New senior living demands: Interactive, custom tech
Senior living properties have the chance to position themselves for greater success by providing their residents with an improved living experience.
Technology
Advanced at-home wearable technology is on the way
Innovative at-home wearable technology could be on the market in a few years.
Music video app uses facial recognition to improve resident emotional well-being
A Milwaukee senior living and care provider is using a new music video app to try to engage residents and improve their emotional well-being through personalized music.
Food runner robot serves up staff, resident satisfaction in continuing care retirement community
A food runner robot is helping a Chicago continuing care retirement community “transform the experience of aging” and saving staff member time and energy in the process.
Digital front doors helping to address physician shortages
Physician recruiting and staffing is continuing to become more challenging for assisting living, skilled nursing and other long-term care facilities of all sizes. In the face of mounting physician shortages, nurse and provider burn-out and changing patient expectations, alternative forms of healthcare delivery, such as telehealth, are becoming more important for addressing critical gaps in access to care.
From space station to Broadway play: Senior living residents get to travel in virtual reality program
Senior living residents in Bakersfield, CA, are getting a chance to immerse themselves in fantasy travel and adventures from the comfort of home as participants in a virtual reality program supported by a local energy company.
What we’ve learned about using telehealth to reach older adults during COVID-19
Lessons we’ve learned about how to most effectively reach older adults in affordable senior housing can be applied to efforts designed to reach any underserved population with digital health technology and training.
Regional Resilient Healthcare soon to go national with expansion of hospital-at-home movement
When physical therapist Jackleen Samuel launched Resilient Healthcare three years ago, it was tough to get hospital systems and health insurers to buy into the idea of hospital-at-home and long-term acute care at home.
Creators of augmented reality software should keep seniors in mind: study
Augmented reality (AR) — think the Pokemon Go game — may have many benefits for older adults living at home. But designers, for the most part, are not developing the software with this age group in mind.
3 ways tech use during pandemic will change long-term care forever
With major vaccination programs completed and visitation restrictions easing, life at long-term care facilities across the country is inching toward looking more like its pre-pandemic self. But even when COVID-19 is not a daily threat anymore, its effects will linger — in a positive way — through the use of technology that will change the industry forever.
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