The dynamics surrounding the rapid escalation and adoption of technology by our growing senior population is becoming increasingly convincing of one major factor: Seniors are depending on technology. They perceive it as a significant contributor to their quality of life, their ability to self-manage health care and their ability to age in place. Just as the baby boomer generation rewrote the social landscape in the 1960s and 1970s, they will once again rewrite the rules on how health care in the 21st century needs to work. It will be done with advances in technology for health assessment and engagement. Many observers are now realizing that seniors are actually good at and comfortable with using technology. After all, they as a generation invented it. One simply needs to look at the number of smartphones, Facebook pages, text messaging and in-home computers owned and used by seniors to find that, as a demographic, they do not shy away from technologies that improve their social lives, increase family and community engagement and help them manage their lives and the services they seek.
