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GrandCare featured in “High Tech = High Touch”

A recent May 1 article in Health Data Management “High Tech = High Touch”, authored by Elizabeth Gardner, discusses the importance of technology for the senior population throughout the continuum of care and to help mitigate hospital readmissions.

She uses a few flagship technologies to exemplify how information technologies are helping individuals to stay healthy.

In a section titled “GRANDCARE: STAYING CONNECTED AT HOME“, Gardner interviews Evergreen, a Silicon Valley-based Long Term Care Provider utilizing the GrandCare solution, GrandCare’s VP of Business Development, Laura Mitchell and GrandCare’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Erick Eiting.

Excerpt of the article:

A profusion of technologies can help people stay in their homes as they age, despite physical and mental disabilities: monitors and sensors to track vital signs and movement, the Internet for communication and entertainment, smart home features to control lights and temperature. However, tying them all together is a challenge beyond most elderly people and even the younger family members who may be caring for them.

That’s where GrandCare Systems, West Bend, Wisc., comes in. Started nine years ago, its goal is “to keep individuals safe, happy and independent at home, whatever that means,” says Laura Mitchell, vice president of business development.

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“I have a 95-year-old resident who reads bedtime stories every night to her great grandchild in Florida,” he says. “She just has to press the button with his picture and they’re connected. No turning anything on, logging in or memorizing phone numbers.”

GrandCare Chief Medical Officer Erick Eiting, M.D., who’s also assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Southern California, thinks the system’s monitoring capabilities will be invaluable for improving communication between patients and their medical team.

“We can look at whether you’re taking your meds when you should be, and if not, why not,” he says. Problems with side effects can be headed off without requiring an office visit.

“We had one CHF patient who thought he was taking his meds, but we could see he wasn’t taking the evening dose of his diuretic,” Eiting says. “When we asked him why, he said it made him have to get up and go to the bathroom during the night. We increased his morning dose and that fixed it.”

Click here to view the entire article

GrandCare slated to speak at LeadingAge Missouri May 2nd

May 2nd 2014
From 8:00 AM until 6:30 PM

Hampton Inn & Suites
1225 Fellows Place
Columbia, MO 65201

2014 LeadingAge Missouri’s first-ever Technology Summit. Let us help you get up to speed on new technology, innovations and emerging trends to help you in the Long Term Care realm.

Contact: Christy Stretz
christystretz@leadingagemissouri.org
Phone: 573-635-6244

“The Empowered Caregiver: Long Term Care goes Digital” Presented by Laura Mitchell, VP of Business Development, GrandCare Systems

Laura Mitchell, VP Business Development, GrandCare Systems

Laura Mitchell, VP Business Development, GrandCare Systems

Digital health, social engagement and remote monitoring technologies are designed to not only create a better care experience for seniors and their families, but perhaps more importantly, to enhance the way professionals can manage the daily care needs of their clients. The aging population is continuing to rise while the number of care providers and brick and mortar cannot keep up. Armed with enabling remote monitoring technology tools, professional caregiving staff will be turned into “SUPER CAREGIVERS”, being privy to more predictive, proactive and preventative information for clients within a community or beyond, in their own homes. In this session, you will learn about available technology solutions, best practices for better client outcomes and new revenue opportunities!

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JOIN CEDIA WEBINAR “Technologies and Opportunities that can Keep Your Bottom Line off Life Support”

Join us LIVE October 18th 1-2 pm ET

Home Health Care: Technologies and Opportunities that can Keep Your Bottom Line off of Life Support

Featuring Jeff Makowka (AARP) and Laura Mitchell (GrandCare Systems)

Space is limited, click here to register now. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. 

If you haven’t noticed, home health care is for real. It’s almost impossible to make a daily commute without seeing a vehicle sporting some type of graphic advertising “in home care.” According to Aging in Place Technology Watch, the Aging/Technology industry is projected to be greater than $20 billion by 2020. As the current population for the United States continues to age, many consumers are demanding a brand new model of health care; they want it brought to them.

This one hour webinar will break down the market, explore available technology solutions, such as Crisis Management, Activity & Smart Home monitoring, Digital Health, Medication Management, Brain Fitness and Socialization technologies and the expertise required to become involved. Join GrandCare’s Laura Mitchell and AARP’s Jeff Makowka as they pin point the integrator’s role in this landscape and tips for redefining your business model.

