Fitbit Takes Aim at Chronic Conditions With New Health Care Platform

Hot on the heels of Apple’s recent play for seniors, wearable-technology company Fitbit (NYSE: FIT) is intensifying its efforts to prevent and manage certain chronic diseases. San Francisco-based Fitbit announced Wednesday the launch of Fitbit Care, a platform that combines health coaching and virtual care with Fitbit’s wearable devices to deliver personalized interventions. Though the […]

3 Untapped Technologies With High Value in Senior Housing

To increase resident satisfaction and attract more business, senior housing providers may want to focus on a few technologies that are not so common across the industry at the moment. Integrated fitness systems, resident locating technology, and telehealth appear to be in use at relatively few communities, but they are among the tech that residents […]

CVCs Investing in Next Wave of Senior Care Solutions

Corporate venture capital (CVC) is on the rise, partnering with an influx of startup businesses that aim to tackle the health care system’s biggest problems and innovate on trends that are critical to the senior care industry. With broad capabilities to invest in startups that are helping drive significant changes across the health care system, […]

With Startups Booming, Will Google Make a Senior Care Play?

As the senior care tech boom quickly builds to a crescendo, the success of cutting-edge startups could make room for mega companies like Google to have a stake in the senior living space. But industry professionals have differing viewpoints on what such a future might look like. At a time when investment dollars in senior […]