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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
Medical Alert Systems: Help!
We kept getting asked "which medical alert systems are 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 medical alert systems, either for yourself or for an older adult such as a parent, this piece of research is for you.
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The "Useful Apps Club"
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.
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Caring from Afar: Guide to Home Sensor Systems
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.
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Examples: Explorations, Analysis, Expert Opinion
The "Getting Around" App Portfolio
"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.
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Get A Ride Anywhere - New Options for Older Adults
This article is about some exciting new alternatives that make getting from point A to point B by car much easier than in the past for those who don't want to, or are not able to, just jump in their own car. We consider Uber, Lyft, Flywheel, taxicabs, and recommend the best rideshare app for older adults.
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Alzheimer's Thermostat Design: Jeeves vs. Nurse Ratched
Remember Jeeves, and Nurse Ratched? Imagine they were in charge of designing products for older adults. I wish we had the sort of products I imagine Jeeves would have designed for Bertie Wooster. Unfortunately, we seem to get the products Nurse Ratched might have dreamed up for the unfortunate...
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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.