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Portable Mobility Devices

Explorer Rosalie describes a portable motorized mobility device that folds to a compact size, and one that she has often seen used on shipboard.

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portable wheelchair, motorized foldable transport

 

What Makes Design for Elders Different?

Explorer Steve leads off this discussion of the importance of knowing the problems of older adults when designing products for the 'senior' marketplace.

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Design for elders

 

A Few Minutes Brainstorming Our Own Topic Ideas

For the last part of our inaugural Explorer meeting, after listening to and lightly discussing a variety of aging topics explored by other LE groups, we spent a little time talking about what aging topics we were interested in further exploring in the future. A wide variety of possibilities were...

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Cincinnati

 

Should I Volunteer for Medical Research Studies?

An Explorer introduces the idea of volunteering for medical research projects to the group.

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research project

 

First Cincinnati Longevity Explorer Meeting

This is an audio segment from the first Longevity Explorer meeting for the Cincinnati circle held in March, 2019. For this meeting, since all of us were new, we purposely took a more basic and introductory approach in our agenda.  Instead of more in-depth discussions and explorations on a few...

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Cincinnati Longevity Explorers

 

What's Next in My Life?

The San Francisco Longevity Explorers' group addresses the overall subject of "What's Next in Life?". 

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Next life adventure

 

De-cluttering: How Do I Get Started?

Explorer Marty poses a question to the group to gather some ideas about how to dispose of excess household items accumulated over a lifetime.

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De-cluttering

 

Rich's New Apple Watch

Explorer Rich shows the group his new Apple Watch and describes features that he particularly likes.

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Apple Watch

 

SRC Explorers View the Echo Show and Respond

The Saratoga Explorers are introduced to the Echo Show, an enhancement by Amazon of the Echo family of voice operated AI devices, which now features a display screen.

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Echo 2 Show

 

University Student Team Focuses on Alexa and Aging

The SF Explorer Circle is asked to consider and comment on a series of questions that Tech-enhanced Life, PBC, has been sent to help a team of university students refine a business plan entry for a competition.

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AI and Aging

 

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