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Dear Colleagues,
It is exciting to see investors continue to pivot into the longevity market! Talent migration into this field continues to happen as people are beginning to experience aging and caregiving themselves.
I am particularly happy to see the growth of
Outpatient, a mobile app for family caregivers and
PS Salon & Spa, the leading national senior community salon and spa provider. This month we are also showcasing the work of
VitalTech, an integrated digital health platform. Visit our blog page
here to learn more
about the upcoming launch of their third generation of senior wearables and how their company is improving health and wellbeing for older adults.
Don't forget that our 2nd Annual
Washington Innovation in Longevity Summit is fast approaching.
Our theme this year is Mobility, Money, Memory, and Military. We are thrilled to announce that the following speakers will join us:
See the full speaker list on the Summit website
here.
Hope to see you there!
Warmly,
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Washington DC Innovation Summit
20% off your ticket with code: dc19fom20
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Seasoned Elder Care Exec
Joins Aloe Care Health Team
Aloe Care Health has hired seasoned industry expert Bern Terry to drive strategic partnerships. Currently in Beta, Aloe Care recently began accepting pre-orders nationally for their new
wearable-free, communication and safety
solution. Under Terry's purview,
a number of the leading home care and assisted living providers serving more than 850,000 families are now working with Aloe Care.
Read the full press release.
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American Heart Association and
LifePod Announce New Study
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JT Smith Joins myFamilyChannel as Interim COO
JT Smith has joined
myFamilyChannel as interim COO. JT has recently retired as COO Philips North America, and will be helping the mFC team to improve operations, accelerate growth and align with strategic partners. He shared his excitement about joining the team saying, "
Lots of people have tried to connect seniors with technology without success. But Todd and the mFC team have broken the technology barrier so that older adults can enjoy some of the benefits of social media in an easy and non-intimidating way." Read the full announcement here.
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Aging2.0 Paris Workshop with Mary Furlong
Save the date! Mary Furlong will be speaking at the Aging2.0 Paris Chapter's workshop event titled,
"How Americans are Investing in the Silver Economy" on
Monday, October 7th. She will discuss the major investment trends in the American longevity economy.
This meeting will take place at Silver Innov', the only startup incubator exclusively dedicated to the silver economy in France. Registration details are available
here.
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Family Caregiving News From AARP
On Tuesday, September 10th, AARP hosted The Price of Caring 2019 Executive Summit in Washington, DC and announced important survey results about the in-store shopping struggles of family caregivers. Findings suggest that 31% of America's approximately 40 million unpaid family caregivers struggle when shopping in a store. This was just one topic of the many covered during the Summit which highlighted the needs of caregivers as constituents, employees, community members and consumers. AARP also released their Family Caregiving Consumer Insights Guide. You can also view the full recording of the Summit here.
To stay up-to-date with all family caregiving news, including a video recording from the Summit, make sure you've subscribed to AARP's Family Caregiving Insider Newsletter. This new digest is for the policy-makers, practitioners, advocates, leaders of the industry, media, and communities who have the power to change the conditions in which America's family caregivers live, work, and care every day.
Email
caregiving@aarp.org
to subscribe.
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Hospice Training with Embodied Labs
A recent Hospice News
article
outlines the partnership between Embodied Labs and the Hospice of Southern Maine and how they collaborated to create an educational end-of-life virtual reality module. The three-part program they created is known as the "Clay Lab" because participants take on the role of Clay, a 66-year-old veteran with incurable lung cancer.
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Upward Labs Announces Demo Day
Upward Labs
invites you to immerse yourself in a live DEMO DAY experience at Upward Hartford on October 22 where you will EXPERIENCE and test the innovative Smart Buildings and Aged Care technologies that the current cohort have been piloting for the last six months. Upward Labs' Demo Day will be unlike any other in that you will travel through a fully-immersive exhibition of the different and disruptive technologies and experience as they all come together to build the future of two critical industries that affect every individual and every business.
For more information and/or to register,
click here
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