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No surprise: Data underpins care quality in senior living and home care

Aging in Place Technology Watch

billion to acquire Emeritus senior living, following a $23 million damage from a lawsuit – one of several related to poor (and unmonitored) care. category tags: senior living , Home Care , home health care , tech-enabled home care In senior living a decade ago, Brookdale was about to spend $2.8

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The user experience with Google: You are the product for better or worse

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An apology followed, along with many more lawsuits and fines, including some large ones in Europe. category tags: smartphones , privacy, security , seniors and aging policy , computers, broadband, and social networking Did anything change? Not really. We are back to the beginning.

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Disabilities and Accessibility in Health IT: The Need Is Constant – Part 1

Healthcare IT Today

Lawsuits to enforce these regulations have hit many companies. Many of the early DIY tools omitted the clues that disabled visitors depend on—for instance using raw markup to make a phrase look like a heading when they should use an HTML tag for headings. ” (page 32 of the PDF). The tools are doing better, though.

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Did you miss one? Aging and Health posts from (almost) February 2024

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An apology followed, along with many more lawsuits and fines, including some large ones in Europe. Read more. category tags: smartphones, cellphones , vehicle/transportation technology-services , AgeTech Did anything change? Not really.

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Big tech – from simple tools to cynicism and hapless users

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Google search ranking has generated some very-public battles, as with Yelp and led to numerous lawsuits -- including one about tracking you when you are searching in ‘private’ mode, another oxymoron. category tags: social media , computers, internet and social networking.

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Six Aging and Health Blog Posts from the Prolific Month of June 2022

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Results from a study identifying the problem are now published , and the first of possibly multiple lawsuits are being file for mishandling personal patient data. With this lawsuit, coupled with government attempts to crack down on big tech , is the tide is turning? See new report The State of Voice-AI and Older Adults 2022 ].

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Nursing home transparency needs more than Covid-19 case-counting

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In fact, the latest is an effort across multiple states to grant themselves immunity from Covid-19 civil lawsuits because of a 'shortage of PPE' – unlikely to have been stockpiled just-in-case prior to this wave of publicity. category tags: Seniors , SNF , senior living.

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