Health Populi July 20, 2023
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

“Digital technologies offer tremendous potential for shifting from traditional medical routines to remote medicine,” with the role of wearables playing a growing role in the new home care for healthy aging.

But what are the challenges of deploying this promising tech with older people keen to be independent at home? We learn a lot about prospects and challenges in Digital health for aging populations, a Perspective report in Nature Medicine‘s July 2023 issue.

An experienced team affiliated with the University of California San Diego shares their insights in this essay, which first lays out the portfolio of technologies and devices for health monitoring in older adults.

These are illustrated in the first graphic here snapped from the article, noting...

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Topics: Digital Health, Home, IoT (Internet of Things), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology, Telehealth, Wearables
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