many people may want to tear this study apart, I think the findings make intuitive sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> I'm assuming the difference is because of the way that women, in general, communicate. It's about being better listeners, more nurturing and having emotional intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> There are plenty of men who are good communicators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> Yes, just as there are plenty of women who don't really have those qualities. For female doctors, having worked their way through pre-med, med school, and residency, they can have some of that nurturing communication skill beaten out of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> That happens to men, too!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> That's true. But this study shows us — just possibly — that if female doctors, on average, communicate better, their style might be more effective in treating disease and preventing death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> It's interesting to me because I think about some of my older patients, who much prefer that I tell them what to do rather than to discuss options and share decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> I think that traditionally men were the doctors. People often assume men are more intelligent and so would be more likely to take their advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> That has to change, as we get closer to parity with women in the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> My mother has had many experiences with male doctors, where she feels they haven't listened to her. They aren't warm or kind, but she feels reassured anyway. She thinks they're smart, and what's most important to her is their knowledge and technical skill, not their bedside manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> Mom always knows best, if that's what she values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> Even in our family, we're both doctors. I'm a family doctor, trained to see adults and kids. You're an internist, trained to only see adults. And in both of our families, most of the time, our family members will reach out to you with their questions — even about kids. And my family, who attended my Harvard Medical School graduation, I'll remind you, seems to value your opinion more. They seem to be looking for opinions more from men. That's kind of an interesting thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> I never really thought about that. I can see how that's totally male privilege. It has to be frustrating to be taken less seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> I'm in a Facebook group of physicians who are moms. While it's not every doctor-mom in the country, there are over 60,000 of us in it. So many tell stories of being mistaken for nurses—and taking great offense at that. We have worked so hard to get where we are and want to be treated as equals to our male colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I see the mix-up as a compliment rather than an insult. To be compared with a nurse says that patients are seeing me as someone who is caring for them and nurturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> That's a smart way to reframe it. Our colleague Jill used to get angry when people assumed she was a nurse. Instead, she decided to embrace it and use it as a call to service. Now she asks patients if they need an extra blanket or something to drink. And she believes that she provides better, more empathic care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> Everyone is going to want to know what is it about women that leads to these better outcomes. I think it's going to be hard to figure out exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> Do you think people that read or hear about this study will take home the message that they need to choose female doctors?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> Some will no doubt oversimplify it to that. What I take away is that if communication is the key, as I suspect, then we need to better select and train medical students and residents to exhibit these qualities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John:\u003c/strong> Amen to that. What about equal pay for equal (or better!) outcomes? Paging, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/brochure-equal_pay_and_ledbetter_act.cfm\">Lilly Ledbetter\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah-Anne:\u003c/strong> You're not really asking me that, are you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sarah-Anne Henning Schumann is a family doctor and serves as medical director of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://communityhealthconnection.org/\">Community Health Connection\u003c/a>,\u003cem> a federally qualified community health center in Tulsa, Okla.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>John Henning Schumann is an internal medicine doctor and serves as President of the University of Oklahoma's Tulsa campus. He also hosts \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://publicradiotulsa.org/term/john-henning-schumann\">Studio Tulsa: Medical Monday\u003c/a>\u003cem> on KWGS Public Radio Tulsa. He's on Twitter: @\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/glasshospital?lang=en\">\u003cem>GlassHospital\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 KWGS-FM. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://publicradiotulsa.org/\">KWGS-FM\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Patients+Cared+For+By+Female+Doctors+Fare+Better+Than+Those+Treated+By+Men&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/futureofyou/303997/hospitalized-elderly-have-lower-death-rate-when-cared-for-by-female-doc-study","authors":["byline_futureofyou_303997"],"categories":["futureofyou_452","futureofyou_1","futureofyou_73"],"tags":["futureofyou_190","futureofyou_1008","futureofyou_643"],"featImg":"futureofyou_303998","label":"source_futureofyou_303997"},"futureofyou_292623":{"type":"posts","id":"futureofyou_292623","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"futureofyou","id":"292623","score":null,"sort":[1480629270000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"for-startups-marketing-to-seniors-a-novel-idea-move-in-with-them","title":"For Startups Marketing to Seniors, A Novel Idea: Move In With Them","publishDate":1480629270,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Future of You | KQED Science","labelTerm":{"site":"futureofyou"},"content":"\u003cp>The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach \u003ca href=\"http://semico.com/content/aging-place-internet-things-golden-years\">$30 billion by next year,\u003c/a> and startups want in on the action. What they sometimes lack is feedback from the people they hope will use their product. So \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookdale.com/en.html\">Brookdale\u003c/a>, the country's largest owner of retirement communities, has been inviting a few select entrepreneurs just to move in for a few days, show off their products and hear what the residents have to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what brought Dayle Rodriguez, 28, all the way from England to the dining room of \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookdale.com/en/communities/brookdale-south-bay-ca.html\">Brookdale South Bay\u003c/a> in Torrance, Calif. Rodriguez is the community and marketing manager for a company called Sentab. The startup's \u003ca href=\"https://www.sentab.com/\">product\u003c/a>, SentabTV, enables older adults who may not be comfortable with computers to access email, video chat and social media using just their televisions and a remote control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nothing new, it's nothing too complicated and it's intuitive because lots of people have TV remotes,\" says Rodriguez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But none of that is the topic of conversation in the Brookdale dining room. Instead, Rodriguez solicits residents' advice on what he should get on his cheeseburger and how he should spend the afternoon. Billiards was on the agenda, as well as learning to play \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong\">mahjong\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez says