The future of aging….with Technology

It’s a global issue. Rising healthcare costs, looming age wave, increasing longevity bringing multiple illnesses and forgetfulness alongside older adult children who are sandwiched between aging parents and their own adult children and grandchildren. As a result, the way we care for our parents today will not scale with the same level of care, to meet tomorrow’s needs without the use of technology.  

Technology solutions offer the answer to improve both the quality of care and a way to keep health care costs from rising out of reach.   Our generation is used to using Technology in many facets of our lives already  by way of email, internet, cell phones, music, online shopping etc... 

So now is the time to advocate for technology to transform the future for an aging population and now is the time to investigate the exciting technologies that already exist on the market. New health and wellness technologies will continue to be developed to offer the potential of dramatically improving the quality of care we can provide and the cost of providing that care. However, the right vision, the right leadership, a certain amount of pressure to obtain the right commitment from government to prepare needs to be in place.

Leading Age is a US association of some 5,400 non profit organizations and 38 State partners in the US along with hundreds of businesses, research partners and consumer organizations that recognize the need for advocacy, leadership development, research, promotion, hospice care, additional community services and housing and technology solutions  and research. They Inspire, Serve, Advocate and Acknowledge their members.

These are 2 of the videos from Leading Age on the Future of Aging

The Future of Aging-One Family at a time

How to transorm an aging nation