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. For the “N” page, there was no shortage of important themes to select. K is for Kirkland, Washington state. In the U.S.,

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Public Health Nursing Mental health Health Policy 279

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. What role (if any) does technology play in dealing with shortages?

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Nursing 139

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

No understatement, these are very difficult times for nursing homes. million residents of nursing homes were already very frail people, needing help with 3 or more ADLs. Meanwhile, a wave of nursing home ‘transparency’ directives emerges from CMS , the nursing home regulator. So many of the 1.5 Most important?

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Nursing 110

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Each interviewee was asked for thoughts in the context of the categories suggested by ChatGPT and any other categories that will improve the work processes for those in the care-related industries – home care, home healthcare, senior living care (including nursing homes), and hospital discharge processes to any of those.

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Nursing Medicare Remote care Interoperability 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2022

July offered time to think about gaps and staff shortages. Meanwhile, the labor shortage has impacted every aspect of senior care, requiring a rethink of financial health of the businesses and the role of technology. There is a labor shortage everywhere -- ditto in senior care.

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Nursing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Meanwhile providers in that same survey noted that staffing shortages prevented them from providing better access. Today 11,000 urgent care centers are in suburbs and cities across the US, staffed by nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants. Health risk identification moves away from institutions to the pharmacy and home.

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Telehealth Mental health Nursing Health Information 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

And there has been an 88% increase in the number of open Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) jobs. Shortage of workers will worsen in 2024. Also during 2023 , non-medical home care work (or personal care aide) contributed to the shortage in the senior care industry. And home care was fastest growing job.

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Nursing 75

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. On the other hand, Leading Age CEO was 'enraged' about shortages of PPE.

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Nursing Medicare 106

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Does the shortage of labor to serve the aging population make sensor technology essential in delivering care? Older adults who live alone do not want to be transferred to a nursing home after hospital discharge. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , digital health , fall prevention, fall detection. Is this optimism justified?

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Healthcare Data Security Nursing Digital Health 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 7, 2023

To build this chart, interviews were conducted that included senior execs from Philips, the VA, Visiting Nurse Services, home care associations, Home Instead, Volunteers of America, and several home care organizations. Care workers – it’s not a shortage – it’s a crisis. AI and the Future of Care Work.

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Leadership Nursing 53

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 13, 2023

This is a category, like scribes, that seems obvious when you think about the current healthcare labor shortage and a frail aging patient population. Will these changes make their way into senior living, nursing homes and home care? Consider the telehealth-enabled virtual patient sitter.

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Telehealth Nursing Medicare Telemedicine 80

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Perhaps more observation and fewer wearables will be available – for example, Kepler Night Nurse or KamiCare. All the care service businesses are struggling with a labor shortage. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , vehicle/transportation technology-services. Caregiving technology trends. Check it out !].

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Nursing 136

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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Nursing Telehealth 163

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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Nursing Healthcare IT Health IT 61

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The care worker shortage has spurring more uses of technology in nursing homes and long term care settings. Well of course -- that day will come, just as we no longer notice that we are using web browsers, search engines, category tags: AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , aging in place

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Nursing 48

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

That same 2018 article noted a serious worker turnover problem, up to 67% per year (then) as well as critical shortage of workers. And there is plenty of competition for low-wage workers, for senior living communities, nursing homes, as well as private duty aides. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care.

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Nursing Medicare 133

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. On the other hand, Leading Age CEO was 'enraged' about shortages of PPE.

Nursing 62

Nursing Medicare 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 13, 2023

To build this chart, interviews were conducted that included senior execs from Philips, the VA, Visiting Nurse Services, home care associations, Home Instead, Volunteers of America, and several home care organizations. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care , AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , AgeTech

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Nursing 130

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 18, 2019

It will take acknowledgement of the care worker shortage and how to address it. Only eight states have authorized families to install them in nursing homes. Yet a year or more later, two-thirds of Florida's nursing homes have not complied (yet). But IP cameras for assisted living, home care, or skilled nursing homes ?

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Nursing 98

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Doctors and nurses are burning out, especially in the ER. million will pass 65 in just 7 more years -- in conjunction with a shortage of workers able and willing to help them. Report is published -- read it here ] category tags: caregivers , healthcare , tech-enabled home care , home health care , senior living

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Medicare Nursing 58

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 report is published , the feedback positive, observations strike a chord. And they will use AI technology to manage and compare overall community performance.