it's important that residents here don't feel like he's selling them something. \"I've had more feedback in a passive approach\" he says. \"Playing pool, playing cards, having dinner, having lunch,\" all work better \"than going through a survey of questions. Them getting to know me and to trust me and knowing I'm not selling them something — there's more honest feedback that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez is just the seventh entrepreneur to move into one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sentab.com/\">Brookdale\u003c/a>'s 1,100 senior living communities. Other new products in the program have included a kind of full-body blow dryer and specially designed clothing that allows people with disabilities to dress and undress themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brookdale has no financial relationship with these startups. But that's not what motivates the program, says Andrew Smith, Brookdale's director of strategy and innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First and foremost, the residents love it,\" says Smith. \"It also provides Brookdale the opportunity to learn about and experience new technologies quickly and inexpensively and to make sure that we understand what residents want and need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Lou Busch, 93, agreed to try the Sentab system. She tells Rodriguez that it might be good for \u003cem>someone\u003c/em>, but not for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have the computer and FaceTime, which I talk with my family on,\" she explains. She also has an iPad and a smart phone. \"So I do pretty much everything I need to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez takes it pretty well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not going to lie to you, I would've liked a more positive response,\" he says. But \"if people don't need it or want it, it's up to us to change, adapt it or make it more useful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, if Rodriguez wanted feedback from some more technophobic seniors, he may have ended up in the wrong Brookdale community. This one's located in the heart of Southern California's aerospace corridor. Many residents have backgrounds in engineering, business and academia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rodriguez says he's still learning something important by moving into to this Brookdale community: \"People are more tech-savvy than we thought.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And besides, where else would he learn to play mahjong?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=For+Startups+Marketing+To+Seniors%2C+A+Novel+Idea%3A+Move+In+With+Them&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Young entrepreneurs who develop products for older adults have found a way to get instant feedback: They simply move into senior housing, where residents can tests those products on the spot.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1480629270,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":586},"headData":{"title":"For Startups Marketing to Seniors, A Novel Idea: Move In With Them | KQED","description":"Young entrepreneurs who develop products for older adults have found a way to get instant feedback: They simply move into senior housing, where residents can tests those products on the spot.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"For Startups Marketing to Seniors, A Novel Idea: Move In With Them","datePublished":"2016-12-01T21:54:30.000Z","dateModified":"2016-12-01T21:54:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"292623 http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/?p=292623","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/12/01/for-startups-marketing-to-seniors-a-novel-idea-move-in-with-them/","disqusTitle":"For Startups Marketing to Seniors, A Novel Idea: Move In With Them","nprImageCredit":"Ina Jaffe","nprByline":"Ina Jaffe\u003cbr />NPR All Tech Considered","nprImageAgency":"NPR","nprStoryId":"501819337","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=501819337&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/12/501819337/for-startups-marketing-to-seniors-a-novel-idea-move-in-with-them?ft=nprml&f=501819337","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:04:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Sat, 12 Nov 2016 08:40:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:04:38 -0500","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesat/2016/11/20161112_wesat_startups_turn_to_seniors_for_product_feedback.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1019&d=220&p=7&story=501819337&t=progseg&e=501819287&seg=16&ft=nprml&f=501819337","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1501819338-3f69d1.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1019&d=220&p=7&story=501819337&t=progseg&e=501819287&seg=16&ft=nprml&f=501819337","path":"/futureofyou/292623/for-startups-marketing-to-seniors-a-novel-idea-move-in-with-them","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesat/2016/11/20161112_wesat_startups_turn_to_seniors_for_product_feedback.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1019&d=220&p=7&story=501819337&t=progseg&e=501819287&seg=16&ft=nprml&f=501819337","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach \u003ca href=\"http://semico.com/content/aging-place-internet-things-golden-years\">$30 billion by next year,\u003c/a> and startups want in on the action. What they sometimes lack is feedback from the people they hope will use their product. So \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookdale.com/en.html\">Brookdale\u003c/a>, the country's largest owner of retirement communities, has been inviting a few select entrepreneurs just to move in for a few days, show off their products and hear what the residents have to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what brought Dayle Rodriguez, 28, all the way from England to the dining room of \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookdale.com/en/communities/brookdale-south-bay-ca.html\">Brookdale South Bay\u003c/a> in Torrance, Calif. Rodriguez is the community and marketing manager for a company called Sentab. 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Billiards was on the agenda, as well as learning to play \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong\">mahjong\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez says it's important that residents here don't feel like he's selling them something. \"I've had more feedback in a passive approach\" he says. \"Playing pool, playing cards, having dinner, having lunch,\" all work better \"than going through a survey of questions. Them getting to know me and to trust me and knowing I'm not selling them something — there's more honest feedback that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez is just the seventh entrepreneur to move into one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sentab.com/\">Brookdale\u003c/a>'s 1,100 senior living communities. Other new products in the program have included a kind of full-body blow dryer and specially designed clothing that allows people with disabilities to dress and undress themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brookdale has no financial relationship with these startups. But that's not what motivates the program, says Andrew Smith, Brookdale's director of strategy and innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First and foremost, the residents love it,\" says Smith. \"It also provides Brookdale the opportunity to learn about and experience new technologies quickly and inexpensively and to make sure that we understand what residents want and need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Lou Busch, 93, agreed to try the Sentab system. She tells Rodriguez that it might be good for \u003cem>someone\u003c/em>, but not for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have the computer and FaceTime, which I talk with my family on,\" she explains. She also has an iPad and a smart phone. \"So I do pretty much everything I need to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez takes it pretty well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not going to lie to you, I would've liked a more positive response,\" he says. But \"if people don't need it or want it, it's up to us to change, adapt it or make it more useful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, if Rodriguez wanted feedback from some more technophobic seniors, he may have ended up in the wrong Brookdale community. This one's located in the heart of Southern California's aerospace corridor. Many residents have backgrounds in engineering, business and academia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rodriguez says he's still learning something important by moving into to this Brookdale community: \"People are more tech-savvy than we thought.