Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

Goolsbee and Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, tag-teamed the U.S. You can see million-person differences for registered nurses, nursing assistants, and personal care aides, and half-million worker deltas for LPNs and medical assistants.

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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. It used to be that CNA (certified nursing assistant) pay at an average of $12.52/hour

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2018

No doubt you know someone who was baffled at how a terrible nursing home gets a 4 or 5 star rating from CMS’s Five Star Rating System , while a good one can appear to have a lower rating, applied from an inspection before management overhaul several years earlier. Let’s check that rating from CMS Nursing Home Compare – 4 star, you see.

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Nursing 79

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Consider the Genworth data (see Figure 1 ) showing that it cost $108,405 for a private room in a nursing home in 2021, $61,776 for home health aide services, and $54 ,00 0 in assisted living. Note that Medicaid pays between 45-65% of nursing home costs in most states.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Doctors and nurses are burning out, especially in the ER. As training of CNAs with CNAOnline , partnerships with skilled nursing facilities enable training coordinated by a nurse to be available 24x7, ‘blending professional instruction with technology and accessibility.’ You know the statistics and they are alarming.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, asking ChatGPT “ how is a nursing home paid for ”, the answer was detailed and accurate about the six ways to pay for the care (see below). The nursing home payment options answer from ChatGPT. Long-term care insurance: If you have long-term care insurance, it may cover some or all of the costs of a nursing home.

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Nursing Medicare 122

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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Consider the role of the LPN nurse -- calling 911 to bring residents to the ER for all but the simplest condition. Are nursing homes going to disappear? It’s one thing to read the appropriate coverage in the media about the horrendous mismanagement of Covid-19 patients in New York City nursing homes.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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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. N is for New York and Nurse. But it had to be New York, coupled with a nurse icon from a vintage set of child’s flash cards. K is for Kirkland, Washington state. In the U.S.,

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

million live in nursing homes – where the most common condition is dementia. million category tags: AgeTech , senior living , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , seniors and aging policy (See Figure 1 ). So where is everybody? So that means that everyone else is still in their own home or living with a family member.

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Nursing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The crisis of care staffing – there isn’t enough. Sixty-one percent of nursing homes have limited admissions due to staff shortages. Since January of 2020, 400,000 nursing home and assisted living workers have quit. Veterans and nursing home residents in wheelchairs need assistance in repositioning. .

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Nursing 135

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2022

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. Precede long hall check-in walks with remote monitoring and check-in.

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Nursing 144

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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Consider the role of the LPN nurse -- calling 911 to bring residents to the ER for all but the simplest condition. Are nursing homes going to disappear? It’s one thing to read the appropriate coverage in the media about the horrendous mismanagement of Covid-19 patients in New York City nursing homes.

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

August, so warm, so replete with nursing home doomsayers and endless scam calls. It's news -- 600 nursing homes closed so what’s the strategy to fix? So many factors crushed nursing homes -- Covid and Private Equity nursing home ownership were big players, followed by government strategy to undermine them.

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Nursing Medicare 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

Or that workers in each of those do not also find work in nursing homes. And depending on health, wealth or financial planning, many older adults will one day move to nursing homes, where the worker pool matches that in the other care services. Reality check: Family caregivers may hire home care services.

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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.) category tags: fall prevention, fall detection , AgeTech , baby boomers. Did you know that medical costs from falls was $50 billion in were projected to be $52 billion in 2020?

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Nursing Medicare 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Administration is also promoting the use of apprenticeship programs and partnering with employers, unions, and others to recruit, train, and keep long-term care workers on the job while also helping them advance their careers as registered and licensed nurses. Older Americans Act Update 2023.

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Nursing Medicare 127

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Louisville ownership has transformed both its members and sponsorship -- senior living, skilled nursing, healthcare, insurers. category tags: senior living , healthcare , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health Here are five exhibitors from the Aging 2.0 Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 16, 2022

The PHI analysis also looks at the demographics of aides who work in nursing homes, residential care (aka senior living) and home care – noting the biggest labor growth projection (and likely shortfall) in home care aides. category tags: Home Care , home health care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , tech-enabled home care.

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Nursing 139

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Frail patients, according to insiders, are increasingly being discharged from hospitals directly to home, bypassing rehab nursing homes. Unlike nursing homes, no standards-setting organizations specify minimum care requirements in the home. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care.

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Nursing 128

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. million reside in nursing homes and approximately 800,000 living in senior living communities (average resident age is 87 ). By 2013, The U.S. Rant off. .

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Nursing 119

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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And not enough workers for US nursing homes. category tags: Generative AI , AI and machine learning , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , AgeTech AI will not power the hands-on labor, but rather will free it up for more actual care.

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Nursing 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. category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health , senior living , social isolation , SNF.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

They are never seen in the same room at the same time, working as “Clark Kent and Superman” – tag-teaming with love, resilience, and faith. [To Stacy was fighting for home nursing services for Emmett. “I To get a sense of what that caregiving experience is like, check out her blog post, Confessions of an Exhausted Caregiver ].

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Life Science Leadership Pharmaceuticals Nursing 436

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This solution offers an alternative to traditional nurse call systems. Using a smart speaker configured with OrbitaAssist, the patient can say things like "tell the nurse I need a pillow," or "tell the nurse I've fallen." category tags: healthcare , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , home health care.

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Nursing 124

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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Nursing Telemedicine Telehealth 124

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The number of home care providers is exploding due to demand, much of it from people who should be in senior living or nursing homes but they (or their families) are too stubborn to make the move. category tags: aging in place , AgeTech , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection

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Nursing 130

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Leverage a centralized nursing model that will provide virtual coverage of multiple patients AI technology. Region Tag: Global Edition Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Healthcare's new equation = technology + operations Featured Decision Content: Mike Restuccia is the chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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EMR EHR Patient Experience Nursing 144

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 7, 2020

Hysterical publicity about nursing homes can surprise even the governor of New York. Only 18% came from nursing homes. Because the endless repetition of news about deaths in nursing homes can overshadow all other information. category tags: Aging , Seniors , social isolation , social media.

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Nursing Public Health 158

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. Or that workers in each do not work in nursing homes. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , fall prevention, fall detection , Mobile PERS Or they move loved ones to senior living.

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Nursing 62

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.

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EHR EMR Telehealth Nursing 101

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

We have seen the heartbreaking images of seniors in nursing homes peering through windows – the acceleration of efforts described here is important and valuable. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , senior living , Technology - AARP , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Will these changes make their way into senior living, nursing homes and home care? category tags: Conversational and generative AI , healthcare , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health For the wellbeing future of aging baby boomers and their families, there is no choice.

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