13 Best Smart Home Devices to Help Aging in Place in 2025

Here is a review by the NYT’’s Wirecutter of smart home devices for the elderly. It includes security and communications devices. For an emergency contact system, it recommends the Apple Watch SE (2nd Generation. It detects falls, car crashes, and certain types of cardiac events, as well as send help automatically. Word on the street is that the Apple Watch provides the most accurate fall detection capabilities of wearable devices but even that is only at 50% accuracy.