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And besides, where else would he learn to play mahjong?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=For+Startups+Marketing+To+Seniors%2C+A+Novel+Idea%3A+Move+In+With+Them&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/futureofyou/292623/for-startups-marketing-to-seniors-a-novel-idea-move-in-with-them","authors":["byline_futureofyou_292623"],"categories":["futureofyou_452","futureofyou_1"],"tags":["futureofyou_643"],"featImg":"futureofyou_292624","label":"futureofyou"},"futureofyou_190122":{"type":"posts","id":"futureofyou_190122","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"futureofyou","id":"190122","score":null,"sort":[1467041454000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"seniors-go-virtual-to-relieve-pain-loneliness","title":"Seniors Go Virtual to Relieve Pain, Loneliness","publishDate":1467041454,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Future of You | KQED Science","labelTerm":{"site":"futureofyou"},"content":"\u003cp>Virginia Anderlini is 103 years old, and she is about to take her sixth trip into virtual reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In real life, she is sitting on the sofa in the bay window of her San Francisco assisted-living facility. Next to her, Dr. Sonya Kim gently tugs the straps that anchor the headset over her eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[VR] allows them to forget their chronic pain, anxiety, the fact that they are alone.'\u003ccite>Dr. Sonya Kim, One Caring Team\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But in the virtual world, Anderlini is on a Hawaiian beach, and it’s sunset, and she is surrounded by a glistening sea and a molten purple-red sky. If she looks up, she sees the fronds of an enormous palm tree, and falling rainbow specks that dance in the air like the light from a disco ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello, it’s so nice to see you again,“ comes Kim’s pre-recorded voice from inside the headset. “It’s such a beautiful day today, isn’t it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my goodness!” says Anderlini, sounding delighted. She scans her head from side to side, taking in the details of the virtual landscape: little grass shacks, twists of driftwood, outcroppings of volcanic rock. “Hey, that’s really pretty!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the back, look at this,” she continues, wriggling around to see the imaginary world behind her. “Terry, you’ve got to see this, too!” she calls to her son, who is watching nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a Bay Area virtual reality entrepreneur, Kim has an unusual target audience: the elderly. Anderlini is the first private client for Kim’s Aloha VR program, which Kim envisions as a way to help people relax, an alternative to endlessly watching TV, and a change of scenery for those who can’t get out much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_190155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-190155\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR.jpg\" alt=\"Aloha VR combines images of beaches with friendly reminders to take her medications to stay healthy.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR-400x221.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR-800x443.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR-768x425.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR-1180x653.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR-960x531.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aloha VR combines images of beaches with friendly reminders to take her medications to stay healthy. \u003ccite>(One Caring Team)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And for those unhappy in the present day, virtual reality might provide an escape into an immersive other world that “allows them to forget their chronic pain, anxiety, the fact that they are alone,” said Kim. In VR, she said, her company has found “a new care modality to bring to a senior care setting like this, to inspire them to live another day where they're happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'No One Cares About Me'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim, a former emergency room doctor, found her way to virtual reality through a series of tough requests. A few years ago, she was running a house-call practice when she received a call for help from a woman whose 88-year-old mother had stopped eating and drinking. As a result, she’d made three emergency room trips in a month, racking up more than $50,000 in medical bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim knew that seniors often end up in the hospital for preventable conditions—like dehydration, malnutrition and electrolyte imbalances—exacerbated by loneliness and lack of self-care. And when she asked the older woman why she’d stopped eating, Kim recalled, her patient replied: “No one loves me. No one cares about me. I don’t matter any more. Why should I eat, why should I drink, why should I live? I just want to die today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"1oKfaHfMWVf63Nld9zzrr2qGg58wHK5p\"]“When I was driving back home from that visit, I couldn’t stop sobbing,” Kim said. “As a single woman without any kids, I thought, ‘When I'm her age, who’s going to call me? Who’s going to take care of me?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That interaction led Kim to found \u003ca href=\"https://onecaringteam.com\" target=\"_blank\">One Caring Team\u003c/a>, a care call program, in 2014. Staffers phone seniors at home to check on their mood, medications and appointments, and prompt them to chat about positive subjects, like what makes them happy or what they could do bring joy to someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then one day, as Kim was giving a talk about her service, a man in the audience asked: “What about \u003cem>my\u003c/em> mom?” His mother has dementia, he said, and couldn’t have a coherent phone conversation. Finding a solution for his mom, Kim said, became her “new homework assignment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By chance, Kim had been reading about virtual reality and decided to attend a VR mixer in San Francisco; someone let her use an Oculus headset to walk through a virtual garden, and she “totally fell in love” with the medium. Convinced her seniors would like it, she borrowed a friend’s headset and took it to a preventative care conference. By the time she was done, she already had assisted-living facility directors asking about pricing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That convinced her the concept could sell, but she wanted to make sure VR could actually make people feel better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Easing Chronic Pain, Anxiety and Depression\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“There are over 100 clinical research papers that are already published that show proven positive clinical outcomes using VR in managing chronic pain, anxiety and depression,” she said. “And in dementia patients, all those three elements are very common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Dementia patients often feel lost, because they feel that they don’t belong anywhere. I want them to feel found again.'