MediaPost.com looks into signs from the 2012 CES that AARP is finally starting to listen to boomers. The Silvers Summit figures heavily in this new path CES and AARP are taking.

From the New York Times: Researchers look into what contributes to, and detracts from, mental fitness as we age.

Livemocha, an online language learning community, was awarded a Sterling Award in the Education and COntinued Learning category.

Senior Housing News discusses CareVerge, a site that delivers healthcare information.

TelCare, a wireless blood glucose meter, announces partnership with MagnaCare, a health plan management company.  TelCare was one of the Last Gadget’s semifinalists.

The LA Times reports on “exergaming” and the benefits it may hold for the senior population.

The issues facing the aging don’t change; the technology does. From learning communities like LiveMocha to audio aids from Clear Sounds, AARP’s article looks at the first annual Sterling Awards, dedicated to products and services that enhance the lives of aging adults.

iPhone Life Magazine blogged about a winner at the 2012 Silvers Summit, No Tie’s Auto Verbal Pro Talking Soundboard.

Louis Tennebaum is one of the foremost leaders in the Aging in Place movement – a combination of services, design, and products to help keep aging folks in their own homes as long and as gracefully as possible.  Tennenbaum summarized his ideas at the Silvers Summit, in a panel that looked at how good design [...]

A nice round-up of the upcoming Silver Summit at CES on BoomersInTheWild.com

Press releases for Silvers Summit panelist Nancy Shonka Padberg have appeared on News Channel 27 – WKOW, Madison, Wisconsin; Bizjournals.com; and FierceCIO.com.

Thursday, January 5, 2012 Carnegie Mellon professors and researchers will be among those discussing their research and products at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (Jan. 10-13), the world’s largest and most well-known technology tradeshow. CMU’s Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Foundry will feature five CMU start-ups and several other innovations and partner [...]

SOURCE  Navigate Boomer Media SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The 2012 Consumer Electronic Show’s Silvers Summit (http://silverssummit.com) takes place on January 10, 2012. Nancy Shonka Padberg, CEO Navigate Boomer Media, will be on a billion dollar industry panel discussing digital media, health and wealth of baby boomer women. The “Games Silvers Play” [...]

The Aging Technology Alliance’s (AgeTek) annual meeting will be held at CES in January. See your Silvers Summit program for details on the AgeTek passport, which you can use to enter a drawing for techy prizes. Worldbookandnews.com has the details.

Silvers Summit panelist Nancy Shonka Padberg blogs the stats on female gamers: they comprise the majority of online gamers (55%), most of them are over the age of 35, annnnnd, they apparently have more sex than non-gamers. Check out Nancy’s panel on online gaming January 10 at CES.

    New Research from VibrantNation.com and Silvers Summit Reveals Smartphones, Tablets and e-Readers among Boomer Women’s Technology Must Haves  LAS VEGAS and LOUISVILLE, KY, November 16, 2011 – Technology adoption among women age 50+ is accelerating, with smartphones, computer tablets, and e-readers topping the list of holiday must haves, according to “Boomer Women 50+ [...]

New York, New York, November 8, 2011 – Livio Radio today announced that it has been named an International CES Innovations 2012 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for the Bluetooth Internet Radio Car Kit. Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the [...]

PR-Canada.net, a leading Canadian press release clearinghouse, has published Silvers Summit’s 2012 Sterling Awards press release.

The Austin American-Statesman announces the Silvers Summit 1st Annual Sterling Awards at the 2012 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada this January.

Care2 announces the Silvers Summit 1st Annual Sterling Awards at the 2012 CES. Care2′s CEO Randy Paynter is among the expert judges at the awards.   First Annual Sterling Awards Call for Entries Now Open Winners of Best Products and Services for Americans Over  Age 50 will be announced atFourth Annual Silvers Summit at CES [...]

Automotive Industries talks with Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of CEA, about the future of mobile technology and the automotive industry.

The Silvers Summit 1st Annual Sterling Awards “call for entries” was announced on Sioux City, Iowa’s KCAU-TV website today. The deadline for submissions is October 21, and winners will be announced January 10, 2012, at the Silvers Summit conference at CES.

From Telecare Aware, October 22, 2011: Looking forward to the 2012 awards season, the SilversSummit at CES announced the first annual Sterling Awards. Technologies and products targeted to ‘boomers and beyond’ can qualify in several categories, including remote health monitoring, social connectivity, home safety, general health and wellness, mobile apps and education. This deadline is 21 [...]

Being demoed at CES this week is the Emwave 2 personal stress reliever from HeartMath. This portable device lets you monitor your stress levels and help you calm down. Specifically, it monitors your heart rhythms as an indicator of how stressed you may be. To use the device, you connect it to your PC and [...]

No less a tech guru than the WSJ’s own Walt Mossberg has challenged the tech world to come up with devices that make it easier for consumers to track and manage their health. Now a new survey looks at what health-management technologies caregivers are most interested in. The survey, released over the weekend by the [...]

ore than two-thirds of family caregivers who have used some form of technology to help them with caregiving say that web-based and mobile technologies designed to facilitate caregiving would be helpful to them, according to a new survey from the National Alliance for Caregiving and UnitedHealthcare. All of the caregivers who participated in the survey [...]

