Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Then there is the cost of 24x7 home care, same as assisted living (which is $67K in Massachusetts, for example) or even Genworth’s 44-hours of home care ($53-54K annual). So Mom or Dad stays at home as long as feasible and even beyond – and that’s why the home care industry today is booming.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

In the time of Covid-19, some are talking about an increasing use of technology in their nursing homes. Others are discussing the race to enable ‘televisits’ -- noting outreach from AARP to CMS to boost the requirement for enabling technology in nursing homes. The State of Florida gave tablets to 150 nursing homes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 27, 2022

We know that one of the biggest issues in senior living (and home care, nursing homes, home health care) today is a shortage of labor. This roll-up of statistics shows more than 400,000 employees lost between 2020 and 2022, with long-term care facilities (aka nursing homes) being the most impacted.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

That committing to aging independently at home is a permanent decision. Or that home care a parallel universe to senior living. Or that workers in each of those do not also find work in nursing homes. Reality check: Family caregivers may hire home care services. Or they move loved ones to senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In senior living or home care, permission to track this type of information is likely (hopefully) given at the onboarding of a new care recipient or resident. By mitigating some of these issues, older adults could remain home longer, supported by home care. Some worry the industry cannot recover.

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Nursing 135

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 16, 2022

Take a look at Exhibit One in the document which asserts that nearly 50 million people, aged 18-64, could become part of the care labor force, particularly those that have children and remain at home to care for them. Tech in the home – can it help, even a little? Shine more light on the larger problem.

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Nursing 139

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Then there is the cost of 24x7 home care, same as assisted living (which is $67K in Massachusetts, for example) or even Genworth’s 44-hours of home care ($53-54K annual). So Mom or Dad stays at home as long as feasible and even beyond – and that’s why the home care industry today is booming.

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 125

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Medicaid Home Care Services. The President’s Budget also includes $150 billion over the next decade to improve and expand Medicaid home care services —making it easier for seniors and people with disabilities to live, work, and participate in their communities. Older Americans Act Update 2023.

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Nursing Medicare 127

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The home care market is (still) a booming business. Home care of various types now augments and even enhances services that not long ago may have been provided by senior housing. Home care workers are also among the lowest paying and least trained occupations. And many already at home and in assisted living need the same care.

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Nursing 128

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

million live in nursing homes – where the most common condition is dementia. So that means that everyone else is still in their own home or living with a family member. Those that don’t make the move depend on families and home care, another increasingly scarce and expensive option. million 27.2 million 33.3 million 10.8

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Nursing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Perhaps it will be in a home that needs ‘ age-proofing’ a large house with stairs, no nearby relatives and no first-floor bedroom. They have high hopes about AgeTech -- how it will help them stay in their homes. category tags: aging in place , AgeTech , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection

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Nursing 130

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

No understatement, these are very difficult times for nursing homes. million residents of nursing homes were already very frail people, needing help with 3 or more ADLs. Meanwhile, a wave of nursing home ‘transparency’ directives emerges from CMS , the nursing home regulator. So many of the 1.5

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Nursing 110

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 5, 2020

Nursing homes – consternation, condemnation are words that rule the day. It must be tough to be focal points for nursing home policy these days. Even as a task force is being set up to focus on nursing homes, on the one hand, that seems positive. Go back to 2019, for just a moment. Pipe dream? Rant off. .

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Nursing Medicare 106

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

August, so warm, so replete with nursing home doomsayers and endless scam calls. Maybe you run a business out of your home and need to call clients. It's news -- 600 nursing homes closed so what’s the strategy to fix? For 14 years, Florida banned new nursing home construction. So why keep it?

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Nursing Medicare 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Home Health Care Services experienced an even larger increase – 50/5% -- during the same period.” For both assisted living and nursing homes, checking in on residents at night while they are sleeping may still be the standard of laborious practice. category tags: AgeTech , senior living.

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Nursing 144

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 13, 2023

An optimistic view of home care’s future as seen from 2012. Several times in the past decade, interviews were conducted with experts that lead to some reports about the home care industry. This chart came from a report, The Future of Home Care Technology 2012 that was sponsored by Microsoft, Verizon and LivHome, in 2012.

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Nursing 130

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

As integrated, ChatGPT, an AI-powered conversational platform, is used to enhance the caregiving experience for nurses and residents. Also, if you missed it, here is the 2023 Market Overview Technology for Aging category tags: AI and machine learning , Generative AI , healthcare , senior living integrates ChatGPT into its care app. "

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Remote care Nursing HIPAA 149

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2020

Some estimates indicate that 42% of all deaths from the virus could be traced to nursing homes. Among the biggest scandals were the deaths in New York City nursing homes from bringing Covid-19 patients into the buildings, quickly infecting the other residents, killing as many as 10,000 or more. Engagement matters.

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Nursing Telehealth 163

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

And in other news, CMS really wants older adults with dementia to remain in their homes. The government agency seems to have given up on improving the quality or affordability of dementia care in senior living or nursing homes. Never mind enabling caregivers to enter a robust job market away from their homes.