\u003ccite>Dr. Sonya Kim, One Caring Team\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For example, in the 1990s, pioneering researchers at the University of Washington developed \u003ca href=\"http://depts.washington.edu/hplab/research/virtual-reality/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>SnowWorld\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an icy virtual environment that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2015/05/28/how-virtual-reality-worlds-can-help-reduce-pain/\" target=\"_blank\">reduced pain\u003c/a> for burn victims during wound treatment. More recently, Dr. Albert Rizzo’s lab at the University of Southern California has helped military veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by offering \u003ca href=\"http://medvr.ict.usc.edu/projects/bravemind/\" target=\"_blank\">exposure therapy in virtual environments\u003c/a>. The Veterans United Foundation has created \u003ca href=\"https://www.enhancelives.com/news/honor-everywhere-360-virtual-reality-veterans\" target=\"_blank\">virtual reality experiences\u003c/a> of veterans' memorials, for vets who can't travel to see them. And scientists at the Chronic Pain Research Institute have tested a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2015/05/28/how-virtual-reality-worlds-can-help-reduce-pain/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Meditative Walk\u003c/a> meant to help users manage pain and stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VR is typically formulated for younger users, and often asks them to play games, solve puzzles, master new information and move around energetically. But many of Kim’s clients are wheelchair-bound; those with advanced dementia cannot read or follow verbal commands. Nearly all of them are unfamiliar with the conventions of VR, which assume that the user knows to swivel their head to take in the 360-degree view, to move around to make the landscape scroll, or to tap objects to interact with them. Instead, many of Kim’s clients go through entire sessions seated, heads cast down, hands folded in their laps. Sometimes her staff has to gently pivot a client’s chin to help them look to the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But exploration and beating puzzles aren’t the point of this kind of VR: The environments have no storyline, just scenery. The name Aloha VR is a nod to Kim’s time working in a Hawaiian ER, where she came to admire the state’s ‘ohana spirit, a concept that encompasses love for extended family and respect for elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the version Anderlini is watching, Kim’s voice offers a friendly welcome and reminds her to take her medication to stay healthy. As she speaks, the text pops up in little orange bubbles that burst pleasingly at the end of each sentence. Versions for the cognitively impaired have no words at all, just music and the sounds of waves. “If there’s too many words, if there are too many things we’re asking, they’re going to get frustrated,” said Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_3528\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 401px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/05/fMRI.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-3528\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/05/fMRI.jpg\" alt=\"These images from an fMRI scan show areas of the brain affected by pain, and how they shrink when the patient is immersed in a virtual reality world. (Courtesy Dr. Sam Sharar/University of Washington)\" width=\"401\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/05/fMRI.jpg 401w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/05/fMRI-400x249.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These images from an fMRI scan show areas of the brain affected by pain, and how they shrink when the patient is immersed in a virtual reality world. \u003ccite>(Dr. Sam Sharar/University of Washington)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead, the point is to make users feel safe and welcome. “Dementia patients often feel lost, because they feel that they don’t belong anywhere,” said Kim—they may be confused about their surroundings or who they are, or estranged from family members overwhelmed by their care. By giving them a beautiful beach, Kim said, “I want them to feel found again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to having private clients, Kim conducts group therapy sessions at Bay Area assisted-living centers, where a dozen or so people take turns with the goggles. Although some of her clients struggle with verbal communication, they seem to have found other ways to express enjoyment. One client, Kim said, simply blew kisses. Another hummed happily. A third stole 40 minutes in the headset, repeatedly asking for “Just a little more, hon.” A few of them just go to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Challenge: Heavy and Expensive Headsets\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere are still challenges for the company to work out. The headsets can be heavy, it can take seniors a while to warm up to trying them, and while prices for mobile VR equipment have come down, it still costs about $850 for each Samsung Gear VR headset plus the Galaxy smartphone that slides into it—enough that they don’t have a rig for each client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim’s company has created a handful of demo environments, but it will take time and money to build more, so for now they also buy off-the-shelf programs to give the clients a little variety. (They recently teamed with the \u003ca href=\"http://virtualworldsociety.org/wordpress1/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual World Society\u003c/a>, a group that intends to use VR to promote social good. The group’s founder, University of Washington virtual interface pioneer Dr. Tom Furness, is now One Caring Team’s acting CTO. )\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Virginia Anderlini has been on virtual visits to Venice and Africa, and after her brief trip to the beach, spends some time in an autumn-themed meditation session watching leaves fall. But she’s seen it before, and soon asks for something different. What virtual world would she like to try next? “Just something I haven't seen before,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that could be tougher than it sounds. “You know, when you get to this age,” she says with a laugh, “I think you’ve seen everything.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The headsets are a bit heavy, but virtual reality has a lot to offer elderly home-bound people. 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Next to her, Dr. Sonya Kim gently tugs the straps that anchor the headset over her eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[VR] allows them to forget their chronic pain, anxiety, the fact that they are alone.'\u003ccite>Dr. Sonya Kim, One Caring Team\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But in the virtual world, Anderlini is on a Hawaiian beach, and it’s sunset, and she is surrounded by a glistening sea and a molten purple-red sky. If she looks up, she sees the fronds of an enormous palm tree, and falling rainbow specks that dance in the air like the light from a disco ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello, it’s so nice to see you again,“ comes Kim’s pre-recorded voice from inside the headset. “It’s such a beautiful day today, isn’t it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my goodness!” says Anderlini, sounding delighted. She scans her head from side to side, taking in the details of the virtual landscape: little grass shacks, twists of driftwood, outcroppings of volcanic rock. “Hey, that’s really pretty!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the back, look at this,” she continues, wriggling around to see the imaginary world behind her. “Terry, you’ve got to see this, too!” she calls to her son, who is watching nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a Bay Area virtual reality entrepreneur, Kim has an unusual target audience: the elderly. Anderlini is the first private client for Kim’s Aloha VR program, which Kim envisions as a way to help people relax, an alternative to endlessly watching TV, and a change of scenery for those who can’t get out much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_190155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-190155\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR.jpg\" alt=\"Aloha VR combines images of beaches with friendly reminders to take her medications to stay healthy.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR-400x221.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR-800x443.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR-768x425.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR-1180x653.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR-960x531.