This past Christmas, I helped my parents choose a water filter. The latest “smart” models all came with a smartphone app that ...

Many older adults use various types of digital health technology, but patient portals top the list, a new survey finds. Investigators used data from the internet and phone calls conducted in 2021 that ...

Some parts of western Washington are getting slushy snow. by Lee Stoll, KOMO News Reporter SEATTLE — A new survey shows a large number of older adults are putting travel on their "to-do" list. Many of ...

Artificial intelligence is a lively topic of conversation in schools and workplaces, which could lead you to believe that only younger people use it. However, older Americans are also using AI. This ...

Using digital devices seems to lower the risk of cognitive impairment in older adults by 58%, a new study shows. Findings of the study, which was published Monday in Nature Human Behavior, show ...

A new study paints a promising picture for the ways that digital technology use affects the aging brain. Neuroscientists at Baylor University and the University of Texas at Austin conducted a ...

Sandra Cota’s world had grown quiet. The busy pace of her life had slowed in recent years, replaced by long days in her Bronx apartment where the low drone of the television filled the silence between ...

Sompo Holdings, Inc., one of Japan's biggest insurance companies, says it's using artificial intelligence to help alleviate a critical shortage of workers needed to care for the country's aging ...

Screens are steadily taking over more and more of our life, leading some researchers to worry about the effect of long-term use on older adults’ brain. It has been suggested that this might lead to so ...

When an older adult disappears, the search often begins with a person and quickly expands into a map of signals, timestamps, and digital traces. That shift is changing how investigators look for ...