Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2022

From its American Community Survey (ACS) summary files and detailed tables , we know as of November, 2021, for example, the US population (315 million), the number of housing units (133 million) and whether they are owner-occupied. The medical community continues to want to understand the likelihood of an older adult using a wearable device.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Caremerge Voice helps improve the residents’ experience by enabling them to interact with Alexa for community-specific information the natural way they have always used it. Caremerge Voice provides a new level of instant access to community information and concierge services that senior living communities and residents are going to love.

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Clear Arch Health

JANUARY 10, 2024

We anticipate many good things from this collaboration with Desert Senita Community Health Center as we work together to expand access to quality patient care. The post Arizona-based FQHC, Desert Senita, Tags Clear Arch Health for RPM Services to Help Expand Rural Care Delivery appeared first on Clear Arch Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Long forgotten now, it was briefly in Wikipedia to define the benefit of a continuing care retirement community where you did not have to leave the community if you required higher levels of care. Or will they want to move to some sort of senior-living community, average age 84 , with activities and shared meals?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

The webinar, organised by the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community, was chaired by Mette Maria Skjoeth from Odense University Hospital, Denmark, featured registered nurse experts Ann Gregory, clinical nurse advisor to NHSX in the UK and Luis Encinas, emergency coordinator, Médecins Sans Frontières, Spain.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 12, 2023

Human Good jumps right into live chat about finding a community. But then it baffles, since its home page also offers a ‘Find a community’ option, and the screening questions (‘what state, what is most important’) were timewasters when the question asked of the chat operator was about availability in a specific location.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Such collaboration will need input from physicians and members of the clinical community, as well as information services and patients. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Telemedicine is a major driver in shifting the healthcare delivery model Featured Decision Content:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. Is your community prepared so you get the job done?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 27, 2022

In the for-profit area, senior living operators and REITs see disruption and opportunity in the growing number of (unregulated) 55+ communities and some have invested accordingly. category tags: senior living , homecare , SNF , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health. B ut is tech investment part of all senior care strategies?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

As a result, they may not be focused on enabling resident broadband in their communities. Voice services will support a resident as they age in the community. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , computers, broadband, and social networking , senior living. AI will be applied to improving wellbeing in old age.

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JUNE 10, 2020

But they also exposed gaps of capability in senior-focused communities. These issues will only be better understood as senior housing communities are surveyed, and it is possible to figure out what policy or business changes have made a difference. Ending the era of no-tech to at least some tech. If so, please comment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

billion to communities to help residents with training, digital literacy, and fighting the digital divide. NTIA worked with the Federal Communications Commission to stand up the $14.2 Communities are finding that telehealth increases broadband adoption as well as improves the physical and economic health of residents.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

According to the 2020 Senior Living, COVID-19 and Technology Survey and Report , over a third of communities reported having poor or nonexistent Wi-Fi and bandwidth capability." category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , SNF , wearables , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

Training an AI chatbot on the various services and schedules offered by a senior living community will be required. Partially to support external queries about the community, but also to serve those within, serving up answers about schedule and location, when is breakfast (not for 3 hours), and when is my son coming to pick me up?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Redlining, politics, and adverse economics leaves low-income communities stuck with outdated, broken infrastructure. Community broadband is often great for curing capacity barriers – networks owned by cities and counties, telephone and electrical co-ops, wireless ISP (WISPs), other local ISPs and public-private partnerships.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. Self-care and health/care at home and closer-to-home in our communities and trust local touch-points is a growing phenomenon in the U.S. and much of the world.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 24, 2023

Long-term care communities use AI from firms like EarlySense for incident alerting or VirtuSense for prediction and fall avoidance. category tags: AI and machine learning , chatbots , Conversational and generative AI Smart beds with sensors have been deployed in hospital systems. AI-enabled cameras to detect falls and other anomalies.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

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. category tags: caregivers , Family caregivers , Home Care , computers, broadband, and social networking