At the end of this session participants should be able to:

  • Outline the impact the aging population is having on health care in the home.
  • Describe the different technologies currently being leveraged to enable elderly consumers to stay in their homes longer.
  • Explain the financial opportunities presented by this emerging industry.
  • List critical items to consider when integrating home health offerings into an existing integration business.

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Laurie Orlov predicts GrandCare will benefit from software-based design

Laurie Orlov had a great newsletter this month with a number of aging/technology industry predictions.

She mentions GrandCare Systems as a software-based platform that she predicts will benefit from the innate architecture and structure of the GrandCare technology.

“PREDICTION – mHEALTH REVIVES MONITORING:  The stationary nature of in-home activity and telehealth monitoring will give way to a disconnect-and-go tablet world that can be docked at home and plays nicely with a cell/smart cellular model. For those walking the floors at CES, you will see tablet apps of every type flowering hither and yon – perhaps you’ll see them tether to a phone. RIM, the anti-marketer, produced an early version of this with the Playbook-BlackBerry tethering. Why not a few tablet apps for seniors (in addition to health and activity monitoring) that sync up with a phone-like device? It may be like trying to cram a large box into a flat rectangle, to start at the hardware end — look at Care Innovations Guide, for example. Why not a partnership between a fitness device vendor (like Fitbit or Philips DirectLife) and a remote monitoring vendor like BeClose or Healthsense?  And software-only products like Independa and GrandCare may well benefit from both platform flexibility and a new interest in combining activity sensors and health monitoring.”

Read the entire newsletter here

Intel/GE recognizes the HUGE importance of linking socialization to remote monitoring…we’re obviously on the right track!!!!

This is great news, seeing the big giants like GE & Intel embracing and realizing the value of socialization, reminders and cognition (being equally important to the wellness & ADL monitoring). QuietCare was bleeding edge, I would venture to say they were the first ones to really get out there with their Activity of Daily Living remote monitoring system back in 2005.  GrandCare & HealthSense were not far behind. The three of us watched each other, paved roads for one another and learned from each other. I am so glad that QuietCare is being used in this venture, it really is a great system. GrandCare founder, Charlie Hillman, was so visionary back in 2005 – being the first to combine socialization/cognition along with ADL monitoring into one system. Funny thing is, even I (at the time) didn’t “get it” – didn’t see why it would be so important to have that “GrandCare Communication Station”, which of course has turned into the interactive touchscreen/video chat… Think of how far we all have come since 2005, especially with all of the new players in this market and the new focus to the digital home health field. I see great things happening every day in this industry and look forward to what the future will bring…

 

Take a look at Laurie Orlov’s blog entry on this:

Care Innovations Connect Makes Telehealth Social

Submitted by Laurie Orlov on Wed, 07/20/2011 – 09:49

http://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/care-innovations-connect-makes-telehealth-social

Care Innovations — tackling social isolation and wellness.  In some ways, yesterday’s launch of Connect from Intel-GE’s wholly owned Care Innovationjoint venture should come as no surprise. When the companies combined last year, spun out of Intel’s Digital Health group and GE’s QuietCare business units, I was hopeful that they would transcend limitations of the previous parents. Especially given Intel’s investment history of researching social needs of seniors, Omar Ishrak’s comment last August really resonated: “We recognize that the conditions faced by home health patients are not necessarily clinical. It is part of our core mission [in the Joint Venture] to address social and support needs.”

Beyond patient to the person behind the monitoring.  A touch-screen device placed in the home enables a senior to have access to social networks, customized content, news, and also wellness surveys that are typical of telehealth devices – which historically have been useful for health providers, proven beneficial to seniors with chronic disease (reducing those dreaded re-hospitalizations).  But fun, social, two-way experiences, as much about enabling a senior to see out as well as caregivers see in? When the person is viewed as a patient, that can’t happen. Care Innovations’ Connect targets the person (and patient to a lesser degree) in a device paradigm that, for now, can be useful to frail seniors. When I chatted with him a few days ago, Care Innovations GM James Pursley did not rule out the possibility that future versions may take advantage of growing tablet mania – placing Connect as a starting point in the evolution of technologies that will connect caregivers, providers, and seniors together – as it must be.

Tech platforms are transitory – vendors must pick a platform for now. We are in yet another platform shift today – recognizing that a relatively small percentage of the frailest seniors are comfortable with computers or have high-speed data plans, for that matter, so dedicated appliance solutions make sense during the transition – Sonamba’s Wellbeing Monitor uses a picture frame paradigm to provide similar social connection functionality as  Connect. Other vendors, including Independa’s recently launched Angela targets the same market by customizing software into an ‘off-the-shelf’ tablet that also enables video chat.

