Source: AP/Charles Dharapak. This feels like a day to remember. In a surprising decision, the Supreme Court managed to steer between a rock and a hardplace, giving the greenlight to Obamacare. By calling it a tax they made the Dems happy that very little was struck down, and the Republicans happy (ish) that they have [...]
Robert Herzog, CEO of newcomer eCaring, demonstrates his new software platform to us at the Aging2.0 offices. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfY6XdH7KRw&w=420&h=315] The powerful thing about eCaring is that it’s a simple easy to use tool that is targeted at the professional caregiver. It does two important things. First, generates a new layer of data about what exactly [...]
Greg O’Neill and his team at the National Academy for an Aging Society partnered with the entertaining and convivial host Dr. Joseph Coughlin (from MIT’s Age Lab) to put on a good show at the recent Aging Means Business event in Boston on November 18. The event focused on the important topic of design for this demographic. [...]
I suspect that the primary emotion most commonly associated with the experiences of residents and caregivers in today’s senior care facilities is not, by a long stretch, Love. However, this is the idea behind the Green House Project, and an idea both simple and revolutionary that it has the potential to be a real game [...]
I spoke with a number of fascinating people at the excellent TedMed event in San Diego recently. One of these was Steve Gullans, who’s the business partner in Excel Venture Management of the always interesting Juan Enriquez and a former long-time Harvard professor who made the jump into the business world. Here’s a video of [...]
