Aging is Not a Decline, but an Awakening at CES 2026 – Learning from AARP About Consumers, Lifespan, and Technology
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 8 January 2026 in Accessibility, Aging, Aging and Technology, AI and health, Art and health, Baby Boomers and Health, Banks and health, Bathroom and health, Beauty and health, Bedroom and health, Boomers, Business and health, Cardiovascular health, Caregivers, Chronic care, Chronic disease, Connected health, Consumer electronics, Consumer experience, Consumer-directed health, Demographics and health, Design and health, Diagnostics, Diet and health, Digital health, DTC health, Education and health, Exercise, Family, Fashion and health, Financial health, Fitness, Food and health, Food as medicine, Grocery stores, Happiness, Health and Beauty, Health at home, Health care industry, Health care real estate, Health Consumers, Health ecosystem, Health privacy, Heart health, Home care, Home economics, Home health, Hospital to home, Housing and health, Life expectancy, Loneliness, longevity, Love and health, Medical innovation, Medicare, Medication adherence, Mental health, Money and health, Music and health, Nutrition, Patient experience, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Popular culture and health, Privacy and security, Quality of Life, Remote health monitoring, Retail health, Retirement and health, Robots, Robots and health, Self-care, Seniors and health, Sensors and health, Shopping and health, Sleep, Smart homes, Smartphone apps, Smartphones, Smartwatches, Social health, Social isolation, Social security, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Trust, User experience UX, Virtual health, Voice technology, Wearable tech, Wearables, Wellbeing, Wellness, Women and health
Aging and longevity are key themes driving technology innovations and markets, and walking the miles of aisles of CES 2026 demonstrates the expanding landscape of the role of tech in healthy living across the lifespan. I spent time at the AARP AgeTech Collaborative space this week as I did last year (here was my write-up of AARP and CES 2025 for historical context). In experiencing this year’s portfolio of AgeTech collab partners, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies in the mix, was informative, inspiring, and even energizing as someone who has been a member of AARP since turning 50 some
Tech Trends to Watch at CES 2026 – For Health, It’s About Longer Living, Smarter Living, and Better Living
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 5 January 2026 in Accessibility, Aging, Aging and Technology, AI, AI and health, Artificial intelligence, Augmented intelligence, Autonomous cars, Autos and health, Beauty and health, Bedroom and health, Behavioral health, Big Tech, Bioethics, Burnout, Business and health, Climate change, Cloud computing and health, Connected health, Consumer electronics, Cybersecurity, Data analytics and health, Depression, Design and health, Diabetes, Diet and health, Digital health, Digital transformation, Doctors, DTP health, Environment and heatlh, Exercise, Family, Fashion and health, Fitness, Food and health, Food as medicine, Food security, Future of health care, GenAI, Global Health, GLP-1s, Grocery stores, Health access, Health and Beauty, Health apps, Health at home, Health care industry, Health care real estate, Health Consumers, Health ecosystem, Health engagement, Health equity, Healthcare access, Healthcare DIY, Heart health, Heat and health, Home care, Home economics, Home health, Hospital to home, Housing and health, Hygiene and health, Large language models LLMs, Life expectancy, Loneliness, longevity, Machine learning, media and health, Medical device, medical home, Medical innovation, Medical technology, Medicines, Mental health, mHealth, Mobile apps, Mobile health, Moms and health, Money and health, Nutrition, Obesity, Oral care, Patient engagement, Patient experience, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacy, Physicians, Play and health, Popular culture and health, Prescription drugs, Prevention, Prevention and wellness, Primary care, Privacy and security, Quality of Life, Real estate and health, Remote health monitoring, Retail health, Retirement and health, Robots, Robots and health, Schools and health, Self-care, Seniors and health, Sensors and health, Shopping and health, Sleep, Smart cities, Smart homes, Smartphone apps, Smartphones, Smartwatches, Social health, Social media and health, Social networks and health, Social responsibility, Sports and health, Sustainability, Tariffs, Techquity, Telehealth, Trust, User experience UX, Virtual health, Voice technology, Wearable tech, Wearables, Weight loss, Wellbeing, Wellness, Women and health
Live from CES 2026 in Las Vegas…the first day of CES Media Days preceding the big show always covers a context-setting report on Tech Trends to Watch. This is one of my annual go-to programs which helps orient media and industry analysts with a lens on CES’s key tech categories and some hard data on market size and growth expectations. While I’ll focus on the health/care specifics in the trend forecast, let me first update you on the overall technology market revenues for the U.S. which are estimated at $565 billion for 2026.
I'm grateful to be part of the Duke Corporate Education faculty, sharing perspectives on the future of health care with health and life science companies. Once again, I'll be brainstorming the future of health care with a cohort of executives working in a global pharmaceutical company.I'm grateful to be part of the Duke Corporate Education faculty, sharing perspectives on the future of health care with health and life science companies. Once again, I'll be brainstorming the future of health care with a cohort of executives working in a global pharmaceutical company.