Maui AgeWave

Intel designing a high tech future for aging in place.

According to Mark Miller at www.retirementrevised.com , Intel Corporation's Eric Dishman is spearheading a major initiative to develop "personal health technologies" at Intel.

Mark reports that "Dishman .. thinks that baby boomers-many of whom have had a life-long love affair with technology and gadgets-will demand sophisticated technologies as they age-and even sooner, as they help care for their own aging parents. “We’re going to have a very large group of retirees who are much more familiar with computers and cell phones. It’s going to be a much more tech-savvy population.”

"Dishman spearheads a major initiative to develop “personal health technologies” at Intel Corp., where he is general manager and global director of product research and innovation. He oversees Intel’s Digital Health Group, which is researching technology that could revolutionize personal technology for an aging global population-everything from capturing your vital signs at home to enabling an online chat with a medical professional.

The coming age wave threatens an explosion in medical costs at a time when health care delivery systems already are severely strained. “This isn’t just a business opportunity for Intel, but a cultural mandate,” Dishman says. “We need to figure out how to use personal health technologies to care for people.”

We'll be following Intel closely in the future.

Peter