The importance of resident data in senior living communities
By
David Sawyer
Apr 11, 2024
The senior living industry faces challenges in effectively capturing resident data, leading to inefficiencies, missed opportunities and potential resident churn. Within these challenges, however, lies...
Technology-enabled behavioral healthcare experiences are here to stay
By
Michael Gorton
Oct 28, 2021
Behavioral telehealth prepares residents in assisted living communities, residential centers and nursing homes for life after COVID-19.
Telehealth: Driving more effective, qualitative and accessible care for U.S. seniors
By
Ed Mercadante, BSPharm, R.Ph., D.Sc.(Hon)
Apr 08, 2021
By improving access to quality care and the efficiency with which that care is delivered, telehealth has the potential to positively affect quality of life — and could serve as a catalyst that drives...
Social isolation: A serious but under-recognized health risk
By
Cathy Lipton, MD
Jul 28, 2022
How senior living communities can build on pandemic lessons to reduce loneliness.
Top 2021 senior living challenges: Clinical risk management upgrades, systemic understaffing issues
By
Peter Reilly
Gigi Acevedo-Parker
Jan 07, 2021
The COVID-19 vaccine started to roll out across the United States in mid-December with assisted living and nursing home staff members and residents, as well as other healthcare workers, first in line for...
3 ways to help senior living residents affected by water shortages
By
Klaus Reichardt
Aug 23, 2018
Executive directors and administrators must educate the residents in their care that water shortages are real, they may last for years and everyone must do his or her part to help supplies last.
Depression and falls: How data can lead to proactive care
By
Elissa Barpal, BSN, RN
Aug 18, 2022
Some symptoms of depression now can be monitored automatically, producing data that help caregivers be proactive about falls.
EAPs and other resources that senior living must put in front of its COVID-19-pressured workers
By
Glenn Day
Jul 30, 2020
With the resources to be found in EAPs, senior living and care employees will be better equipped to manage the pressures and continue to carry on.
Why comprehensive medication management is especially important now
By
Karmen L. Stephens, PharmD, BCGP
Mar 24, 2022
Comprehensive medication management, or CMM, is a whole-person approach to medication management that ensures that medications are appropriate, safe and effective, and that they support the individual’s...
How to engage senior living residents through technology
By
Anne Davis
Oct 22, 2020
Caring for residents of senior living communities has grown increasingly complicated in recent months. Long before the coronavirus put a spotlight on the threat of isolation, however, healthcare professionals...