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/06/landscape-VR-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aloha VR combines images of beaches with friendly reminders to take her medications to stay healthy. \u003ccite>(One Caring Team)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And for those unhappy in the present day, virtual reality might provide an escape into an immersive other world that “allows them to forget their chronic pain, anxiety, the fact that they are alone,” said Kim. In VR, she said, her company has found “a new care modality to bring to a senior care setting like this, to inspire them to live another day where they're happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'No One Cares About Me'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim, a former emergency room doctor, found her way to virtual reality through a series of tough requests. A few years ago, she was running a house-call practice when she received a call for help from a woman whose 88-year-old mother had stopped eating and drinking. As a result, she’d made three emergency room trips in a month, racking up more than $50,000 in medical bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim knew that seniors often end up in the hospital for preventable conditions—like dehydration, malnutrition and electrolyte imbalances—exacerbated by loneliness and lack of self-care. And when she asked the older woman why she’d stopped eating, Kim recalled, her patient replied: “No one loves me. No one cares about me. I don’t matter any more. Why should I eat, why should I drink, why should I live? I just want to die today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>“When I was driving back home from that visit, I couldn’t stop sobbing,” Kim said. “As a single woman without any kids, I thought, ‘When I'm her age, who’s going to call me? Who’s going to take care of me?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That interaction led Kim to found \u003ca href=\"https://onecaringteam.com\" target=\"_blank\">One Caring Team\u003c/a>, a care call program, in 2014. Staffers phone seniors at home to check on their mood, medications and appointments, and prompt them to chat about positive subjects, like what makes them happy or what they could do bring joy to someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then one day, as Kim was giving a talk about her service, a man in the audience asked: “What about \u003cem>my\u003c/em> mom?” His mother has dementia, he said, and couldn’t have a coherent phone conversation. Finding a solution for his mom, Kim said, became her “new homework assignment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By chance, Kim had been reading about virtual reality and decided to attend a VR mixer in San Francisco; someone let her use an Oculus headset to walk through a virtual garden, and she “totally fell in love” with the medium. Convinced her seniors would like it, she borrowed a friend’s headset and took it to a preventative care conference. By the time she was done, she already had assisted-living facility directors asking about pricing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That convinced her the concept could sell, but she wanted to make sure VR could actually make people feel better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Easing Chronic Pain, Anxiety and Depression\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“There are over 100 clinical research papers that are already published that show proven positive clinical outcomes using VR in managing chronic pain, anxiety and depression,” she said. “And in dementia patients, all those three elements are very common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Dementia patients often feel lost, because they feel that they don’t belong anywhere. I want them to feel found again.'\u003ccite>Dr. Sonya Kim, One Caring Team\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For example, in the 1990s, pioneering researchers at the University of Washington developed \u003ca href=\"http://depts.washington.edu/hplab/research/virtual-reality/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>SnowWorld\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an icy virtual environment that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2015/05/28/how-virtual-reality-worlds-can-help-reduce-pain/\" target=\"_blank\">reduced pain\u003c/a> for burn victims during wound treatment. More recently, Dr. Albert Rizzo’s lab at the University of Southern California has helped military veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by offering \u003ca href=\"http://medvr.ict.usc.edu/projects/bravemind/\" target=\"_blank\">exposure therapy in virtual environments\u003c/a>. The Veterans United Foundation has created \u003ca href=\"https://www.enhancelives.com/news/honor-everywhere-360-virtual-reality-veterans\" target=\"_blank\">virtual reality experiences\u003c/a> of veterans' memorials, for vets who can't travel to see them. And scientists at the Chronic Pain Research Institute have tested a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2015/05/28/how-virtual-reality-worlds-can-help-reduce-pain/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Meditative Walk\u003c/a> meant to help users manage pain and stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VR is typically formulated for younger users, and often asks them to play games, solve puzzles, master new information and move around energetically. But many of Kim’s clients are wheelchair-bound; those with advanced dementia cannot read or follow verbal commands. Nearly all of them are unfamiliar with the conventions of VR, which assume that the user knows to swivel their head to take in the 360-degree view, to move around to make the landscape scroll, or to tap objects to interact with them. Instead, many of Kim’s clients go through entire sessions seated, heads cast down, hands folded in their laps. Sometimes her staff has to gently pivot a client’s chin to help them look to the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But exploration and beating puzzles aren’t the point of this kind of VR: The environments have no storyline, just scenery. The name Aloha VR is a nod to Kim’s time working in a Hawaiian ER, where she came to admire the state’s ‘ohana spirit, a concept that encompasses love for extended family and respect for elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the version Anderlini is watching, Kim’s voice offers a friendly welcome and reminds her to take her medication to stay healthy. As she speaks, the text pops up in little orange bubbles that burst pleasingly at the end of each sentence. Versions for the cognitively impaired have no words at all, just music and the sounds of waves. “If there’s too many words, if there are too many things we’re asking, they’re going to get frustrated,” said Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_3528\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 401px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/05/fMRI.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-3528\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/05/fMRI.jpg\" alt=\"These images from an fMRI scan show areas of the brain affected by pain, and how they shrink when the patient is immersed in a virtual reality world. (Courtesy Dr. Sam Sharar/University of Washington)\" width=\"401\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/05/fMRI.jpg 401w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/05/fMRI-400x249.