The Bio Report

Ensuring Digital Health Technologies Benefit Older People


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AARP, the advocacy group serving people over the age of 50, is taking steps to ensure that digital health technologies best serve its membership. The organization has embarked on an initiative to test the design and functionality of digital health devices for older people and provide feedback to the marketplace. It’s enlisted partners United Healthcare and Pfizer as part of its effort. We spoke to Jeff Makowka, director of thought leadership for AARP, about its efforts, how it’s going about testing devices, and what it hopes to accomplish. We had some technical difficulties on this podcast that were not apparent during the interview. We’ve done our best to clean it up, but you will hear some static early in the recording. We apologize to our listeners and our guest, who we think you’ll find nonetheless interesting.
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