Silver Planet™ Help Your Parents Age in Place.

by Laurie Orlov

This product introduction is a great example of the risk in announcing an offering to the dementia technology space more than two years before shipping a product. Can you imagine how many phone calls were made to Foot.com (the originally-announced retailer), to Aetrex, to GTX, to Andrew Carle, for that matter, since the announcement?

Currently 14 million workers are employed in the U.S. medical sector, which continues to outpace other industries in job growth. According to a July labor brief by the Altarum Institute, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based health data analysis firm, total private sector health care employment grew by 287,000 jobs, or 2.1%, in the past 12 months. By comparison, total non-health payroll employment increased by about 750,000 jobs, or 0.6%, in the same period.

Q: You make it sound complicated to establish values of my heirlooms. Why can't I just look at the Internet and find the value myself? Surely there’s plenty of stuff for sale on Ebay that I can find a similar item and see what they are asking for that item.

A: The arrival of the 21st century has enabled us to find 90% of what we are searching for on the Internet. What a great tool - but with greatness also comes weakness. What a double-edged sword. If used correctly, you can find the answers.