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Hi, everyone, welcome to the A6 and C podcast.

Since many Americans and others have been or are at home with their families for the holidays,

they're realizing more than ever the realities of aging and caregiving for seniors.

In fact, the over 65-year-old population is doubling over just the next decade and a half or so, but don't

homogenize this age group of 65 and above either. So how does this all fit into our current

health care system? How does it fit into current retail experiences? What are the design

challenges, especially if you're optimizing for screenless interaction and data collection in a home?

And finally, where do providers and payers

come in? Joining us to have this conversation, we have two folks from Honor. Renato Valdez-Omos,

who is head of design there, and who previously founded an activity tracker that was one of Apple's

best of 2014. And we have Kelsey Mallard, who is head of health system integration at honor, among other things

she had previously founded and directed the post-acute care center for research in Washington, D.C.

First of all, I think that we're facing a really interesting moment in history, both the fact that

people are living longer, although some technologists would argue that we need to still stop

and halt aging altogether. We're also in an interesting

time where because of the mobility of people, they're not in the same systems. And if you could

kind of break down, like, what is the system? I mean, that we're in right now. How does it look?

The system today looks like this. There's about 10,000 people turning 65 every single day for

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