Tag: seniors

As the Medicare market has grown to more than 68 million Americans, understanding how older adults navigate both traditional and digital media is more important than ever. Our 2025 Media Preferences of Older Adults survey provides fresh insights into evolving media habits, comfort with digital environments and the enduring value of established channels. Take a look at the takeaways and marketing implications that stood out to us.

In the coming years, dramatic demographic shifts will deeply impact the senior living industry, affecting technology, services and housing options. As older adults seek to maintain their wellness, safety and comfort, the industry must adapt to their evolving needs. To capture older adults' feelings about senior living options, Media Logic's Consumer In Sight team conducted a survey focused on understanding respondents' current perceptions, preferences and attitudes toward various accommodation options.

Our second annual Outlook of Older Adults Survey delves into the perspectives, concerns and aspirations of older adults for the upcoming year. Our survey unveiled critical themes around the daily lives and long-term concerns of older adults to capture a comprehensive snapshot of this influential demographic's outlook on the coming months.

Staying on top of the latest shifts in older adults' media habits is vital for delivering engaging, effective Medicare marketing. After all, this group of more than 65 million eligible people is ever evolving amid national and global changes. To that end, we conducted our sixth annual consumer survey to get a sense of media consumption among Medicare-eligible individuals.

Groups are a budding opportunity for health plans, and some senior-focused organizations are already trying them out. After all, more than 55% of Americans aged 55+ are on Facebook, and more than 1.8 billion people are in Facebook groups. Want to see what this could look like for your brand? Here are four Facebook groups proving their ability to engage seniors.

As part of our ongoing series of healthcare consumer surveys, Media Logic's Consumer In Sight research team surveyed seniors about their sense of well-being, sources of concern and plans to meet their goals for the year ahead.

In 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began updating the customer-facing homepage and relevant linked pages on Medicare.gov. When we compared screenshots from 2021 to the same webpages in 2022, we noticed substantial improvements in clarity, stylization, ease of navigation and readability. Click through our slide deck to see the biggest changes from year to year.

In year four of our Senior Media Habits Study, we look at what types of media gained momentum, caused disruption and have become part of everyday life for seniors since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

A key piece of value-based care is primary care, which is especially important for the senior segment. We found several examples of what payers and providers are doing to innovate and improve primary care for seniors.

In year three of our Senior Media Habits Study, we take a look at the ways COVID-19 has affected the media consumption of seniors.