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Re: Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care

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Post by nunez »

pzo wrote: post #10
chillingeffect wrote: post #3

Yep. Spend an hour with an elderly person trying to do things like change a password, unsub from a mailing list, connect a Roku, look at a digital photo album, etc. Will blow your mind wide open. We basically need an entire tier of easy internet for the elderly.

Wouldn’t tech illiteracy eventually die out? Millenials are good with tech and gen z even better. It’s probably still a good niche for the next 20 years. On the other hand poor fitness and mental wellbeing seems affects all age groups.

Not at all! People are increasing _consuming_ tech, not _understanding_ it.

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Post by [deleted] »

donw wrote: post #47
cynicalsecurity wrote: post #35

There is no money in this business to make. Someone who didn't think of their old age in advance definitely hasn't got any money now. Sure, you can try to milk the government, but this is not really a sustainable business.

Retirement homes are basically in the business of funneling the life savings of elderly residents into their own coffers. For a fully mobile senior requiring no additional care, you're looking at a minimum of USD $3500/month at an assisted living facility. Add in any nursing needs, and that number will quickly go north of $5k/month. Once you start heading towards your late 80s, that number again quickly doubles. Note…

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Re: Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care

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Post by snapplebobapple »

The corrollary of this is you need to hustle now because there is maybe 15 years left before the majority of boomers cease to be customers due to dieing and the next generation is much smaller. You need to capture yoyr market share now then weather 20 years of less exciting before the millenials ramp up demand hard again

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Post by toomuchtodo »

defrost wrote: post #51
toomuchtodo wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.truelinkfinancial.com/ Found them here long ago (YC S13), used them with an alcoholic parent I was acting in a guardian capacity for. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=truelink

That appears to be a useful solution to part of the challenges in the domain. I'm not sure what countries that spans (I'm in Australia) so there's perhaps scope for others to expand across other geographic locations. There's also the "don't babysit me" aspect, a good number of elders are often slowly diminishing in capability and have no desire to be immediately shifted to a full guardianship when what they want is i…

I agree. I’m also looking for the equivalent of a social worker CRM/platform if anyone has any recommendations. I would prefer to not have to roll my own with a contractor if at all possible.

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Post by johngladtj »

dgellow wrote: post #43
insane_dreamer wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Europeans have no problem using them

Never seen a bidet in Europe. What country do you have in mind?

Up until a couple of years ago you were not legally allowed to build a house without at least one bathroom with a bidet, so essentially all houses built in the past 80 years in the country have bidets

Re: Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care

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Post by aio2 »

Not about your point to develop a new project, but is the population aging? I know in certain areas, yes, they are, but a quick look at one of those population pyramids shows places like the US, with a more even population age group, meaning the population as a whole isn't generally getting older.

Please enlighten me though, I know almost nothing of this field.

Re: Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care

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Post by octopoc »

binary132 wrote: post #60

The reality of elder care is that (especially) infirm old folks really need a lot of hard, difficult, unpleasant care that our economic system has made basically impossible for their children and extended families to perform, as would have probably been done in the past. This requirement isn’t going to go away. There will be no cheap, safe, efficient butt-wiping robot, and unmotivated, uninvolved third parties are go…

This is true for most cases. However in my family we have special circumstances: because my grandfather is a veteran, my father is paid to take care of him. It is an absolutely phenomenal experience for our family and has brought us all together. If we could enable this again for everyone that would be good for everyone in terms of mental health.

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

binary132 wrote: post #60

The reality of elder care is that (especially) infirm old folks really need a lot of hard, difficult, unpleasant care that our economic system has made basically impossible for their children and extended families to perform, as would have probably been done in the past. This requirement isn’t going to go away. There will be no cheap, safe, efficient butt-wiping robot, and unmotivated, uninvolved third parties are go…

> care that our economic system has made basically impossible for their children and extended families to perform

I don't wanna take care of my parents; I blame society.

I don't wanna have kids; I blame society.

We really can't keep letting society get away with all this.

Re: Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care

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Post by llamaimperative »

shrimp_emoji wrote: post #68
binary132 wrote: post #60

The reality of elder care is that (especially) infirm old folks really need a lot of hard, difficult, unpleasant care that our economic system has made basically impossible for their children and extended families to perform, as would have probably been done in the past. This requirement isn’t going to go away. There will be no cheap, safe, efficient butt-wiping robot, and unmotivated, uninvolved third parties are go…

> care that our economic system has made basically impossible for their children and extended families to perform I don't wanna take care of my parents; I blame society. I don't wanna have kids; I blame society. We really can't keep letting society get away with all this.

This is just a snarky way of saying “incentives drive behavior” which, of course, is actually true and when incentives yield bad outcomes we should interrogate the system that produces them.
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