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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Yep. Too bad my dad refuses to wear an Apple Watch (he's got pulmonary hypertension).
What we're really looking forward to is glucose monitoring. I think there's ongoing research for that already. Mom wears an Apple Watch and has diabetes. Her blood sugar can often get too low which is dangerous so more frequent measurements and early warnings would be very helpful.
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Hopefully Apple will keep pushing the Watch towards a useful health monitoring tool. None of the other watch companies seem to be doing that. Garmin and Fitbit and others seem interested in mostly sport oriented tracking. To an older person in my 60s I don’t need to track steps, stairs, laps, or any of that nonsense. I do need to track pulse, O
2, sleep, BP, etc. Apple is still a ways off of having a really useful health monitoring watch as far as I’m concerned, but they are making progress. But at the present time it simply isn't worth the money. I don’t care about all the other features it has as I have my iPhone XR with me at all times and it is better at those tasks than a tiny screened watch could ever be.
ETA: Another poster mentioned Apple Watch bands. That is another sticking point to me. Most likely the bands would be way too small for my wrist. And as usual, Apple emphasizes form over function. Their band designs are not good for older people, especially those like me who have arthritis. I realize their are 3rd party vendors for bands, but they likely are no better. If Apple truly wants to create a health monitoring watch, they need to learn a lot about kinesiology. To heck with form, an older person needs the function and they need the designers to have a full understanding of kinesiology. And one more thing: Apple needs to convince the health insurance companies to view their Watch as a medical device so that they will help the patients pay for them.