The mind fails before the body
Dementia turns a person into someone who must be managed.
4 solutions built for it
Power of attorney, Memory care, Dementia diagnosis and treatment and Guardianship and conservatorship.
Where Mortality meets Decline. Everyone dies, and unusually among animals, knows it in advance. That advance knowledge is what makes life insurance, wills, trusts, hospice, monuments, and religion possible. Mortality is also the only constant that produces businesses serving people who no longer exist, paid fo…
6 frictions
A fall can end independence in an afternoon
The leading cause of injury death in old age.
4 solutions built for it
Ageing-in-place home modifications, Medical alert devices, Walkers, stairlifts, and mobility aids and Physical therapy and fall-prevention.
Repeated hospital admissions, each one worse
The hospital is where the old go to get weaker.
3 solutions built for it
Nurse lines and pediatric telehealth, Geriatric care management and Hospital-at-home and remote monitoring.
Leave the family the story before it is lost
The last chance to tell the grandchildren who you were.
3 solutions built for it
Genealogy and DNA ancestry, Simplified video-calling devices for the old and Life-story and memoir services.
Someone must decide when you no longer can
Treatment, money, and residence will all be chosen by someone else.
3 solutions built for it
Power of attorney, Guardianship and conservatorship and Advance directives and living wills.
The last illness has begun
Treatment now buys time at the cost of comfort.
2 solutions built for it
Palliative care and Hospice.