Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The federal “Money Follows the Person” was introduced in 2005 to enable seniors to avoid them and receive Medicaid-paid services. Was it the misnamed Five Star rating system that got such a bad reputation that Yelp seemed better at helping families find care? Or was it the senior living industry that seized their business?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

AI use in care delivery and marketing is not new - it just seems that way. AI is more established in marketing , even in senior-related businesses. AI is more established in marketing , even in senior-related businesses. Botco’s chatbot technology has been deployed at Carlton Senior Living. Learn more at Botco.

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Remote care Nursing HIPAA 149

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 12, 2023

Sunrise Senior Living’s chatbot offers a list of choices -- ‘find care for myself’ or ‘browsing options for senior living’ -- all of which could lead to an answer that does not require a phone call or further searching. Brennity Senior Living, where a close relative once lived, is terse. They should answer the question.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2024

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. With the boom in scam innovation , government initiatives and new tech emerges regularly to stop or eliminate scamming of seniors.

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Medicare 140

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

New progress for dementia care. 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.

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HIPAA Nursing 118

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. CareMerge is in the Argentum, Senior Living Supplier catalog). Rendever Senior Living. CarePredict Pinpoint.

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Telehealth Digital Health EHR Nursing 156

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In-home healthcare services will persist and expand. The dream of reimbursement for remote care became a reality during the pandemic. 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.

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Remote care Digital Health Health Technology Telehealth 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Caregivers: In April, 2023, the White House issued “ The Executive Order on Increasing Access to High-Quality Care and Supporting Caregivers (EO) including more than 50 directives to nearly every cabinet-level agency to expand access to affordable, high-quality care, and provide support for care workers and family caregivers.”

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Nursing Medicare 127

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

The perfect storm has arrived to drive tech adoption in the home and care services. So many factors converge now that were highlighted during the pandemic – consider the need for telehealth services as an alternative to in-person visits. The inefficient business model of home care needs to end. And that's just today.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

What care delivery has seen an uptake in technology adoption? People imagined that post-Covid-19, technology would become much more compelling in all types of care delivery. What hasn’t changed much – tech deployment in senior care. Consider that the median costs of long-term care are higher than ever.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Perhaps it will be in a rural area, on a property with considerable land, but no nearby services. Home care agencies are contacted, transportation providers of rides to-from appointments surface, food is delivered, and other services are brought in. What could go wrong? Perhaps that retrofit is not affordable.

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Nursing 130

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As an aging population grows, the supporting labor force for aging services, both in communities and for in-home care, simply isn’t there, lured away by better pay across multiple sectors. It continues to be a struggle to fully enable the senior care service industries with high-speed internet capability.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The cost of senior living care at $54,000/year over any length of time is staggering, pushing move-in ages out to 84. The move to senior living is a move of desperation for many families, given that their loved one is likely to have dementia and needs more care. What it means – a tech opportunity. million 27.2 million 33.3

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Nursing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Look at the ten years or more between the first wave of useful sensor tech for seniors (2005 with GrandCare Systems ) until the newer collection of offerings. And not least, look at the shortage of workers in the care industries and the obvious but elusive pay raise that would match the market of possible workers. Read more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

The government agency seems to have given up on improving the quality or affordability of dementia care in senior living or nursing homes. But is that the best setting for dementia care? No surprise: Data underpins care quality in senior living and home care. Or they move loved ones to senior living.

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Nursing 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

HomeEXCEPT. “ HomeEXCEPT is hardware and software for active seniors, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and researchers. The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Livindi. “ Livindi keeps families connected with LivindiPad, a tablet for seniors. Verizon Care Smart Watch. Learn more. Learn m ore.

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Psychiatry Nursing Telemedicine Telehealth 173

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

But ‘aging in place’ is still a challenge and maybe a pipe dream for seniors in their late 70’s or 80’s. 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). That may work for the most well-to-do seniors.

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 150

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Harvard study describes a bleak care future. But only 14% of Americans can afford long-term care in the home. For low-income individuals, home and community based services may have a 3-year wait to obtain them. Or the tech-powering of home health and home care agencies (soon?) to supplement in-person care.

