2025 Popular TV Watching Tendencies and Top TV Technology for Patient Happiness
Do your TV technology choices align with your patient population today and address future demands?
As at home, medical facilities have traditional antenna TV, satellite or cable, streaming video services, video on demand and other options. Today, there are so many options for digital broadcasting!
But do you ever consider whether TV investments in your hospital or clinic align with the way people consume TV at home? Entertainment is an excellent distraction for performing patients being entertained in hospital or sitting for long duration appointments (dialysis/infusion) in a hospital.
Regardless of a patient’s age, they deserve to have the comforts of home available to them during their health care encounters. Entertainment, like healthcare, is for all ages.
That doesn’t mean we can assume all generations see TV the same way or want access to greater entertainment options. This is the reason there are numerous US based manufactures offering a range of healthcare TV choices, including senior TV, as well as smart TVs that comply with your patients want in entertainment.
Simple Senior TV
Watching television is a more popular pastime among older adults. TV reached 90% of all US adults, 18+ in Q1 2019, recent statistics show. But only 81% of millennials are watching TV at least once a week, compared to 92% of millennials’ older peers and 94% of adults aged 65 or older.
In fact, standard TV may be the only type of programming you are interested in providing, depending on your healthcare environment and your patients. It might be that your patient populations do not want or need access to more features, or perhaps your facility does not want to connect your TVs to the internet.
A facility that provides service to seniors might have only cable TV available because that is what patients ask for.
A few companies that offer arm mounted Healthcare-grade TVs at the bedside or chairside for the Senior TV options. These individual displays come in 16” and 19” display sizes which correspond to a 90” wall TV experience. They check off viewing and audio with ease.
Smart Patient TVs & Touchscreens
Adults 65 and older, while they represent a substantial consumer base with cable TV or an antenna session to share, should not be mistaken that the future of patient TV does also include streaming content across all age ranges.
Cable and network TV continue to rule, but streaming content should not be overlooked. Indeed, Americans streamed roughly 15 million years’ worth of content in 2021 (Nielsen, 2022). Indeed, a 2021 study (links to an external site) by Nielsen found that 26 percent of all time spent in television homes was spent watching streaming platforms.
For facilities servicing different age groups, Smart customizable TVs, whether internet enabled or not, with streaming options, will cover a large majority of your patients.
A few companies have existing large screen TV and Smart patient TV and Smart Touchscreen TV offerings, but these options can connect to the internet and to streaming services.
Patients can also access links to website content, traditional cable, streaming services, etc! There are improved entertainment apps integrate relaxation activities, games without Internet.
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