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These images from an fMRI scan show areas of the brain affected by pain, and how they shrink when the patient is immersed in a virtual reality world. \u003ccite>(Dr. Sam Sharar/University of Washington)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead, the point is to make users feel safe and welcome. “Dementia patients often feel lost, because they feel that they don’t belong anywhere,” said Kim—they may be confused about their surroundings or who they are, or estranged from family members overwhelmed by their care. By giving them a beautiful beach, Kim said, “I want them to feel found again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to having private clients, Kim conducts group therapy sessions at Bay Area assisted-living centers, where a dozen or so people take turns with the goggles. Although some of her clients struggle with verbal communication, they seem to have found other ways to express enjoyment. One client, Kim said, simply blew kisses. Another hummed happily. A third stole 40 minutes in the headset, repeatedly asking for “Just a little more, hon.” A few of them just go to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Challenge: Heavy and Expensive Headsets\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere are still challenges for the company to work out. The headsets can be heavy, it can take seniors a while to warm up to trying them, and while prices for mobile VR equipment have come down, it still costs about $850 for each Samsung Gear VR headset plus the Galaxy smartphone that slides into it—enough that they don’t have a rig for each client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim’s company has created a handful of demo environments, but it will take time and money to build more, so for now they also buy off-the-shelf programs to give the clients a little variety. (They recently teamed with the \u003ca href=\"http://virtualworldsociety.org/wordpress1/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual World Society\u003c/a>, a group that intends to use VR to promote social good. The group’s founder, University of Washington virtual interface pioneer Dr. Tom Furness, is now One Caring Team’s acting CTO. )\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Virginia Anderlini has been on virtual visits to Venice and Africa, and after her brief trip to the beach, spends some time in an autumn-themed meditation session watching leaves fall. But she’s seen it before, and soon asks for something different. What virtual world would she like to try next? “Just something I haven't seen before,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that could be tougher than it sounds. “You know, when you get to this age,” she says with a laugh, “I think you’ve seen everything.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/futureofyou/190122/seniors-go-virtual-to-relieve-pain-loneliness","authors":["byline_futureofyou_190122"],"categories":["futureofyou_1"],"tags":["futureofyou_643","futureofyou_380"],"featImg":"futureofyou_190123","label":"futureofyou"},"futureofyou_179237":{"type":"posts","id":"futureofyou_179237","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"futureofyou","id":"179237","score":null,"sort":[1465417836000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"5-trends-to-watch-in-digital-health-for-people-over-50","title":"5 Trends to Watch in Digital Health for People Over 50","publishDate":1465417836,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Future of You | KQED Science","labelTerm":{"site":"futureofyou"},"content":"\u003cp>Medical companies shouldn’t overlook older people when they design wearables or apps, according to new \u003ca href=\"http://www.aarp.org/technology/innovations/innovation-50-plus/research/#frontiers\" target=\"_blank\">findings\u003c/a> from AARP, the advocacy group for seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers 50 and over are moving away from traditional health care models that require face-to-face clinical appointments and extensive hospital tests, in favor of digital health care solutions like smart sensors and video appointments. AARP's \u003ca href=\"http://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/home-and-family/personal-technology/2016/05/2016-Health-Innovation-Frontiers-Infographics-AARP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">revenue forecast\u003c/a> for digital health care for the over-50 market is $34 Billion between 2015 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jody Holtzman, AARP's senior vice President for market innovation, spoke at this week's \u003ca href=\"https://summersummit.digitalhealthsummit.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Health Summer Summit\u003c/a>, in downtown San Francisco. Here are five digital health trends he sees emerging in the over-50 market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cb>Trend No. 1: Ease of Hiring Caregivers \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally patients have contacted an agency to find a caregiver, but companies are disrupting this model by removing the middle man. A growing number of startups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.joinhonor.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Honor\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.carelinx.com/\" target=\"_blank\">CareLinx\u003c/a> offer online marketplaces connecting patients directly with service providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Trend No. 2: Technophobia Declines\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data shows older people are no longer resisting screens -- in fact they're adopting technology in increasing numbers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/04/03/older-adults-and-technology-use/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center\u003c/a> reports 79 percent of people between 50 and 64 go online every day. The rate for people 65 and older is 71 percent. That's up from 58 percent in \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2010/12/16/generations-2010/\">2010\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holtzman says pedometers, which measure the number of steps people take, have always been popular with the elderly, who are now adopting digital devices like Fitbits, Jawbones and Misfit Shines. The most successful products will be designed for those who have less than perfect vision, he says. Think user friendly products with big font and simple visuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Trend No. 3: Siri and Alexa are the Future\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though older people are becoming more tech savvy, Holtzman says hands-free voice recognition devices like \u003ca href=\"http://www.apple.com/ios/siri/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple’s Siri\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Echo-Bluetooth-Speaker-with-WiFi-Alexa/dp/B00X4WHP5E\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Echo’s Alexa\u003c/a> will be the real killer health apps for seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you can just say, ‘Computer I took my medication,' or, ‘Computer order my meds.’ Imagine a day when you can order an autonomous vehicle that takes you to and from your doctor appointment. ... You are going to see exponential development and ease of use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Trend No. 4: Technology Plus Humans\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patient behavior is more likely to change if a human being is involved. Holtzman cites \u003ca href=\"https://www.omadahealth.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Omada Health’s\u003c/a> diabetes management program, in which a patient receives a health \u003ca href=\"https://go.omadahealth.com/health-coaches\" target=\"_blank\">coach\u003c/a> who works in tandem with digital tracking systems like wireless scales, pedometers and apps to monitor diet, exercise and medicines. As the patient tracks daily habits, the coach offers support and recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Trend No. 5: Telemedicine \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of physicians are offering patients remote care through online video appointments or email consultations. Not surprisingly, Holtzman predicts telemedicine will expand in rural communities and among patients who have physical limitations that make it difficult to travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"People over 50 are a ripe market for digital health companies according to new findings from AARP.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1475120958,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":524},"headData":{"title":"5 Trends to Watch in Digital Health for People Over 50 | KQED","description":"People over 50 are a ripe market for digital health companies according to new findings from AARP.