The tech industry is slowly but surely appreciating the senior market. It is the fastest growing audience in consumer electronics according to The Aging Technology Alliance, AgeTek.

The population grew by 15 per cent over the last ten years. Estimates call for a 31 per cent increase over the next two decades. Ten thousand folks turn 65 every day.

Here are some of the items the CE will be marketing to us: home monitoring systems, medicine dispensers, one-button communications systems, emergency response devices, smartphones with simpler menus, home phones with larger buttons, captioning capabilities, tablet devices with built-in cognitive building apps, and TV-watching headsets for the hearing impaired.