Some 117 million Americans are expected to need caregiving assistance by 2020, according to the recently released Caregiving Innovation Frontiers (CIF) study conducted by AARP and Parks Associates. Yet the number of caregivers is only expected to reach 50 million (45 million unpaid, 5 million paid).
From the article "The Caregiving Boom: Where The Job Opportunities Are" by Nancy Collamer.
A recent study by Parks Associates, a technology-based marketing and research company, finds that 44% of US broadband households own speakers, 37% own headphones bought separately from a phone or musi...
Parks Associates research indicates 40 percent of U.S. smartphone owners use voice-recognition software, generally eclipsing the use of phones for streaming music to speakers or video to a second scre...
Why are integrators important to Amazon? Quigley calls custom integrators “the new architects” of the smart home. He cites data from Parks Associates that even though 60 percent of consumers say th...
A recent survey from Parks Associates finds builders are starting to provide smart home-ready networking infrastructure in new developments as a standard offering. From the article, "Survey Find Ho...
