CES 2024 Highlights Part 3 – Toilet Seat with Automated Sanitization, New Ways to Understand Habits and Extend Independent Living

Rethinking Aging Club Podcast

In this episode, join us to hear about innovations from the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) through the eyes of a startup accelerator leader, along with specific product offerings that support improved toileting practices and a transformed view of how habits can be utilized to extend independent living options and support caregivers.
This show (recorded on February 1, 2024) included the following guests in the order they presented:
Jeffrey Gray, Founder of AgeTech Atlanta - a vibrant group of startups representing the greater Atlanta, Georgia. B2B attendee and industry expert. Jeffrey mentioned being intrigued by Zoog, who was a guest on our Part 2 CES Highlights show. It’s a video format storytelling app that helps you communicate with your grandkids (or hopefully in the future, it could even be used for communicating with dementia and cognitively challenged care receivers). Jeffrey also gave kudos to Singfit and the Samsung Health House that was front-and-center in the pavilion organized by the AgeTech Collaborative from AARP, as well as Map Habit (also a guest on this episode).
Dan Walkowiak of Bemis Manufacturing - the leader in toilet seats nationally, operating for 120 years, and still family-owned. Bemis exhibited its innovative new new “Empower” product, the first toilet seat that automatically applies cleanser and barrier spray to the user at the touch of a button, increasing user dignity and independence, as well as reducing the risk of UTI, among other benefits. Exhibitor located near the AgeTech Collaborative from AARP Pavilion.
Matt Golden, CoFounder and CEO of MapHabit - a culmination of science and innovation that is transforming the way that older adults learn and retain information, and in so doing, helping care receivers in their daily lives to maintain independence for as long as possible. Map Habit does this by helping users to “map out” their daily routines and define which micro-steps can be associated with visual cues. This innovation is increasingly offered through Medicare group partners. Finalist in the AgeTech After Dark pitch competition.
All great innovations from caring companies!
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Hosted by: Debbie Howard, Linda Sherman, Steve Ewell, and Carol Chiang
About this Category
Our seven CES 2024 Highlights shows feature leaders from innovative agetech and/or accessibility companies who either exhibited and/or pitched at CES 2024 through the AgeTech Collaborative from AARP Pavilion, the AgeTech After Dark Pitch Competition (also from AARP), the Eureka Park Accessibility Award Winners group of five, or the CTA Foundation Pitch competition.
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Music: Solemnity written and performed by Richard Sherman