Despite tech paradigms shift, products must launch.  In some ways, it is a particularly murky and complex time to be launching technologies in this market.  Complicated channel strategies must parse a fragmented prospective audience –healthcare? Senior housing? How to reach families? What about home security and electronics dealers – are they vested and interested in this space? Can they reach the last few feet into the home?  Today’s PERS pendant/service (a market that’s been around FOREVER) may migrate right onto a smartphone, Telehealth devices may migrate to tablets (Dell thinks so and doctors ‘embrace’ the iPad), and there’s the television, sitting not so quietly in the corner of every senior’s living room – maybe a future social engagement device that is (comparatively speaking) designed for all.  Designing for all (including the loneliest seniors in nursing homes or their own homes) is what vendors must do.  Emerging markets reflect flux in both user willingness, channel interest, and market readiness.  Let’s applaud Care Innovations – and its Intel/GE backers! They validate and verify the value this market brings to the lives of older adults.

GrandCare’s VP of Marketing, Laura Mitchell, selected as Venture Boomer Summit Business Plan JUDGE

http://www.scuboomerventure.com/competitions/judges.html

Business Plan Competition!!!!!

PRIZES

Best Business Plan
$10,000

Best App
$1,000

Finalists will present their business plans to a panel of industry experts at the Summit on June 15, 2011 and the winners will be announced at the end of the day.

JUDGES

Leaders in the field of aging, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and industry analysts will provide valuable feedback on the entrepreneurs’ boomer business plans and apps. Check back soon for the list of judges participating in the 2011 event.

Finalist Judges

Andy Cohen – CEO and Co-founder, Caring.com
Andy Donner – Director, Physic Ventures
Jody Holtzman – Senior Vice President, Thought Leadership, AARP
Kurt Hulander – Platform Leader, Health Solutions, Best Buy
Nancy Kamei – Sector Director, Intel Capital
Xander Mahony – Analyst, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Jeff Shoemate – Vice President of Innovation and Business Development, United Healthcare

First and Second Round Judges

Susan Ayers Walker – Managing Director, SmartSilvers Alliance
Laura Mitchell – Vice President, Marketing, GrandCare Systems
Michael Sarfatti – Managing Director, SmartSilvers Alliance

Smart Money Magazine asks us – can aging be stylish?

Yesterday, Smart Money Magazine posted an article: Can a Medic Alert System be Stylish. They discussed grab bars, Personal Emergency Response Systems, Wearable Pendants, etc. GMU’s Andy Carle, Age in Place Tech Watch’s Laurie Orlov and AgeTek’s own Peter Radsliff all weighed in on solutions and adoption of technology to “age in place”.

I think this is a very important topic to address. People don’t want to use systems/devices that make them “feel” geriatric, old or disabled. That is the reason that the systems need to be viewed more like we view every day conveniences..think of railings on stairs, alarm clocks, smart phones, online calendar/reminders, appointment books, etc. All of these we use every day because they are helpful and they assist EVERYONE. Systems that enable a person to stay independent and at home should be viewed in a similar fashion. Nobody wants to have the scarlet pendant of aging, instead they want to be able to self-enable with gadgets, technologies, design, etc. If we design systems like GrandCare Systems that has many features that ANYBODY would enjoy, it is much more likely that a person will accept. I use GrandCare Systems in my home every day and my two toddler boys do too. We use it for different reasons, using the same alerts, cognitive assists, reminders, family calendar, etc that the system provides. Everyone benefits from convenience, safety, communication, etc. (Think of the iPad). I would NEVER be able to keep track of my schedule without my iPhone reminding me of EVERYTHING. Why should it be so different with non tech-savvy individuals? Check out my entry on why I believe Gen X-ers should also be adopting these technologies as early adopters: http://wp.me/pyOLA-dx Thanks for the article – short answer: YES, aging can and SHOULD be stylish and graceful! Laura Mitchell GrandCare Systems www.grandcare.com

What are your thoughts???

