We make custom AI voice and video agents for marketing, social media, video FAQs, communication, business training—fast, scalable, and tailored to your needs. An artist and a restauranteur, she didn’t want her home to feel like a hospital ward. But that was nearly impossible with the kinds of in-home healthcare equipment available. I created Modern Aging to help the elderly and infirm maintain a m
ore home-like atmosphere as they need to integrate healthcare equipment into their daily lives. In my travels around the world, I have discovered that we have choices in terms of our healthcare products. I’m talking about design and functionality. I’ve imported wheelchairs that don’t look clunky, that aren’t creaky, that don’t break your back when you lift them to put them in the back of the car. Walkers actually do come in colors other than drab gray, and they don’t have to weigh so much either. My mother relies on forty-plus pieces of equipment to help her move, eat, sleep, bathe, medicate and toilet herself. For so long my family and I assumed that the devices being pushed online or by insurance companies were all that was out there, even if they weren’t a good fit for Mom and sometimes even dangerous. So we jerry-rigged and made do. Friends from overseas were appalled by what we were using as we tried to make Mom’s life safer and maybe a little easier, and they suggested alternatives only available in their countries, with a particular emphasis on goods available in Japan, where the elderly are venerated, and caring for them is a source of pride for the caretaker. I want to share with you the products I have found in countries where elders and their families do all they can to see that parents and infirm loved ones live in their homes, their sanctuaries, until the end of their lives.
