More Quality Life
Don't let growing older get in the way
Use our independent, objective, analysis, product evaluations, and explorations to make the challenges of growing older less challenging — for you, or for older adults you care about. Spend more time doing what you love to do, and less time searching for solutions and worrying.
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Welcome to Tech-enhanced Life, and the Longevity Explorers. Members can listen to our Explorer discussions, browse the latest content from our community, and search for useful products and resources to improve the quality of life of older adults and their families.
Featured: Actionable Insights
We kept getting asked "which medical alert system is best?"; and "how do I choose the right medical alert system for me?". This independent, objective, hands-on research tries to answer those questions. If you are looking for a medical alert system, either for yourself or for an older adult such as a parent, this piece of research is for you. .........Read more
Unlock the potential of your smartphone or tablet to improve your life.
The Useful Apps Club is for older adults and Boomers who have a smartphone or tablet (or are thinking of getting one) and need help to turn it into a useful tool. We are focused on finding Apps that can change your life, and teaching you how to use them. .........Read more
Read our report on this new category of products, designed to help seniors stay at home longer, and to help their families worry about them less. There are important lessons to be learned about which ones work, and for which types of circumstance they are optimal. .........Read more
Examples: Explorations, Analysis, Expert Opinion
"Getting Around" is the first theme we are exploring in our "Useful Apps for Older Adults" initiative. Being free to get from one place to another when you want is a very important ingredient of an independent life. We think there are some Apps that can make that easier and more convenient. .........Read more
After weeks of testing multiple different "mobile alert systems" (personal emergency response systems), here are the results. We looked at appearance, ease of use, speed to respond when we pressed the "help" button, how well the "location capability" worked in various different locations, battery life, sound quality, price, and more. While none of the products was "perfect", several worked rather well. But some fell short. .........Read more
At a conference organized by San Francisco's Institute on Aging, I ran an interactive "exploration", in which we asked attendees to vote on "Senior Apps they Like", or to submit ideas they have for "There should be an App for that... .........Read more
For Whom is this Site?
For Older Adults
More quality life.
Members can access tools and insights designed to help older adults:
- improve their quality of life today;
- postpone the day when functional decline gets in the way of living life to the full;
- live independently for longer.
For Family & Friends
Worry less. Help more.
Use our tools & insights to do a better job of helping your parents as they age.
Spend more time enjoying their company, or taking care of other responsibilities, and less time researching topics like emergency response pendants, hearing aids, living wills, and all those topics you never thought you would need to learn about.
For Explorers
Make a Difference.
Longevity Explorers are older adults, and their friends of all ages, who want to make a difference. We meet in face-to-face groups to explore new products and services at the intersection of aging and technology, and to explore unmet needs and challenges of growing older. We share what we learn online with the larger Tech-enhanced Life community.