Just in time for Toy Fair New York 2025, Ageless Innovation, a global healthcare company devoted to reimagining how we positively live and age together through the power of play, will debut YAHTZEE Slots, the fifth age-inclusive game created under license from leading games, IP and toy company, Hasbro.
There is a shortage of in-home care aids and nursing facilities also struggle to remain fully staffed.
Some researchers and advocates for aging people believe that eventually robots may be able to help with caretaking in both a social capacity and also through assistive tasks in the home and in long-term care facilities like assisted living.
Legislation promoting programs that combat loneliness in older adults has been reintroduced by the leader of the US Senate Special Committee on Aging.
Technology is often viewed as a contributor to our culture’s epidemic of loneliness and isolation, but one company is trying to prove the opposite. Ageless Innovation’s meowing “cats,” wagging “dogs,” and chirping “birds” have lifted the spirits of many seniors, with numerous state-sponsored programs funding the interactive, animatronic pets for veterans and those in hospice care. Three Washington, D.C. wards recently began distributing the Joy for All Companion Pets to residents 60 and older.
Loneliness, social isolation and living alone are significant risk factors for mortality, particularly in older adults, according to the results of a new study.
Researchers from Greece, Italy and Canada analyzed 86 previous studies to quantify the relationships between those social dynamics and mortality risk. Their findings were published in the journal Aging Clinical and Experimental Research.