Better Living Across Your Lifespan - Home Logistics - 3 of 5

here at the Aged lab we started a new program called home logistics imagine home that's simply as a place but as a platform of services services that keep the young connected middle-aged people having convenience and eventually providing care for older adults how the Internet of Things collide with the undemanding kaname to have logistical systems delivered to you so that your food is on-demand your laundry is done people come to fix the home even simply changing the light bulb oh can you imagine a home that proactively also cares for you that can tell whether your gate

has changed and therefore predicts the possibility of a fall that allows family members to check in to make sure you're okay without intruding on your dignity let alone your privacy a check-up a day now becomes possible the maintenance of the home is done remotely I want you to start to imagine a home that is not just smart but provides a platform for living at any age so we are working with on-demand companies logistics companies certainly IT to start to rethink whether it's a micro apartment unit whether it's a condominium or a home worldwide to transform

the home from simply a place into a platform for life tomorrow in part of home logistics but in provide of life tomorrow there will come a time when you will either be a caregiver or a care recipient so we are working to create the largest database and panel of caregivers worldwide we envision thousands of homes to be our new living laboratory to be able to understand those micro moments those tasks what technologies will make it possible not just to live longer but to live and care better because our mission is not just simply studying old

age here at MIT we want to translate ideas into the laboratory into innovations in the living room the idea here is to how to live better in all those longer years that we've gained over the last 100 so the home as platform or as we'd like to say here home logistics is about the convergence of at least three things the first which many of us here at MIT have been excited about for years is the home is getting smarter we now have sensors throughout the home that can monitor manage and motivate nearly every behavior that

you have but it's not just about the sensors it's about the new demands people either working at home more providing care or the real reality that around the world the fastest growing household out there particularly in developed economies are households of one think about this cities as great as Paris Brussels Oslo Munich have more families shall we say heard more households rather of one than they do of two three and four how do you support that individual living alone which by the way is most likely to look like an older woman over age 60 so

it's not just about the two sensors and the individual is the on-demand economy perhaps made for Millennials and young people that have things delivered and make it easy and fun and the like it is now creating a virtual assisted living to enable you to live longer in your own home in fact the new leader in senior housing may not be senior housing where the facility is providing care but the new senior housing may be a senior housing company that provides pipelines of services into the home you live in now to eventually maybe have you move

out when the time comes the fact that matter is around the world we find one thing but particularly strong in industrialized countries the number one place people choose to live in retirement is not necessarily a beach not a golf course and certainly not with their children but rather to age in place to live in the home where they made their marriage their mortgage and their memories home Logistics is about taking the convergence of that desire this intelligence of sensors and technologies and communications with the on-demand economy to make that home a place to live for

life so I want you to imagine the following we did a study here that showed that if you use the on-demand economy and smart technologies to have food delivered so whether it's any of the branded meal services that come to the home or even food in a kit and you used any of the on-demand car services that are out there you know life by app and life by tap to provide your transportation getting your laundry done by other on-demand services where frankly having your refrigerator send a note saying it needs food to be delivered to

the refrigerator all those services combined at least here in the Boston area as a thought experiment we found believe it or not it was cheaper to have those services brought to the home of an older adult and provide the transportation and getting out and all the things that go with life cheaper than it was to live in assisted living and it got even cheaper as the demands went up so the practicality of this is that many people in youth are living a virtual assisted living because of convenience and the cool factor these new technologies that

are going to detect how my health is changing before I get sick how my walk is changing before I fall and how I've run out of ice cream before I noticed it and get it refilled is something that is providing a change in our lives from our youth all the way to our older age you