Senior Housing News November 16, 2020
Tim Mullaney

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is continuing its push into the older adult market with the launch of an Alexa app called Care Hub, as well new tools recently made available via Alexa for Hospitality.

These developments are notable for senior living providers because they offer some new capabilities for Echo devices deployed in communities, and show Amazon is further supporting older adults’ ability to age in place in their single-family homes.

Last week, Amazon rolled out Care Hub, which offers an array of features to enable remote connections and monitoring between older adults and their loved ones.

For example, the app offers an activity feed, showing how an older adult is interacting with an Amazon Echo device over the course of...

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