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Nursing Medicare 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2020

The Washington State nursing home deaths and the virus presence in multiple nursing homes have an immediate result. Nursing home visits are now restricted nationwide – and it appears, despite lack of clarity, that also means assisted living – the combination spanning 2.5 million nationally. million nationally. What happens next?

Nursing 65

Nursing 65

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2020

The Washington State nursing home deaths and the virus presence in multiple nursing homes has an immediate result. Nursing home visits are now restricted nationwide – and it appears, despite lack of clarity, that also means assisted living – the combination spanning 2.5 Consider the directives aimed at senior living communities.

Nursing 53

Nursing 53

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

We have been incredulous, watching older adults die alone in a nursing home , and then dying in many nursing homes. Here are six blog posts from a May unlike any previous: Could technology improve nursing homes? Nursing homes – consternation, condemnation are words that rule the day. Go back to 2019, for just a moment.

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Health Technology Nursing Medicare Telehealth 78

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

And last, but not least, the worsening staffing shortage, noted for years throughout the older adult service industry, is now a full-blown crisis. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , Mobile PERS , IoT and home monitoring , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health. Otherwise the market has moved on – to remote monitoring.

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Health Technology Telehealth Nursing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2020

The Washington State nursing home deaths and the virus presence in multiple nursing homes has an immediate result. Nursing home visits are now restricted nationwide – and it appears, despite lack of clarity, that also means assisted living – the combination spanning 2.5 Consider the directives aimed at senior living communities.

Nursing 48

Nursing 48

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 11, 2023

Shelley, a nurse in rural Eagle County, Colorado, went to her car and called a telehealth company to arrange an appointment with a sexual assault nurse examiner, or SANE. The nurse examiners have extensive training in how to care for assault survivors and collect evidence for possible criminal prosecution.

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Telehealth eCare Nursing Mental health 52

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2019

Let's take a longer look into this virtual world as it relates to care of older adults and consider such offerings as: Virtual caregiver nurse. Last month a startup launched with $35 million of funding to create a virtual caregiver nurse , targeting the labor shortage in private duty care. Virtual dementia tour.

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Nursing Pain management 84

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 1, 2019

According to NCAL, seniros stay 22 months on average , before moving to skilled nursing. For many, that additional cost may drive families elsewhere, to nursing homes or back home. But the real problem will limit expansion of assisted living is a shortage of available workers -- for assisted living, skilled nursing and home care.

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Nursing Telehealth 86

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 11, 2023

Shelley, a nurse in rural Eagle County, Colorado, went to her car and called a telehealth company to arrange an appointment with a sexual assault nurse examiner, or SANE. The nurse examiners offering SANE services have extensive training in how to care for assault survivors and collect evidence for possible criminal prosecution.

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Telehealth Nursing eCare Mental health 52

Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

For the theme of the page, instead of focusing on the literal latex and medical glove shortage, I used images from vintage fashion papers when gloves were de rigueur for both women and men. ” A surprise element here is the Echo tag that came from a pair of gloves I recently purchased. Stay tuned, and stay well!

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Public Health Leadership Life Science Nursing 295

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Home care companies, senior living companies, skilled nursing facilities are all desperate for workers to address this increasingly overwhelming market. And the shortage of care workers is mirrored in other industries – signs are posted everywhere seeking workers in the midst of the ‘ great resignation.’

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Telehealth Nursing Medicare Patient Experience 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2020

The Washington State nursing home deaths and the virus presence in multiple nursing homes have an immediate result. Nursing home visits are now restricted nationwide – and it appears, despite lack of clarity, that also means assisted living – the combination spanning 2.5 Coronavirus and the impact on residents of senior living.

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Nursing Telehealth mHealth Medicare 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 18, 2019

It will take acknowledgement of the care worker shortage and how to address it. Only eight states have authorized families to install them in nursing homes. A year or more later, two-thirds of nursing homes have not complied (yet). But IP cameras for assisted living, home care, or skilled nursing homes ? No kidding.

Nursing 48

Nursing 48

GlobalMed

MAY 27, 2020

From specialist shortages to long wait times to transportation barriers, many people around the world don’t live near well-equipped hospitals that provide readily available access to care—leaving rural residents to either travel for care or go without the healthcare resources they need.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Nursing Remote care 90

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2022

category tags: Home Care , Family caregivers. Covid-19 fear caused families to pull many of the elderly out of senior living to live at home, avoiding the virus as much as possible. See newly updated 2022 Market Overview Technology for Aging and new report, Beyond DIY: The Future of Smart Homes and Older Adults ]. . Attachment Size.

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