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"5 Trends to Watch in Digital Health for People Over 50","datePublished":"2016-06-08T20:30:36.000Z","dateModified":"2016-09-29T03:49:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"179237 http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/?p=179237","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/06/08/5-trends-to-watch-in-digital-health-for-people-over-50/","disqusTitle":"5 Trends to Watch in Digital Health for People Over 50","path":"/futureofyou/179237/5-trends-to-watch-in-digital-health-for-people-over-50","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Medical companies shouldn’t overlook older people when they design wearables or apps, according to new \u003ca href=\"http://www.aarp.org/technology/innovations/innovation-50-plus/research/#frontiers\" target=\"_blank\">findings\u003c/a> from AARP, the advocacy group for seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers 50 and over are moving away from traditional health care models that require face-to-face clinical appointments and extensive hospital tests, in favor of digital health care solutions like smart sensors and video appointments. AARP's \u003ca href=\"http://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/home-and-family/personal-technology/2016/05/2016-Health-Innovation-Frontiers-Infographics-AARP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">revenue forecast\u003c/a> for digital health care for the over-50 market is $34 Billion between 2015 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jody Holtzman, AARP's senior vice President for market innovation, spoke at this week's \u003ca href=\"https://summersummit.digitalhealthsummit.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Health Summer Summit\u003c/a>, in downtown San Francisco. Here are five digital health trends he sees emerging in the over-50 market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cb>Trend No. 1: Ease of Hiring Caregivers \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally patients have contacted an agency to find a caregiver, but companies are disrupting this model by removing the middle man. A growing number of startups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.joinhonor.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Honor\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.carelinx.com/\" target=\"_blank\">CareLinx\u003c/a> offer online marketplaces connecting patients directly with service providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Trend No. 2: Technophobia Declines\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data shows older people are no longer resisting screens -- in fact they're adopting technology in increasing numbers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/04/03/older-adults-and-technology-use/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center\u003c/a> reports 79 percent of people between 50 and 64 go online every day. The rate for people 65 and older is 71 percent. That's up from 58 percent in \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2010/12/16/generations-2010/\">2010\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holtzman says pedometers, which measure the number of steps people take, have always been popular with the elderly, who are now adopting digital devices like Fitbits, Jawbones and Misfit Shines. The most successful products will be designed for those who have less than perfect vision, he says. Think user friendly products with big font and simple visuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Trend No. 3: Siri and Alexa are the Future\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though older people are becoming more tech savvy, Holtzman says hands-free voice recognition devices like \u003ca href=\"http://www.apple.com/ios/siri/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple’s Siri\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Echo-Bluetooth-Speaker-with-WiFi-Alexa/dp/B00X4WHP5E\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Echo’s Alexa\u003c/a> will be the real killer health apps for seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you can just say, ‘Computer I took my medication,' or, ‘Computer order my meds.’ Imagine a day when you can order an autonomous vehicle that takes you to and from your doctor appointment. ... You are going to see exponential development and ease of use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Trend No. 4: Technology Plus Humans\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patient behavior is more likely to change if a human being is involved. Holtzman cites \u003ca href=\"https://www.omadahealth.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Omada Health’s\u003c/a> diabetes management program, in which a patient receives a health \u003ca href=\"https://go.omadahealth.com/health-coaches\" target=\"_blank\">coach\u003c/a> who works in tandem with digital tracking systems like wireless scales, pedometers and apps to monitor diet, exercise and medicines. As the patient tracks daily habits, the coach offers support and recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Trend No. 5: Telemedicine \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of physicians are offering patients remote care through online video appointments or email consultations. 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Handler wears the tracker on her wrist to monitor her daily step count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We rarely hear stories in the press about people who use wearable technology that aren't young, fit and generally healthy. But Handler is far from alone in finding value in apps and activity trackers later in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New research is finding that seniors are monitoring their health using wearable trackers at similar rates as their younger counterparts. A recent \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://rockhealth.com/reports/digital-health-consumer-adoption-2015/\">survey\u003c/a> of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">4,017 Americans, conducted by \u003ca href=\"https://rockhealth.com/\">Rock Health\u003c/a>, found that demographic variables, like age and income, had no statistically significant effect on adoption of digital health. In other words, seniors are just as likely to use a Fitbit or Jawbone device as a millennial.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62089\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 302px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-62089\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-588x600.jpg\" alt=\"Elisabeth Handler sports her Fitbit Flex at this year's Pinot Noir harvest in the Santa Cruz mountains. \" width=\"302\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-588x600.jpg 588w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-400x409.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-1155x1180.jpg 1155w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-1180x1205.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-960x980.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth.jpg 1363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elisabeth Handler sports her Fitbit Flex at this year's Pinot Noir harvest in the Santa Cruz mountains. \u003ccite>(Elisabeth Handler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We were surprised, but pleased, that age wasn't a significant factor in determining adoption, because it implies that digital health technologies are reaching the senior population,” said Rock Health's Teresa Wang, one of the researchers behind the survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Can Seniors Benefit From Wearable Tech? