Why Clorox Talks about Hygiene at Home: Health, Wellbeing, and the Home as Health Hub
The COVID-19 pandemic was a watershed era for people re-assessing and re-imagining their homes as hubs for health, healthcare, and well-being (as well as learning, exercising, and baking sourdough bread). This graphic comes from my book, Health Citizenship: How a Virus Opened Hearts and Minds, written in the midst of the pandemic based on consumers’ newly adopted behaviors during the #workfromhome and #stayhome epoch. We experienced the digital transformation of people through life and home-based work and education, a growing sense of DIY for things we could do
Aging is Not a Decline, but an Awakening at CES 2026 – Learning from AARP About Consumers, Lifespan, and Technology
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
The Bathroom’s Role in the Home as Health Hub: Catching Up with Kohler Health’s CEO at CES 2026
A key Tech Trend to Watch at CES 2026 is consumers’ re-imagining and fitting out their homes as sites for bolstering health and well-being. I’ve been tracking this concept as far back as 2011 when I wrote this post from the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. A decade-and-a-half later, in déjà vu spirit, the concept is no longer theoretical or futures-thinking. Fast forward from 2011 to the COVID-19 pandemic, when everyone’s home spaces became re-purposed for health, for medical care, for well-being, for fitness and exercise, for cooking up nutritious food, for
One of the best aspects of my work is collaborating across the health/care ecosystem to address how health citizens can deal with health care costs and and care for families. I'm grateful to have collaborated with Fidelity on their research into this issue, which you can access at the link here.
I'm gratified to be named on this updated list of 16 women's voices who are shaping health care. The curator of the list, Dorlee Michaeli, asked the question: "If someone wanted a smarter healthcare LinkedIn feed tomorrow, who should they follow today?" Glad to be one of these voices.
I’m celebrating America’s 250th birthday both patriotically and professionally, honored that the NLM included my 2010 paper, “How Smartphones Are Changing Healthcare for Consumers and Patients” as one of 250 items curated for the digital archive of 250 Years of American Medicine.