Medicare and Medicaid loosened restrictions on reimbursement for remote patient monitoring, paving the way for more insurance providers to cover home-health technology.

‘Environments for Aging’ highlights several trends in senior living that home-tech integrators could exploit, like entertainment spaces for visiting families and ‘man caves’ for game day.

KNX home automation system with Google Assistant allows seniors and other residents to summon help by voice or automatically through IoT events; caregivers can respond remotely with realKNX system demonstrated at ISE 2018.

Mike Maniscalco of Ihiji, which makes remote monitoring systems for smart homes, uses home automation to help manage son's Type 1 diabetes. He sees big implications for IoT in disease management and health monitoring.

Virtual reality startup Rendever Health wants to help seniors re-visit old neighborhoods and see new places using Samsung Gear VR headsets.