Read their article here: Can a Medic Alert System Be Stylish? – SmartMoney.com http://www.smartmoney.com/spending/technology/now-in-vogue-grandpas-gadgets-1299712884177/#ixzz1GJrWJD00

The ‘Aging-in-Place’ Opportunity featuring aging technologies like GrandCare Systems

The ‘Aging-in-Place’ Opportunity
By Dan Daley, February 1, 2011

Aging Technologies
Presto’s products convert electronic communications from family into printed multimedia letters for seniors.
Why Digital Home Health Care Technology May Be Good for Your Business
We’re getting older, and that’s good. That was the message from the dais at the Digital Home Health Panel that took place during CEDIA EXPO in Atlanta this past September. More specifically, referencing data that shows 70 million Americans reaching senior status by 2030, Ken Kerr, president and CEO at Home Controls, which distributes Grandcare, Presto, and ClearSound elderly care and connectivity devices, put it bluntly: “New needs in huge numbers in an aging population equals new opportunities.”

That was the point that a half dozen or so technology companies that are targeting the home health care industry wanted to get across. All market sectors start off small, and if home health care does develop into a major source of revenue for residential systems integrators, the approximately 50 systems specialists who comprised the panel’s audience might be looked back on as the beginnings of the small army that the product manufacturers and distributors believe will grow into in the coming two decades.

In contrast to the acrimonious health care insurance debate that took place a year earlier, proponents of home health care technology got down to the economic brass tacks early on. Kerr compared the cost of assisted living or nursing home stays–he cited the approximately $75,000 it costs to maintain one person annually in a nursing home environment–with the cost of outfitting a home with sensors that monitor, record, and transmit information about location, medications, and other key daily necessities and said it would be a fraction of the ongoing costs of living outside the home.

“That’s the value proposition to the customer,” Kerr explained. But the numbers are equally good for the integrators that will sell and install those technology products. “Digital home health products are not yet commoditized, so the margins are very, very good right now, like the home theater business when it started out,” Kerr pointed out.

What Integrators Will Need To Know
Aging-in-place as a systems proposition is most analogous to security integration; in addition to the sale and installation of technology products, there is also a recurring revenue stream derived from monitoring data recorded and transmitted by system sensors. These system/monitoring combinations, from companies like Grandcare and Halo Monitoring’s MyHalo fall-detection system, will be worth $20 billion in North America by 2020, according to Laurie Orlov, founder of the Aging in Place Technology watch blog. Grandcare’s system is an example of the active system/monitoring approach that will take the place of, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” passive alert transmitters.

Motion sensors–wireless X10 and Z-wave modules work on the Grandcare system–placed around an elderly parent’s home will send to the caregiver’s laptop or PC information about the occupant’s movements, or lack thereof. That information is important, said Charles Hillman, CEO at Grandcare.
“If someone gets up to use that bathroom in the middle of the night, you expect them to be back in bed within a few minutes,” Hillman said. “If they’re not back in certain amount of time, an alert is sent to the person who monitors them.” The same type of information is also recorded and sent by active pillboxes that show the occupant what to take and when to take it, as well as indicate to the caregiver that the medication has been dispensed.
Programming is typically of the “if this, then that…” type: door sensors can be programmed so that if a particular door is opened between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m., an e-mail or text notification is sent to the caregiver. Blood pressure and weight information are also sent via Bluetooth to Grandcare’s main processor, which includes a display large enough to be read by aging eyes, and then on to the caregiver. However, they will have to learn what to watch for and which bits of information are significant. For instance, Hillman points out that a gain of eight pounds in three days could be an indication of impending congestive heart failure. Thus, user education will play an important role in the successful application of these systems.

The cost of these systems is within reach of many if not most families; a typical Grandcare system will cost between $3,000 and $8,000, plus a $49 charge per month for monitoring services. However, that cost may still be out of the reach of a substantial number of seniors and their families. That’s where Medicaid and Medicare, the federal health systems, come into play, or not… Home healthcare technology is still so novel that it hasn’t been approved by federal administrators. “[Medicare approval] is going to be a state-by-state situation,” Hillman told the CEDIA audience, noting that the federal programs are administered by the states.
Another pitfall that systems integrators will have to reckon with will be liability issues, including system performance and access to a customer’s medical records, which could potentially run afoul of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulation (see sidebar).

Health insurance coverage of aging-in-place technology may fall in line with whatever federal overseers decide on the subject, so that outcome will take some time to manifest itself. However, longterm care insurance may become a factor sooner. “Long-term care insurance companies have been collecting premiums for years now, and it’s going to come time soon for them to start paying out,” Hillman said. “Covering aging-in-place technology will result in lower overall payouts in the long run.”

