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Assisted living has declined — According to AARP 90% of elders are preferring to stay at home

A caregiver includes an elder’s adult children, who typically have full time jobs and are unable to monitor the elders health and activity throughout the day .

Technology is making remote care accessible and equipping families with caregiving services, health monitoring, home security for your loved one’s.

Executive Summary:

-Assisted living centers are understaffed, seniors have reported abuse and neglect,

-Direct caregivers — children of elderly — are working and can’t stay at home to care for their parents

-Life Alert’s “Help i’ve fallen and I can’t get up” button brought elderly and emergency care to a forefront — yet lacks major features. There is major opportunity to expand and improve on existing solutions.

-Software for senior care is outdated — some processes haven’t changed in decades.

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The Senior Care Market is at USD 800 Billion in 2022 and projected to $914.9 billion by 2025

According to the U.S Census, Seniors will outnumber children — by 2030, 1 in 5 Americans is projected to be 65 years old and over.

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Opportunities:

Target Customer: Caregivers for the elderly — their children.

-Telemedicine — Virtual caregiver or AI software to check in on elder’s physical or emotional health.

-Wearable devices — Devices to track vital signs, or movement

-Sensors around home — Bed sensors to track elder’s sleep patterns, kitchen sensors to track movement or falls.

-Video Monitoring — Allows caregiver to tracking movement of elder around the house.

-Medication Management — Reminders to take medication at allocated times.

-Better Community —Organized elderly (day) communities to foster belonging. Our sense of belonging in society is declining and loneliness is an epidemic in America.

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Challenges:

-Privacy — Navigating privacy concerns for video recording or data collection , adhering to HIPAA guidelines.

-Patient Stigma — being sensitive to making the elder’s home into a hospital setting or making the elder ‘feel’ like a patient.

-Understanding Senior Demographic — Younger seniors (65–70) are more accepting of technology vs Older seniors (85+) refuse to use technology (caregiver would have to be user)

-Affordability — Medicare or other insurance plans may not cover costs of new technologies — caregivers or seniors will have to pay.

-Usability — Developers need to keep in mind visual/mobility challenges when designing products catering to elderly customers, or understand relationship between caregiver and elder.

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Solutions in Market:

Telemedicine :

Dr On Demand — On demand, and scheduled visits to healthcare providers. (Aquired; Series D — $235M in Funding)

Wearables:

CarePredict — wearable sensor to track daily activity (Series A — $19.7M in Funding)

Apple Watch — Heart rate and blood oxygen tracking

Virtual Care Giver:

Honor — At home senior care (Series E — $625M in funding)

MavenCare — Hospital quality home care for seniors (Series A funding)

HomeHero — Non-medical home care (Venture —$ 23M in Funding)

Catalia Health — AI based healthcare companion (Seed —$ 3.8M in Funding)

Happy Talks — Caring for aging adults through regular phone check-ins (Private)

Papa — Papa is a platform that connects college students to senior citizens for companionship and assistance (Series D — $241M in Funding)

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Analysis

-Solutions need to be simple, and effective. The best solutions will fit existing workflows rather create new one.

-Complex high-tech products with many features will scare both the provider and elderly from adoption.

-There is massive opportunity for innovation in day-to-day health monitering.

-Multiple startups are tackling ongoing health-care, but none have addressed day-to-day tracking of well-being and reporting of an anomaly (time of wake-up, sleep, daily exercise etc.)

-Products that provide comfort for an adult care-giver while being non-invasive to the elderly are most ideal.

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Five Predictions by 2030:

-The elderly population is growing, and will prefer to live at home than in assisted living facilities.

-Technology will better assist caregivers in monitoring the physical and mental health of elders living at home.

-Day-to-day tracking will become more advanced and detect anomalies in sleep patterns, eating habits, medication, and exercise.

-Current health monitoring solutions will be applied elders lifestyle to provide comprehensive analysis (whoop band or oura ring for elders).

-At home monitoring will be a trillion dollar market opportunity; solutions that are simple, non-invasive yet effective can win.

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