The tech industry’s hostility to aging “continues to violate common sense,” Joseph Coughlin, the director of M.I.T.’s AgeLab, told me.
Through advances focused on health care, home assistance, transportation, robotics and artificial intelligence, technology will be crucial to address the problems emerging from demographic imbalance.
“And yet they continue to ignore them.”What can Silicon Valley do for older people?
Many of these promise to allow older people a measure of independence from family caregivers or health care facilities.
There are companies that use in-home cameras, audio devices and biometric sensors to let health care providers monitor homebound seniors from afar, something like Life Alert for the digital age.
Persons:
“, ” Joseph Coughlin, —, ” Coughlin
Organizations:
Medicare
Locations:
Silicon, ”