An Interview with Dr. Richard Caro Co-Founder of Tech-Enhanced Life
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome our guest, Dr. Richard Caro the co-founder of Tech-Enhanced Life.
Dr. Richard G. Caro is co-founder of Tech-enhanced Life, a Public Benefit corporation with the mission of improving the quality of life of the aging and their families. He is also CEO of TangibleFuture, Inc., an interventional management consultancy. Tech-enhanced Life is a Public Benefit corporation with the mission of improving the quality of life of the aging and their families.
Tech-enhanced Life: • creates insights for older adults and their families, published at www.techenhancerdlife.com; • provides advisory services for companies — who want to develop products and services that older adults actually want, and need; and • enables, and lead the Longevity Explorers: a unique sharing, evaluation, and ideation community— made up of older adults (in their 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s), and their friends, families, and caregivers.
Richard’s prior experience includes operational roles in high tech companies in Silicon Valley and Boston. He was CEO (founder) of Vital Insite, a venture-backed, medical device start-up, developing noninvasive monitoring products; Engineering Program Manager at Coherent, one of the world’s largest laser manufacturers; and CTO (employee #5) of Summit Technology, a pioneer in the laser refractive surgery (LASIK) business. Before entering industry, he was a member of the research staff at Stanford University. Richard has been responsible for development of a number of successful products; has 24 issued patents; and received a Ph.D in Physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is an active member of several Silicon Valley angel investor groups, with a particular focus on the intersection of healthcare, aging, and technology.
Connect with Richard and Tech-Enhanced Life: https://www.techenhancedlife.com/
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, |
| 0:05.9 | with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.0 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
| 0:13.2 | the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local. |
| 0:26.6 | Hello and welcome to All Home Care Matters. If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.6 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters, |
| 0:39.3 | something that hopefully matters to you. |
| 0:41.7 | Today, we are privileged to welcome a very special guest, Mr. Richard Cairo, the co-founder of Tech Enhanced Life. |
| 0:49.7 | Welcome, Richard. |
| 0:51.3 | Hi there. It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:53.3 | Pleasure to have you, sir. So Richard, |
| 0:55.9 | this is a topic of great interest to me, dealing with families that are trying to safely age |
| 1:01.8 | in place and families who have loved ones who rely on some type of assistive devices for their |
| 1:08.4 | everyday living. And you co-founded tech enhanced life. |
| 1:13.0 | Tell us what tech enhanced life is. |
| 1:16.5 | So we do several different things. |
| 1:18.1 | You know, we operate a website that's got all sorts of in-depth reviews and insights for |
| 1:23.5 | older adults and their families. |
| 1:25.8 | But we also enable a community of longevity explorers, which is a kind of a club. |
| 1:33.0 | It's people in their 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. |
| 1:36.3 | We even have a couple in their hundreds. |
| 1:39.2 | And they're people who are really interested in the intersection of aging and technology |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Enriched Life Home Care Services, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Enriched Life Home Care Services and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.