Health Populi May 30, 2024
The vast majority of older people (95%) want to “age in place” — that is, stay put in their homes and avoid moving into long-term care residences or elsewhere. One approach for enabling aging-in-place is peoples’ adoption of various technologies, a topic surveyed by U.S. News & World Report.
In April 2024, U.S. News interviewed 1,500 U.S. adults ages 55 and over on their views toward technology and everyday life at home.
The first graphic from U.S. News’ study report, published earlier this month, shows that older people identified six categories of devices that have made it easiest to age in place:
- Medical and health-related mobile apps
- Services-related apps, like grocery store deliver
- Wearable medical or health trackers (a...
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