Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – Nursing shortage partially due to lack of teachers – “An estimated 116,000 registered nurse positions are unfilled at U.S. hospitals and nearly 100,000 jobs go vacant in nursing homes, experts said. The shortage is expected to worsen in coming years as the 78 [...]
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Mature Market Experts Gem Of The Day: Boomers and the Wii Fit
Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – Boomers and the Wii Fit – My wife and I just got a “Nintendo Wii for the kids.” According to the Wii’s virtual fitness trainers on the Wii Fit game, the first time I stepped on the Wii pad, I was 15 years [...]
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Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – Vitality Calculator – I’m fascinated by the “vitality calculators” popping up on all the mature market sites. From a marketing perspective, it makes absolute sense to try to engage your site visitors. People want to be reassured that they will live forever. That [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Mature Market Experts Stat of The Day: Electronic Tracking and Care Coordination Tools Save Lives
Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – Electronic Tracking and Care Coordination Tools Save Lives – As I have often posted before, I think technology is key to bridging the shortage of healthcare workers needed to care for the world’s booming senior population. Recent research is beginning to show the [...]
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Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – Scientists Discover What Makes Your Hair Go Gray – In a nation obsessed with staying young, hair products and hiding your gray is big business. In fact, the hair-care industry that will be worth about $42.5 billion worldwide by 2010, according to a [...]
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Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – Hearing Aids Get Stylish For Baby Boomers – This past October I lost most of my hearing in my right ear to a relatively rare condition called Sudden Sensory Neurological Hearing Loss, so I suddenly find myself in the market for a hearing [...]
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