Senior Care

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Donald Wickelgren

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Jul 13, 2022

Technology

Tech is advancing quickly, and keeping up with how to best use it for tech-limited seniors has not been a priority. Music and ear pod development have been amazing over the last 5 years. It's cheap and high quality, with tons of choices.

In the 1990s, we bought my father-in-law good hearing aids. They were costly, difficult, and time-consuming to adjust. Regulations have kept hearing aids in the same place I experienced 25 years ago. Maybe that will be changed.

Reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/health/hearing-aid-fda.html

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Donald Wickelgren

Don Wicklegren is Xilium's founder. He is a technologist by profession who started his career pre-internet in remote medical technology and learning. He has worked in both small and large corporations with world-wide remote staff and became a part of the team who developed the first commercial internet. As an entrepreneur, he started his first technology company in 2001. In Xilium, he focuses on innovating solutions for the US healthcare system.

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