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with several retired people over the age of 65, who said they had more time to tackle the health challenges they have been putting off for a lifetime. And wearable health trackers provided the data they needed to meet their goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was working, I always said I wanted to exercise,” said Janice Chow, a 66-year-old resident of Castro Valley who uses a Jawbone Up24 tracker. “Now that I’m retired, I have time to exercise twice a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow resumed regular exercise with activities she loved: Walking and hiking. She describes herself as \"technologically challenged,\" but when she received a wearable fitness tracker as a gift, she found it integrated easily into her workouts. It could tell her how many steps she had taken and how far she had hiked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her Jawbone device (and the several Fitbits she had previously lost) began inspiring her to do more. At its suggestion, she has integrated more dynamic activity into her workout regime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take aerobics because the Jawbone would tell me, ‘Try to get your heart rate up,’” Chow said. “I’m trying to tone my muscles and be healthier. It motivates me to do more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>'Awareness Around My Physical Life'\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handler has been relying on technology to manage her health for years now. When she needed a new hip 11 years ago, she turned to the Internet to find a surgeon. Today, she uses an online portal to access her health records, make appointments and email doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her most enthusiastically-adopted piece of technology will always be her health tracker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handler said her health habits began to evolve when she retired from a traditional career in favor of working from home as a consultant. She signed up for a 30-week health program through Kaiser in 2013, during which she abided by a rigorous supervised diet and bought a treadmill desk. She quickly became frustrated with tracking her workouts on paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had used pedometers in the past, but never felt like they were accurate enough. This time, she bought a Fitbit Flex, a thin wristband that can track factors like steps, calories burned and sleep patterns. She monitors the data it collects in an app called MyFitnessPal, which can also log her food consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“It [my activity tracker] gave me a really tangible, un-fudgeable, un-manipulatable way of being honest about what I’m doing.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Elisabeth Handler\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Handler eventually lost 50 pounds. She’s found it isn’t hard to keep active during the day if she keeps her exercise simple. During our interview, Handler admitted she was currently walking at a very slow speed on the treadmill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, the tracker was a very easy entry-point into kind of a whole ecosystem of awareness around my physical life,” Handler said. “It gave me a really tangible, un-fudgeable, un-manipulatable way of being honest about what I’m doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tracking Sleep\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Handler and Chow said their wearables helped them improve their sleep. In Chow’s case, the reports she received on her sleeping patterns helped her improve her quality of sleep. When Handler paired her step counts with overnight reports, she realized more activity led to better sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I have a high number of steps on Tuesday, Tuesday night I sleep better,” Handler said. “It’s a clear correlation. That to me was an enormous ‘aha.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next step is, of course, to track more. Handler is eyeing an upgrade that would allow her to monitor her heart rate. Chow would like to start logging her water consumption--something the Jawbone app keeps bugging her to do. But she’s not quite sure how to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My daughter says she’ll help me figure that out,”she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"New research is finding that seniors are monitoring their health using wearable trackers at similar rates as millennials. 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Handler wears the tracker on her wrist to monitor her daily step count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We rarely hear stories in the press about people who use wearable technology that aren't young, fit and generally healthy. But Handler is far from alone in finding value in apps and activity trackers later in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New research is finding that seniors are monitoring their health using wearable trackers at similar rates as their younger counterparts. A recent \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://rockhealth.com/reports/digital-health-consumer-adoption-2015/\">survey\u003c/a> of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">4,017 Americans, conducted by \u003ca href=\"https://rockhealth.com/\">Rock Health\u003c/a>, found that demographic variables, like age and income, had no statistically significant effect on adoption of digital health. In other words, seniors are just as likely to use a Fitbit or Jawbone device as a millennial.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62089\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 302px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-62089\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-588x600.jpg\" alt=\"Elisabeth Handler sports her Fitbit Flex at this year's Pinot Noir harvest in the Santa Cruz mountains. \" width=\"302\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-588x600.jpg 588w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-400x409.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-1155x1180.jpg 1155w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-1180x1205.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-960x980.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/elisabeth.jpg 1363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elisabeth Handler sports her Fitbit Flex at this year's Pinot Noir harvest in the Santa Cruz mountains. \u003ccite>(Elisabeth Handler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We were surprised, but pleased, that age wasn't a significant factor in determining adoption, because it implies that digital health technologies are reaching the senior population,” said Rock Health's Teresa Wang, one of the researchers behind the survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Can Seniors Benefit From Wearable Tech? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with several retired people over the age of 65, who said they had more time to tackle the health challenges they have been putting off for a lifetime. 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At its suggestion, she has integrated more dynamic activity into her workout regime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take aerobics because the Jawbone would tell me, ‘Try to get your heart rate up,’” Chow said. “I’m trying to tone my muscles and be healthier. It motivates me to do more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>'Awareness Around My Physical Life'\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handler has been relying on technology to manage her health for years now. When she needed a new hip 11 years ago, she turned to the Internet to find a surgeon. Today, she uses an online portal to access her health records, make appointments and email doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her most enthusiastically-adopted piece of technology will always be her health tracker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handler said her health habits began to evolve when she retired from a traditional career in favor of working from home as a consultant. She signed up for a 30-week health program through Kaiser in 2013, during which she abided by a rigorous supervised diet and bought a treadmill desk. She quickly became frustrated with tracking her workouts on paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had used pedometers in the past, but never felt like they were accurate enough. This time, she bought a Fitbit Flex, a thin wristband that can track factors like steps, calories burned and sleep patterns. She monitors the data it collects in an app called MyFitnessPal, which can also log her food consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“It [my activity tracker] gave me a really tangible, un-fudgeable, un-manipulatable way of being honest about what I’m doing.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Elisabeth Handler\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Handler eventually lost 50 pounds. She’s found it isn’t hard to keep active during the day if she keeps her exercise simple. 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