Alexa foils theft from assisted living resident’s room, police say
An Amazon Alexa-enabled device helped foil an attempted theft from a resident’s room at a Florida assisted living community, according to police.
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New Gates-backed program will help startup tech companies focused on older adults, caregivers
A newly launched program backed by an investment and incubation company created by Melinda Gates has been launched to help startup technology companies focused on caregiving solutions to address the unmet needs of those providing or receiving elder care.
Senior living trends: Prepare for historic changes in 2020
Like never before, senior living and care organizations are facing a time of great uncertainty. These trends will have significant bearing within the senior living space.
Big senior living stories of 2019
Here’s a look at some of the news that occupied many minds in senior living over the past year.
4 tech trends involving older adults and senior living in 2020
With the growing older adult population and continued interest in technology, we’ll see several technology trends arise in 2020.
Caregiving robots should carry a warning label, author suggests
Many senior living operators see caregiving robots as a betterment tool for care and staffing. But will their integration fuel relationship concerns and moral hazards?
6 tips for optimizing your senior living website
If your goal is conversion, then website design must be a priority.
Interoperability: Preventing emergency communication breakdowns in your senior living community
Interoperability enables computer systems or software to exchange and make use of information, allowing senior living owners and operators to leverage their systems more effectively, improving both efficiency and safety.
Some seniors now can use Amazon Alexa for medication management tasks
Some senior living residents and other users of Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant are now able to review prescriptions and set medication reminders by using their pharmacy prescription information, as well as request prescription refills by voice command, using a new feature announced last week.
Hackers strike 2 data firms that serve senior living operators
Hackers recently targeted at least two vendors that provide data to the senior living sector.
The technology senior living communities actually need
From the perspective of a family caregiver of someone living with dementia, here are some senior living technologies that communities can use to improve their operations.
Touchtown releases activity management feature
Touchtown has released a new activity management feature of its Community Apps product designed to streamline event registration, the organization announced Wednesday,
Industry must evolve with needs, demands of growing older adult population
Things have changes, and senior living communities can’t continue to do things the way they have always done them.
Report: HHS opens inquiry into Ascension, Google partnership to ensure HIPAA compliance
The Department of Health and Human Services is opening an inquiry into a partnership between Ascension and Google to “seek to learn more information about this mass collection of individuals’ medical records to ensure that HIPAA protections were fully implemented,” the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Monitoring, documenting technologies popular among providers, LeadingAge and Ziegler find
Safety monitoring technologies and electronic documentation technologies are among the most widely adopted technologies at the largest not-for-profit multi-site senior living and care organizations surveyed for the 2019 LeadingAge Ziegler 200.
Retirement community resident among first to receive meds via drone
A retirement community resident recently became part of history as one of the first people in the United States to receive a medical prescription by drone under a program approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Telehealth use low, but user satisfaction impressive, J.D. Power says
Consumer use of telehealth remains low, but for those who have used it, satisfaction with the experience ranks among the highest of any consumer category studied by J.D. Power, the insights and data company said Monday in releasing the results of its first-ever U.S. Telehealth Satisfaction Study.
Independent, safe
How communities are balancing residents’ security and privacy needs.
2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards — All winners, Senior Living track
The complete list of winners in the Senior Living track of the 2019 McKnight’s Technology Awards.
The Moments embraces technology to win Gold as Innovator of the Year
Devotion to technological innovation helped The Moments, a 32-suite memory care community care in Lakeville, MN, win the top prize in the category of Innovator of the Year in the Senior Living track of the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
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