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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

In some parts of the world, such as Australia and Norway, “in-person at-home acute care has gained signification traction and has been offered in most hospitals for over 15 years,” the authors note. The proliferation of such wearable sensors and remote patient monitoring technologies helps set the technology stage for HaH.

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The care future for older adults needs housing and tech support

Aging in Place Technology Watch

But only 14% of Americans can afford long-term care in the home. And if they could afford it, only 4% of their homes are aging-ready. Nor are they telehealth-ready – where 36% of Americans do not have high-speed internet in the home. Or the tech-powering of home health and home care agencies (soon?) In what year?

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Aging in place -- moving costs money -- and so does staying home

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The optimistic older adults like their home -- and they tell survey firms that they're going to stay. Adults age 60+, many of whom own their homes outright, plan to stay in them as they age. Staying home and obtaining care costs more and more. Aging in place -- sounds good, but for many, it won't work.

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It's time for solutions -- not products -- for aging in place

Aging in Place Technology Watch

It makes sense to them – they like their homes, locations, their familiar neighborhoods, shops, their friends, and neighbors. And they are willing to spend on services to enable them to remain there – home security, food and supplies delivery, and transportation services if they choose to or must go places without driving.

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Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Remote patient monitoring The question of virtual care's post-pandemic staying power has been answered resoundingly: Telemedicine is here to stay. By Bill Siwicki | October 17, 2023 News Covenant Health advances hospital-at-home program Dr. John Busigin, Covenant Health's Advanced Care at Home medical director, said that 20-30% of.

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Insights from 2023 Market Overview Technology for Aging

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In-home healthcare services will persist and expand. Telehealth services will remain to replace or supplement in person visits likely throughout 2022, and Dispatch Health’s in-home urgent care is now available nationwide. Caregiver shortages boost in-home monitoring. Smart displays and interfaces will be ubiquitous.

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The cost of long-term care -- could technology help lower it?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

And for sure, the pandemic institutionalized the role of in-home telehealth, with CMS reimbursement presumed to become permanent , or at least regularly renewed. Note that Medicaid pays between 45-65% of nursing home costs in most states. What care delivery has seen an uptake in technology adoption?

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