The Health Technologies, Caregivers find most appealing The family caregivers usually come up with different health IT tools like mobile health devices and personal health records that make it easier for consumers to track and manage their health. But a recent survey, by the National Alliance for Caregiving and United Healthcare at the Consumer Electronics [...]

The consumer electronics trap is set and Baby Boomers are squarely in the crosshairs once you get past the 3-D televisions and tablets. That was my impression after seeing many of the consumer technologies showcased by vendors during the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show this past week in Las Vegas. Besides the broader focus of CES [...]

The big Aging in Place news in 2010 was the release of Aging in Place 2.0 Rethinking Solutions to the Home Care Challenge. MetLife Mature Marketing Institute published the report I wrote to provide us all a starting point for creating the future. That work will continue this year with the founding of the Aging [...]

At most (good) conferences, if they’re any good, there are moments the travel and expense required to be there all seem worth it. Within the crazy crowd of 140,000 people (at least it felt like that many people) at this year’s CES Show there was a quieter (but still crowded) conference focused on Boomers and [...]

A new survey reveals that the technology advances that have transformed how Americans work, play and interact have potential to alleviate the growing financial and emotional burdens on family caregivers. The e-Connected Family Caregiver: Bringing Caregiving into the 21st Century study, released January 8, 2011 by the National Alliance for Caregiving and UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth [...]

No less a tech guru than the WSJ’s own Walt Mossberg has challenged the tech world to come up with devices that make it easier for consumers to track and manage their health. Now a new survey looks at what health-management technologies caregivers are most interested in. The survey, released over the weekend by the [...]

Family caregivers who use technology to assist them in caring for their family members or close friends are confident that emerging technologies, like mobile health devices and personal health records, will bring significant benefits to both them and their care recipients. The “e-Connected Family Caregiver: Bringing Caregiving into the 21st Century” study, which was released [...]

We at Senior Care Corner were excited to be a part of the Silvers Summit at the Consumer Electronics Show.  The Silvers Summit section is an arm of this international technology conference that focuses on the technology advances specific to our seniors. We had the pleasure to learn about the latest information from experts in [...]

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new survey reveals that the technology advances that have transformed how Americans work, play and interact have potential to alleviate the growing financial and emotional burdens on family members caring for sick or disabled loved ones. The e-Connected Family Caregiver: Bringing Caregiving into the 21st Century study, released today by the National [...]

Product designers would be smart to heed the advice offered in a recent New York Times blog posting regarding lagging technology adoption among the elderly.  The post cites simplicity of use and the need for devices to be “fun” to ensure stickiness.  Much is at stake as multiple recent studies point to improved adoption as [...]

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB) January 05, 2011 John Mills, Founder & CEO of eCareDiary.com, (www.eCareDiary.com) a website devoted to providing caregivers with Internet tools, information and support, will speak at the annual 2011 International CES technology show on Wednesday, January 5, 2011. He will be a panel speaker in the Silvers Summit-AgeTek Alliance workshop, the [...]

Meet and visit with Home Controls at the GrandCare Systems booth at CES, part of the Silvers Summit TechZone! There are about 78 million boomers in the US (450 million worldwide) born between 1946 and 1964 – and they’re  hitting their peak earning and spending. Whether they’re playing brain games for fun, monitoring their homes, [...]

For the first time, CES attendees will have the opportunity to experience Hamilton CapTel service at the TV Ears exhibit in the Silvers Summit AURORA, Neb., Jan. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas Convention Center Booth #2910. For the first time, Hamilton CapTel® will demonstrate the CapTel 800i® captioned telephone for more [...]

For those making the trip out to the Consumer Electronics Show later this week, make the time to spend Saturday with technology and aging professionals talking about various topics related to consumer technology products and aging at the 2011 Silvers Summit.  SHN will be presenting / moderating the panel at 2 pm on Saturday entitled [...]

Meet and visit with GrandCare Systems at CES, part of the Silvers Summit TechZone! There are about 78 million boomers in the US (450 million worldwide) born between 1946 and 1964 – and they’re  hitting their peak earning and spending. Whether they’re playing brain games for fun, monitoring their homes, visiting their grandkids via video [...]

While writing posts and tracking issues for Senior Care Corner, our original senior care site, we have realized that technology and what it can do will be of growing importance to seniors.  With baby boomers beginning to reach retirement age and most stating a preference for wanting to stay at home, technological advances will make [...]

The CES (Consumer Electronic Show) in Las Vegas is the technology-related trade show held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada. Not open to the public, the show typically hosts previews of products and new product announcements. Some view it as an annual pilgrimage to spot products before they take off. Products such as the VCR, [...]

No sooner do we begin the New Year, than we hit the ground running with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas later this week. As you create your agenda for that huge event, your must-attend ticket is the Silvers Summit. As the organizers rightly state, “the digital life of this generation changes the [...]