Wellness programming, which often focuses on more qualitative aspects of someone’s lifestyle, may seem like an odd match for artificial intelligence software.
But as wellness programs are seen as an increasingly vital way to maintain residents’ quality of life within senior living communities and nursing homes, AI may be able to provide valuable data on how to personalize lifestyle choices.
A new partnership aims to deploy AI within wellness programs to marry data insights from AI with individualized programs for older adults.
AI developer Deep Longevity has been teaming with a number of companies – most recently, Filipino wellness resort House of Gaia – with the goal of developing personalized care tools and programs.
Deep Longevity produces a number of AI-enabled products aimed at seniors and wellness, including its “Mind Age Clocks” software. Its goal is to provide a subjective sense of cognitive/emotional age, distinct from a person’s “real” age.
This is determined from a range of factors including blood, DNA, microbiome and psychological surveys, Deep Longevity’s website states. That information then can be tailored to individuals so they can make lifestyle improvements.
Social interaction and personalized care programs can help facilitate “mindful aging,” experts have noted recently in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News. The AI industry largely has aided in those efforts by providing new tools for communication — either between residents and staff or residents and the AI itself — to help combat loneliness.
A majority of long-term care spaces are prioritizing wellness among their residents and hope to have programs in place by 2025, one study found last year. Although Deep Longevity’s products are geared toward tracking data and generating reports, other AI tools could be used in place of a physical trainer, such as a virtual fitness coach, the New York Times recently reported.