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Telehealth 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 24, 2023

The following domains will add AI (via voice or other interaction modes) to services, including: Health management of self-care, enabling conversational access. Long-term care communities use AI from firms like EarlySense for incident alerting or VirtuSense for prediction and fall avoidance.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Care workers – it’s not a shortage – it’s a crisis. People who need care workers will tell you – the media will tell you, and the industry will tell you. From the national home care associations , a report in March: “The workforce shortage in home-based care has reached crisis proportions.

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Telemedicine Leadership Mental health Medicare 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

Certainly that must be what senior living residents and older adults living at home do, not to mention the of-course sizable tech staff working in senior living and elder care. Some senior living companies during Covid saw the need to help residents with their devices. Enter the tech concierge. Thoughts welcome.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2024

The purpose of the document, however, is to aggregate and review trends from 2023 that shape 2024, technology changes that matter, and offer, by category, a sampling of products, services, and sites of relevance to the older adult market. What’s new in this version of the report? Most everything.

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Digital Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2020

Then in April, Verizon does it again, launches a PERS, this time a smart watch offering, called the Care Smart Watch for seniors. At $149, no monthly service fee, the watch is released without an associated call center or a guaranteed responder network. That statement has no connection to today's Care Smart Watch for seniors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Necessity will drive AI usage in care work across all five care types (healthcare, home health care, home care, senior living, and Skilled Nursing Facilities). The care continuum will become a data-driven reality for just-right care. The changes that are most likely within the next five years?

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Nursing Medicare 69

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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

But ‘aging in place’ is still a challenge and maybe a pipe dream for seniors in their late 70’s or 80’s. 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). That may work for the most well-to-do seniors.

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 125

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

This applies to caring for and treating the 2.5 million in senior living communities, including nursing homes. Some senior living providers have been ahead of the game for some time with telehealth, like Asbury Communities and Holiday Retirement -- offering services for residents at times when physicians cannot be on site.

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HIPAA Telehealth mHealth Medicare 145

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed. Tech services for remote monitoring of people and patients took off and stayed aloft.

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Medicare Telehealth Public Health 125

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

Other counties with serious caregiving labor shortages see the possibilities – and if anything the US senior care industry is late to the party. AI chatbots will be built into senior living concierge services. AI-powered digital companions and training tools are evolving.

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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. The vision for tech-enabled home care persists.

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Nursing 128

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

And in New York State, the rollout of AI companion robot ElliQ to 800 seniors reportedly resulted in a "95% reduction in loneliness. Below are a few examples of different types, with all information derived from the websites of the companies: Care Coach. " iamfine is a low-cost service to help with aging in place. CareAngel. "AI

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Nursing 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

Staffing issues continue to plague senior care organizations. And the shortage of care workers is mirrored in other industries – signs are posted everywhere seeking workers in the midst of the ‘ great resignation.’. How about the care-related industries? Fewer workers available invites technology augmentation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 2, 2020

Note the wave of announcements of 'free' tech services and sea changes. If your firm is in the remote care/caregiving space (health, telehealth, engagement), please comment or email and I will add to this list. Remote engagement technology is suddenly a must-have in senior living. But nursing homes, specifically?

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Remote care Telehealth mHealth Nursing 141

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Approximately half of the older adult population has a smart TV – a common platforms used to stream Internet services without an associated specialty box like Apple TV , Roku or Chromecast. Staff can automatically start video calls to provide an emergency response without depending upon the senior to answer." Learn more at Caavo.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

But they also exposed gaps of capability in senior-focused communities. Furthermore, banning families and visitors may have exposed the role that visiting families play in care. When the crisis has passed, what will the differences be in terms of tech in senior living? What will be different in that year? If so, please comment.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

In years past, getting older adults online was a lower priority for senior advocates, social service agencies or healthcare organizations. News organizations rarely discussed tech adoption among seniors. But ‘aging in place’ is still a challenge and maybe a pipe dream for seniors in their late 70’s or 80’s.

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Health Technology Nursing Digital Health 114

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 14, 2019

Only 10% of the senior population moves to senior living , and to preserve their savings, they do so at a later date. The remainder will remain longer in their own homes, ‘aging in place’ and utilizing services like home care and home health care.

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mHealth Telehealth Digital Health 111