And that was an underlying theme throughout the presentations: the fact that, as America’s population ages, the existing healthcare proposition will no longer be able to viably support it.

GC HomeBase
Motion sensors–wireless X10 and Z-wave modules work on the Grandcare system–placed around an elderly parent’s home will send to the caregiver’s laptop or PC information about the occupant’s movements, or lack thereof.

The Psychology of the Sale
While much of home health care’s technologies are based on systems similar to those currently used in home automation, there are significant differences in the culture of that technology. For instance, where home technologies are viewed as a mostly male domain but subject to the industry’s quaint but nonetheless very real “wife acceptance factor,” decisions made about agingin- place technologies will be heavily weighted toward female family members, because women tend to take on the caregiver role. The target demographic for these types of systems will be 45 to 65 years old, says Peter Radsliff, president and CEO of Presto, whose product converts electronic communications from family into printed multimedia letters for seniors.

“The family caregiver is usually the oldest daughter, and she’s the quarterback when it comes to choosing healthcare systems,” he said. “But it’s always going to be a multigenerational sale.”
The psychology of the systems sale is similarly affected; the buyer isn’t generally the person being monitored but the person or persons doing the monitoring. Technology can be used not only to assure a senior’s safety but also to assuage the guilt that family members who now live in other parts of the country can feel about not being nearby anymore.

“The family may feel guilty about lessening the connection between themselves and the senior members of the family,” Kerr said. “Technology can help bridge that gap.”
That brings up an interesting element of aging-in-place as an integration sector. Several products integrate social networking features. Grandcare’s GC Trillium processor lets family members and seniors send and receive pictures, voicemails, letters, videos, and music, as well as brain fitness games in what Grandcare’s director of business relations Laura Mitchell says is a “nonintimidating technology solution.”

Jack York, president of It’s Never 2 Late, a Colorado-based company that creates customized computer systems with therapeutic and entertainment content for use in nursing homes, assisted-living communities and adult-day programs, says companies that have tried to develop the aging-in-place market and failed had focused too much on the technology.
“We’ve seen many of them come and go because they think it’s the technology that will sell the idea,” the former Silicon Valley entrepreneur said as part of a presentation titled, “Connecting The Greatest Generation.” “The reality is, you need to connect on the personal level. You need engagement software that can connect people as well as offer person-centered therapy to help stabilize cognitive decline.”

Hillman agreed, stating, “Socialization is the Trojan Horse; it gets the senior past the technology aversion. It’s the connectivity that will sell to the senior.”

All of the companies that made up the home health care pavilion at the CEDIA Show are small, independent firms. Some are also obvious candidates to become the entry point into home health care technology for larger companies by way of mergers and acquisitions. Larger entities, however, are also beginning to target this emerging sector. In August, technology giants Intel and GE announced a 50/50 joint venture to develop and market products, services, and technologies that promote healthy, independent living at home and in assisted living communities, though these are commercial propositions aimed at connecting seniors at home with institutional caregivers. There’s also interest stirring in technological academic circles: at CEDIA, Georgia Tech showed a prototype of a bathroom mirror that can monitor and analyze skin tone using IR scanning, which can alert users to potential skin cancers and other diseases.

Ken Kerr
Ken Kerr, president and CEO at Home Controls, which distributes Grandcare, Presto, and ClearSound elderly care and connectivity devices, puts it bluntly: “New needs in huge numbers in an aging population equals new opportunities.”

The residential systems industry is beginning to take notice. In September, the CEA added an awards category for Home Health Products to its Mark of Excellence Awards. The upper tier of residential systems manufacturers is aware of the potential for an aging-in-place market, and there’s been some proactivity in that regard, such as ELAN’s contribution of automation components for the Eskaton National Demonstration Home in Sacramento, California. But they likely will not be market makers.

“The bigger you are, the longer you wait for new markets to emerge,” Joe Lautner, manager of business development and product management at ELAN, said candidly. But Lautner says the agingin- place market is one that is high on his agenda to monitor, which he’s doing by talking with insurance companies and the CEA. “We’re trying to test the market, to get stuff in front of seniors and see what we can learn from it and what dealers can make money on,” he said. “We have to build a business case first.”

Thus, the group of independent companies that gathered at CEDIA is the point of the residential home-care technology spear, collectively focused on using technology to keep seniors safely in their homes longer and connected to family. They have a reason to be bullish on that opportunity. As Peter Radsliff of Presto put it, “This is market that’s not going to start contracting anytime soon.”

