Wayne Caswell

Founder & Senior EditorModern Health Talk

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Live Births per Year (Millions)

Baby Bust(41 Million)

Baby Boom(76 Million)

Echo Boom(64 Million)

World Population more than doubled in 65 years.Average Lifespan up 30 years over last century. Futurists say, Living for 1,000 years is possible.

As 10,000 Boomers turn 65/day, 90,000 Doctor Shortfall.Unpaid Family Caretakers pick up slack. ($480 Billion/yr)

Governments, Cities & Homes aren’t ready.

$3 Trillion/year

But Who are the “Real” Seniors?What are their Housing Needs?

And What Technologies do they Use?

$3 Trillion/year

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National Housing Policy: Financing & Aging in Place

Cisneros & U.TX Book: “Independent for Life”

Lennar Homes’: Next-Gen Home

What about Skilled Nursing?

What if Single or Widowedwith No Kids

Senior Housing Observati ons

Zero-Step Entry for: • Rolling Suitcases, • Baby Strollers, • Dollies … and• Wheelchairs

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UNIVERSAL, not “Senior” Design

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The FUTURE of Health Care

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An iPad for All Ages

Easy Access ib le Connected Wireless

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IBM Mainframe computer, circa 1972(System/370 Model 158-3)

Apple smartphone, Christmas 2011(iPhone 4S)

COST: ~$3.5 million ($19M in 2011 dollars) COST: FREE with 2 year contractPERFORMANCE: 1 MIPS (million instructions per second)

PERFORMANCE: 5,000 MIPS (1 GHz dual-core, 2.5 MHz per core)

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Internet of Things

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SENSORS in Homes measure all sorts of things:

Remote Monitoring of Things

•Contact, •Temperature, •Light, •Motion, •Acceleration, •Smell (CO2, off-gassing), •Pressure (pulse, blood pressure), •Moisture

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SENSORS in Cars, Clothing & on Bodies also measure:

Phone as Health Gateway

•Contact, •Temperature, •Light, •Motion, •Acceleration, •Smell (CO2, off-gassing), •Pressure (pulse, blood pressure), •Moisture, •Chemicals

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Minimally Invasive, Continuous MonitoringMonitor Trends to Avoid Lows & Highs

Understand Context of Readings

Guardian Glucose Monitor

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Brain-Computer InterfaceIt’s now possible to Command a Robot or Fly a Helicopter

with your thoughts. And bulky sensors are no loner needed.

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WATSON

Now being applied to Health Care & Medical Research.Watson can parse & analyze 300 M books in 3 seconds.

Medical Knowledge Doubles every 5 Years.250x faster and 8x smaller.

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TeleHEALTH & TeleMEDICINEAt Home, at the Office,

on the Go, at a Kiosk

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SocialMedia

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Tablets

RisingCosts

WirelessBroadband

AgingBoomers

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