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

One of the biggest now has a tech concierge in their communities, though that doesn’t appear to be a common initiative across other large communities. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones. Then update it periodically, with more questions, better answers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2022

million households pulled from the 5-year census ( American Community Survey/ACS ) data? category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking. For all three, broadband access and smartphone ownership and use is growing. But what if tech adoption came from a sample size of 2.9 Attachment Size. 2020_ACS_5YR_Internet_Map.pdf 165.98

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 29, 2023

Perhaps the Medicare scam call reaches someone in a senior living community who is obviously Medicare-eligible. category tags: smartphones, cellphones , seniors and aging policy , Seniors Pick up, have a conversation, no matter with what or whom. Perhaps it doesn’t proceed to fraud, but it is fraudulent, nonetheless.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Today Intermountain is considered a benchmark for serving rural communities with telehealth. At Intermountain, a health system that serves a sizable rural population in Utah, telehealth programs were launched over a decade ago to extend specialty care in rural clinics.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For low-income individuals, home and community based services may have a 3-year wait to obtain them. category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living And if they could afford it, only 4% of their homes are aging-ready. Further, 42% of women aged 75+ live alone. In what year?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And other phone sellers – like Verizon and AT&T , for example, offer very little support in the store past initial device setup, with primary tech support via phone – or as with Sprint, via a moderated online community. Surveyed older adults struggle with technology they own in 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has also highlighted the need for the whole system to work together, from primary and secondary care, through to community provision and residential care. Region Tag: Europe/UK Custom Tags: COVID-19 coronavirus Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: COVID-19 and digital transformation Featured Decision Content:

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

When this blog was launched in 2008, the Wikipedia definition of aging in place was described as a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) -- the ability to move from independent living to assisted to skilled nursing. category tags: aging in place , Family caregivers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. By 2013, The U.S. Rant off. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 9, 2021

Now that’s possible, but no longer remarkable once a smart speaker is in the person’s unit and the community has decided to voice-enable itself. Furthermore, senior living communities also quickly adopted Zoom and VR during the pandemic to provide engagement beyond speech.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 19, 2023

Without a standard set of data about residents, including staff scheduling, care plans, and communication with families – it’s hard to know if a community or agency is profitable until it’s too late. category tags: senior living , Home Care , home health care , tech-enabled home care

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2020

And, the Covid-19 crisis is highlighting some advantages that small-home communities may enjoy, in being able to maintain a greater sense of normalcy in day-to-day activities.” announced today that it has provided telehealth access and services to the residents of Holiday’s 261 senior living communities. Holiday Retirement and MeMD.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Pre-Covid, you’ve seen residents of nursing homes share meals with other residents, receive care provided by long-time aides, benefit from visits from community volunteers, or attend religion services provided on Fridays or Sundays. category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , aging in place , seniors and aging policy

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Each day, we learn of hospitals across the country shutting their doors, which leaves those communities abandoned from the local healthcare services that they sorely need. Region Tag: Global Edition Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Healthcare's new equation = technology + operations Featured Decision Content:

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

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. This applies to caring for and treating the 2.5

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Only 2% of the 65+ (or 818,800) live in assisted living community – half of them with some degree of dementia. million category tags: AgeTech , senior living , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , seniors and aging policy Consider that the current census estimated population aged 65+ is 60.5 million, of which 33.2 million are men.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

Health IT and racial justice: Expanding access, ending disparities, empowering communities. News Epic-linked text messages enhance patient experience, improve outcomes at Community Health Network By changing a system architecture that had stopped patients' numbers from being filtered by. By HIMSS Media | December 01, 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Reduce community transmission with patient self-screening. Review communication distribution lists to ensure that they accurately reflect the internal, external, partner, and other groups that are critical to your response. Make sure they are prepared to manage and stay engaged with a teleworking workforce.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Because the technology, even Apple’s, is not intuitive, because the devices connect to the rest of the infrastructure in a community, support is required. category tags: Aging, ageism , AgeTech , smartphones , wearables, smartwatch , tablets. Could the device be easier to set up, start using, and be a comfortable new user experience?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The solution offers a new option for senior living communities to improve safety and care while protecting privacy and simplifying daily life for residents and staff. category tags: caregivers , Home Care , senior living , AgeTech

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