What You Need to Know About Privacy Rules
When integrating an aging in place system, ES Cs will have to consider liability issues, including system performance and access to a customer’s medical records, which could potentially run afoul of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA ) regulation. This rule sets national standards for the security of electronic protected health information, and the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Rule protect identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety events and improve patient safety. Grandcare CEO Charles Hillman suggests that integrators anticipate these issues and have waivers for clients to sign ready as part of project documentation. “I’d also suggest involving the family as much as possible in this,” he added, noting that they can open doors to government and healthcare agencies, thus cutting through some of the bureaucracy.

A Few Questions To Ask Yourself
Peter Radsliff

Peter Radsliff, CEO of senior connectivity device maker Presto and nominal head of the home healthcare technology trade group AGETEK, says these are the issues that integrators need to address as they consider the agingin- place market.
■ Do you need new skills, and if so, how to acquire them? Will it be via new training or by adding new personnel?
■ Will you need a new brand or division to enter the market? “You may want to differentiate your home theater or automation business from this,” he said. “A separate brand may make you more credible in the senior market.” It may also help you leverage an existing client base.
■ Who will do the selling? “In many cases it might be better to bring in someone who has healthcare sales experience,” he suggested.
■ Will you sell into residential or commercial markets, or both? Unlike other systems sectors, home healthcare technology’s lines are blurred as more seniors move into assisted living homes and independent living facilities, where homes are part of larger communities.

CEDIA Sees Huge Opportunity in Home Health Care
Noting that many ES Cs are of an age when family members begin to require extra health attention and referencing a family member of his own in that situation, Dave Pedigo, senior director of technology for CEDIA , says that home health care and aging-in-place technology represents “a huge opportunity for systems integrators.”

Pedigo says the first-ever health care technology pavilion indicates CEDIA ’s belief in the potential for the sector, and he confirmed that the organization is working in tandem with home health care manufacturers’ trade group AGETE K to develop the market. However, he cautioned, significant legislative and regulatory issues remain to be addressed, such as insurance and Medicare coverage of technology products and installation, and complex liability issues for ES Cs. But, Pedigo concluded, “I think we’ll look back a few years from now at this year’s CEDIA show and realize this was the beginning of a potentially very big new market, one in which ES Cs can do well with by doing good.”

Dan Daley is a freelance writer in Nashville, Tennessee.

12-9-10 Thursday Webinar: Laurie Orlov from Aging in Place Technology Watch speaks

GrandCare Systems 12-9-10 Webinar
We meet here: http://my.dimdim.com/grandcare
on Thursday December 9th, 2pm EDT (1p CT).

Topic: Laurie Orlov from Aging in Place Technology Watch speaks on 10 tips for launching a new product line
It’s getting to be that time of year. January 2011 is a unique moment in time when the first of the baby boomers become seniors, turning 65 at the rate of 10,000 per day from that day forward. Laurie shares 10 tips to successfully launch a new product line in the aging technology industry.

Our Speaker: Laurie Orlov
Laurie M. Orlov, a tech industry veteran, writer, speaker and elder care advocate, is the founder of a market research firm that provides thought leadership, analysis and guidance about technologies and related services that enable boomers and seniors to remain longer in their home of choice. In addition to her technology background and years as a technology industry analyst, Laurie served as a volunteer long-term care ombudsman and is certified in Geriatric Care Management from the University of Florida and the author of Aging in Place Technology Watch, When Your Parents Need Elder Care.

Laurie Orlov speaks on Caregiving Technology: What’s New

Every Thursday at 2p ET (1p CT), GrandCare Systems hosts an aging & technology industry call.

This Thursday, 8-19-10

TOPIC: Laurie Orlov, Aging in Place Technology Watch speaks on Caregiving Technology — What’s New?

Join us: http://my.dimdim.com/grandcare
Optional Dial In listed on the webinar

8-19-10 Call sponsored by Added Care Services. Co-sponsored by Celery & Home Controls.

Laurie M. Orlov, a tech industry veteran, writer, speaker and elder care advocate, is the founder of Aging in Place Technology Watch, a market research firm that provides thought leadership, analysis and guidance about technologies and related services that enable boomers and seniors to remain longer in their home of choice. In addition to her technology background and years as a technology industry analyst, Laurie served as a volunteer long-term care ombudsman and is certified in Geriatric Care Management from the University of Florida and the author of When Your Parents Need Elder Care.