Insights and Inspiration


Beyond AgeTech, ChatGPT’s memory feature moves…
Conversation is becoming more interesting with ChatGPT 4.0. For one thing, with its memory feature enabled, it easily inhales everything the conversationalist has ever said online, or even excludes the speaker’s previous remarks upon request. How can this be helpful to older adults? A tool that learns from multiple sources, aggregates if desired into a

AI and remote monitoring will transform…
Moving in later can mean greater care needs, but same staffing levels. This article caught my eye – ‘Significantly more difficult’ to care for today’s assisted living residents. The gist of the story is that people are moving in later, now in their mid-80’s and often because living at home is untenable. Which means they

Soon AI Tech Agents will serve…
An AI tech agent on our behalf – predicted long ago. Consider the definition: “An AI agent is a system that perceives its environment, makes decisions, and takes actions to achieve specific goals, often autonomously.” At first look, that seems quite scary and is reminiscent of two quite predictive fictions: HAL 9000 in 2001 (“Sorry,

Future of AI and Home Care…
Data about care is becoming the backbone of home care best practice. In the past (and in some current settings) the home care worker has kept a book in the home for record keeping, bringing it in periodically to get paid. Today, organizations can use captured information about the home care situation, combining it with

Can AI help address future home…
Lifespan versus healthspan – a worrisome difference of 12.4 years in the US. While many older adults may live longer, well into their 80’s, they may be living with chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. That difference, known as healthspan, may be as much as 12.4 years in the US, the worst globally,