Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Turnover is highest in the lowest-paid care positions – home care is at a high point at 77% as of 2022. Hospitals are closing, particularly in rural areas – boosting expectations about care delivery in the home. category tags: Home Care , home health care , senior living , AI and machine learning

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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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Telehealth 62

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Patients experience the effects of this impact through a reduction in available services, an increase in appointment wait times, and lengthy visits at the emergency department. For those requiring in-person visits, reduce the burden of visit check-ins and consents through patient-centric electronic capabilities.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 12, 2023

Carlton Senior Living’s chatbot named Ana offers a similar list of search options, including scheduling a visit. After entering the first screening question on one national home health site , one would think that would get to ‘chat live’ but there were more screening questions. They should answer the question.

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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. And some envision a transformation of the physical spaces for care, including new designs of patient rooms that include large screens for telehealth visits.

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 2, 2020

And our family doctor’s staff initiated an offer of a Facetime (or Skype or Hangouts or other choice) for a follow-up visit instead of going into the office. Note the other ‘temporary’ change of reimbursement for remote (even telephone) visits , now fitting into the concept of telehealth. But nursing homes, specifically?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. The future will see chronic disease being managed more from homes and physicians' offices than in a hospital setting.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. Home care vs. assisted living – the demand is for home care. Hospitals continue to close , especially in rural areas. Acute care delivery at home for Medicare recipients has been endorsed by the American Hospital Association – and bills supporting it may pass.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

" As health systems adjusted to dramatic increases in virtual visits, they experienced a steep learning curve in a very short time. Many of us have gotten used to the idea that telehealth is just a new way to meet the doctor, only now it is through a video visit. Some of this shift to virtual care will be permanent.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

A striking shift from care in faci lities and hospitals to care in the home. . In-home care, home health care , remote patient monitoring (RPM) , fall detection , and other services that help older adults age in their homes are critical. Shortage of caregivers, prolonged isolation, and aging all boost in-home monitoring.

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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. 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

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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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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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. It’s care circle could be modeled after the original OneClick.chat – video chat for solo agers to converse with others while dining alone at home. Up ahead -- CES 2023. Check it out !].

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Nursing 136

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Here are five companies drawn from the report and beyond – all material is from the company websites: eCaring. “ Modernizing home care -- Behind eCaring is a team that cares a lot about caregiving. Now, we’re bringing transformative technology to one of the most needed, fastest-growing markets — home care." Learn more at eCaring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

But it eventually stuck as remaining in your home through thick and thin. One study confirm (again) that adults aged 55+ prefer to age in their own homes – even as a Mather study notes that they might be happier and healthier in a senior living community. Should the decision really be about considering the cost of home modification?

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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 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.

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

million in senior living communities, including nursing homes. Telehealth visits will be reimbursed the same amount as an in-person visit.” must be there in person to help facilitate a telehealth interaction (as suggested by Seema Verma), but you’re not allowed to visit. . and here’s home care. So someone (you?)

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Examples include using Teams for virtual care visits, Teams integration with Cerner electronic health record, and additional enhancements on the Azure Health Data Services using AI. Hospital at home programs are pretty popular in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Region Tag: Global Edition. Healthcare at your doorstep.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

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 service is now available nationwide. Here are just four of the trends identified in the 2022 Market Overview, Technology for Aging. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

aka hospital-at-home. I've seen inroads to patients' homes made with partnerships with broadband carriers or cable TV operators. Delivery of care at home necessitates the clinician to go and visit the patient's house. Region Tag: Global Edition. Virtual Care 3.0, Map route optimization.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Little did they know that a pandemic was coming, that visiting with aging family would become a nightmare – with people unable to see their relatives for many months. 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.

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Nursing 119

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 7, 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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Sensor-based home monitoring was a 2007-ish innovation. The home visit – no tech result, interesting motive. Do these visits result in recommendations for telehealth? category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring , Technology - AARP. With persuasion? Just saying.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring? Both types of monitoring are increasingly likely to be found by home care professionals entering a new care recipient’s home. But home care agencies can offer private pay RPM services. Passive activity monitoring assists with safety and wellbeing.

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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. The CDC reported in the aptly-named Morbidity and Mortality Report on this long-term care facility in late March, detailing cases among 81 residents, 34 staff members, and 14 visits. In the U.S.,

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

And Nielsen observed that the pandemic was a catalyst for the rise of tech use for working at home and shopping, among other uses. In addition, telehealth usage has skyrocketed, with virtual doctor visits expected by Forrester Research to top 1 billion by years end. Next generation: What are the dimensions of remote care technology?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Among the 30 interviewees across 28 organizations, including Microsoft, AARP, Best Buy Health, Home Instead, and the Consumer Technology Association, here are a few of the themes that emerged from these conversations: Connection matters – tech connectivity is a pre-requisite. The home – not the hospital -- becomes the care delivery hub.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

First, they needed to make care more accessible for patients, so they needed a service that implemented telehealth into the home, school or workplace, they determined. “They proposed creating a virtual patient-centered medical home – what we call the Virtual PCMH, or V-PCMH – for the patient/family and their healthcare team.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

It's putting more emphasis on the need for home healthcare and home care , especially in times in which the care workers hesitate to enter a home and which families are locked down and not visiting. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Family caregivers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

"MedSign’s flagship product Qortex is the first TV-based telehealth platform that virtually connects hospitals, medical professionals, home care agencies and pharmaceutical companies with their patients 24/7, enabling real-time video, voice, and vital sign monitoring all in the comfort and safety of home. Learn more at Saltbox TV.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Life has been worsening for older adults – in senior living and at home. Residents in senior living communities are having a tough time , cut off from activities and visits from family. What’s up with investing in home care and technology? Home Care Assistance received $100 million in 2016. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Life has been worsening for older adults – in senior living and at home. Residents in senior living communities are having a tough time , cut off from activities and visits from family. category tags: social isolation , computers, internet and social networking.

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Mental health 131