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Aging and the New Home Health, Tech-Enabled – Learning from Nature

Health Populi

“Digital technologies offer tremendous potential for shifting from traditional medical routines to remote medicine,” with the role of wearables playing a growing role in the new home care for healthy aging. But what are the challenges of deploying this promising tech with older people keen to be independent at home?

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HIMSS22 EUROPE: ‘To change citizens’ health behaviour we need technology that creates delight’

Healthcare It News

“If we want the population to be healthy, we have to accept that health is a super holistic thing,” Kas told the delegates. The two most determining factors that will decide how old you will get are the age of your parents when they die and your postcode. Healthy cities.

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Mighty Health Raises $7.6M for Daily Health Program for Medicare-Aged Adults

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Mighty Health , the first all-in-one daily health program designed for adults ages 50 and up, today announced $7.6M in new financing co-led by Will Ventures and GFT Ventures. The app has supported more than 200,000 individuals to date, with exciting plans for expansion and new offerings.

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Evidation, USC Partner to Integrate Wearables Dataset for Healthy Aging Study

HIT Consultant

The goal of the partnership is to power research that will generate insights into healthy aging. Administered by USC, UAS offers rich data from a demographically diverse set of participants on topics varying from health and wellness, work, leisure, retirement, social issues, and aging.

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Trying and Sentencing Youth As Adults: Key Takeaways from Recent Petrie-Flom Center Event

Bill of Health

Panelists discussed these topics during a recent webinar hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Casey presented data that focused on ages 10 to 25 years to demonstrate observable changes in the brain’s capacity for change, also known as plasticity, throughout the emerging adolescence period.

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The Lonely Epidemic: Social Isolation and Technology

Healthcare IT Today

The National Academy of Sciences finds that 43% of adults over the age of 60 report feeling lonely. When conversation turns to depressing or difficult topics, the platform could prompt members to deal with the feelings more constructively. The Surgeon General advisory on youth points that out on page 6.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

Demographics collected included age, gender, race/ethnicity, and LGBTQ+ identity. The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. Compared with 2018, all online health search topics fell in engagement except for smoking/vaping. fielded between September and November 2020.

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