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Nursing 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The death rates from Covid-19 (or with Covid-19) of seniors in nursing homes and assisted living were horrific on the one hand and daunting to prospective move-ins. category tags: aging in place , Family caregivers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. By 2013, The U.S. But of these older adults, 6.5 Rant off. .

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Nursing 119

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

The news articles pile up – assisted living and nursing home staffing shortages ; stranding older adults without home health care ; keeping patients in hospitals longer because of lack of care; nursing home staffing crisis ; Medicaid paying family members to provide care , low wages and low unemployment worsen care situation , and on and on.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

The perfect storm has arrived to drive tech adoption in the home and care services. And the shortages in home care , home healthcare , skilled nursing facilities and senior living are juxtaposed with an overall labor shortage, just as the oldest baby boomer has turned 76 and has significant remaining life expectancy.

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Nursing Telehealth 124

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 31, 2022

And that the costs (estimated at $754 million in 2015) were mostly paid by Medicare and Medicaid (the latter likely in nursing homes.) So many factors contribute to the risk of falling, including lower body weakness, balance issues, medications, and home hazards.

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Nursing Medicare 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 2, 2020

But nursing homes, specifically? In 2018 and 2019, infrastructure topped the list of investments for surveyed organizations, particularly multi-site campuses that might include nursing homes. Home health care and home care – what are they doing? Comments to the contrary are welcome.

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Remote care Telehealth mHealth Nursing 141

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Whatever the approach, size, shape of the initiative – whether it's video-based telehealth, more device-intensive remote patient monitoring or rigorously structured acute care-at-home initiatives – all of these efforts have enormous promise, but not-insubstantial challenges. of remote patient monitoring patients comply with.

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Connected Health Telehealth Telemedicine Remote care 121

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As care delivery and consumer expectations change, the traditional fee-for-service model has already morphed into the new era of health-care consumerism – a patient-organized mix of self-care, urgent care, and in-home care, avoiding emergency rooms or long wait for a doctor visit.

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Telehealth Mental health Nursing Health Information 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Note that falls can be detected in a home without a wearable – via a wall-mounted device or through in-home Wi-Fi. Perhaps more observation and fewer wearables will be available – for example, Kepler Night Nurse or KamiCare. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , vehicle/transportation technology-services.

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Nursing 136

Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

In particular, the hottest spot appeared to be a nursing home where one resident had been diagnosed with COVID-19 on February 28. In those states, residents were compelled to stay home and avoid exposure to COVID-19 to “stop the spread.” N is for New York and Nurse. K is for Kirkland, Washington state.

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Public Health Nursing Mental health Health Policy 279

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

LeadingAge) "EchoCare, founded in 2015, has developed the Elderly Care Home Observer (ECHO) system, a unique sensing system for the care of the elderly during their stay at home. Remote Home Check. This solution offers an alternative to traditional nurse call systems. Learn more at Curadite. But are they struggling?

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Nursing 124

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The promoters of the standard, intended to make the vision of the smart home, with easily connected devices, a reality. Will that make it easier to use sensors, and therefore make it more appealing? Or that home care organizations could continue to turn down contracts due to lack of workers to fill them.

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Healthcare Data Security Nursing Digital Health 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. The company's platform connects the specialists to patient data and collaborates with the nursing staff to provide better care plans and also, enabling patients with the care option as per their needs." The last was offered by a giant US network. Learn m ore.

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Psychiatry Nursing Telemedicine Telehealth 173

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 11, 2023 News Houston Methodist nurses use software to boost completions of advance care plans Further, when using this nurse-facilitated technology in patients’ homes, the percentages of. million medication instructions without. By Bill Siwicki | May 18, 2023 News Augusta University Health saves $1.1M

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EHR EMR Telehealth Nursing 102

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The original 2016 definition from Susann Keohane and Nicola Palmarini at IBM stated: "A network of connected objects (devices, sensors) and cognitive systems with a clear mission: to actively care for people – their physical and mental well-being, homes, loved ones…and….when And not enough workers for US nursing homes.

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Nursing 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

What’s up with investing in home care and technology? Home Care Assistance received $100 million in 2016. In fact, 2013-2017 saw the rise, rise, and then fall of Home Hero – which raised $18 million, closing in 2017 and Hometeam’s $40 million in 2016. . In 2019, the private duty home care market was sized at 23.5

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Nursing Medicare 133

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 7, 2020

Hysterical publicity about nursing homes can surprise even the governor of New York. It turns out that most (66%) of hospitalizations with Covid-19 in New York were people who had been staying at home, the majority retired or unemployed and over age 51. Only 18% came from nursing homes.

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Nursing Public Health 158

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Home Care Magazine provided details about the just-announced Dementia Care policy changes, called the GUIDE Model , including care coordination services, support and payment to family caregivers to help keep care recipients out of nursing homes, and respite help. New progress for dementia care. Learn more at Toch Sleepsense.

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HIPAA Nursing 118

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And this updated information will ideally be available to other medical providers, not to mention senior and home health care companies that will soon see the discharged patient. Will these changes make their way into senior living, nursing homes and home care?

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Telehealth Nursing Medicare Telemedicine 80