This was our 11th CES 2025 Highlights show.

Brian Yang from Ceragem International explained their home health care platform, which includes massage bed and chair personalized wellness devices, available at Costco and through their 11 wellness centers, with plans to expand to 200. Ceragem won six product innovation awards at CES 2025.

Veronica Woodruff from Travelsist introduced a platform providing on-demand human assistance for travelers with disabilities, seniors, and families currently available in Atlanta and expanding to 12-15 airports.

Lewis Hornby from Jelly Drops presented his sugar-free, vitamin-boosted hydration treats for dementia patients, available through their website and select retailers. Lewis was recently recognised by Forbes 30 under 30 in the social impact category.

Recorded on April 24, 2025, this episode is part of our CES Highlights Series. Speakers are listed in their order of appearance.

Brian Changyoul Yang, CEO, Ceragem International

Veronica Woodruff, CEO and Founder, Travelsist
Travelsist is an AgeTech Atlanta company

Lewis Hornby, Co-Founder and CEO, Jelly Drops
Jelly Drops is an AgeTech Collaborative from AARP portfolio company

Debbie Howard’s summary of this show.

Press:
Ceragem
Press release with CES 2025 Innovation awards listed

Korea Times for Ceragem

Travelsist
Essence for Travelsist 10-13-24: From Flight Attendant To Founder: Meet The Woman Who Started A Company To Make Airport Travel More Accessible To Everyone by Rayna Reid Rayford

TechCrunch for Travelsist 12-8-23 by Anna Heim

Jelly Drops
Deutsche Welle broadcast news segment: Innovative treats help people living with dementia

Startups.co.uk: I wanted to help my Gran with dementia – now I’ve helped 60,000 others

BoomerTechTalk.com episode page with additional resources related to this show and our speakers.

LinkedIn Show Post that includes a carousel of speaker photos

Co-Hosts: Linda Sherman and Debbie Howard

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Music: Solemnity written and performed by Richard Sherman

This was our tenth CES 2025 highlights show. This time we focused on brain health with two great speakers.

Amir Bozorgzadeh introduced Enhanced VR, a cognitive training app that uses VR to improve attention and concentration, and Cogniclear VR, a cognitive screening tool. Enhanced VR has shown therapeutic benefits in ADHD, mild cognitive impairment, and emotional regulation.

Monique Andrews, Doctor Natural Medicine and Neuroscientist presented cōpe, a subscription-based app that integrates biometric data to provide personalized resilience training. cōpe offers live coaching calls and dynamic practices based on users' physiological data, aiming to boost resilience and combat loneliness.

Recorded on April 17, 2025, this episode is part of our CES Highlights Series. Speakers are listed in their order of appearance.

Amir Bozorgzadeh, CEO and Co-Founder, Virtuleap

Monique Andrews, CEO and Founder, cōpe

Debbie Howard’s summary of this show.

Resources:
Jim McMann of 1-800 Flowers interviews Monique

Functional Nutrition Podcast with Monique

Dr. Ed Osburn interviews Monique

Longevity Tech for Virtuleap

Venture Beat on Virtuleap Raise

Forbes on Virtuleap

BoomerTechTalk.com episode page

LinkedIn Show Post that includes a carousel of speaker photos

Co-Hosts: Linda Sherman and Debbie Howard

We continue to record new Rethinking Aging Club podcasts live on Thursdays. How to join live.

Please follow both of our podcasts including News for the Ages by Rethinking Aging Club.

We are catching up with publishing historical Rethinking Aging Club podcasts, and hope to be current by the end of May 2025.

New episodes on both of our podcasts are usually published the day after they are recorded.

Music: Solemnity written and performed by Richard Sherman

We honored World Parkinson’s Day (April 22, 2025) and Parkinson’s Awareness Month with this episode focused on Parkinson’s Advocacy and Speech Therapy. We also got an update on the Whispp app which provides AI Assistive Voice Technology but is not specifically intended for Parkinson's patients.

Follow PD Avengers on their social media links to learn the latest in what is going on in the world of Parkinson’s: X, IG, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook: @PDAvengers ; Linkedin.com/company/pd-avengers

The Speak Out!® Therapy Program, developed by Parkinson Voice Project
(PVP), helps people with Parkinson’s and related neurological disorders
regain and retain their speech and swallowing.

Recognized by Time Magazine and CES for their innovation, The Whispp app is a product to watch.We sincerely hope that Whispp will become part of the operating system of at least one smart phone manufacturer to bring another level of accessibility directly to users.

Recorded on April 10, 2025, this episode is part of our Parkinsons Series. Speakers are listed in their order of appearance.

Larry Gifford, President and Co-Founder, PD Avengers

Hilary Byatt, Chief Operating Officer, Parkinson Voice Project; Speech-Language Pathologist

Joris Castermans, Founder and CEO, Whispp - AI Assistive Voice Technology but not specific to Parkinson's
An AgeTech Collaborative from AARP portfolio company

Debbie Howard’s summary of this show.

RESOURCES:

April 26, 2025 Michael J Fox Parkinson’s Unity Walk in NYC

The Balancing Act - Effective Parkinson’s Speech Therapy 11-16-24 for Parkinson Voice Project

Healthy Debate Jan 2025 for PD Avengers by Indu Subramanian

Scripps for Whispp 2-13-25
Time Magazine for Whispp January 2025

Rethinking Aging Club Parkinson’s Podcasts 4-11-24 and 4-18-24

2-8-24 CES 2024 Highlights Rethinking Aging Club Podcast with Joris Castermans

BoomerTechTalk.com episode page

LinkedIn Show Post

Co-Hosts: Linda Sherman and Debbie Howard

We continue to record new Rethinking Aging Club podcasts live on Thursdays. How to join live.

Please follow both of our podcasts including News for the Ages by Rethinking Aging Club.

Music: Solemnity written and performed by Richard Sherman