Key to providing healthcare in senior living? ‘Just get started’
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 06, 2023
Thinking about tapping into Medicare payment models to deliver healthcare to senior living residents? One expert has some rather stark advice.
AI model using health records predicts Alzheimer’s disease up to 5 years before diagnosis
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 01, 2023
A team of researchers designed an artificial intelligence system that can predict which individuals will develop Alzheimer’s disease up to five years before a diagnosis.
Pandemic: Seniors feel better mentally, emotionally than middle-aged adults, but fewer plan to continue...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 04, 2021
During the pandemic, adults aged 65 or more years have fared better mentally and emotionally and as far as general quality of life than their counterparts aged 50 to 64, according to newly released results...
Aging innovation pilots target healthcare gaps to impact social isolation, loneliness
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 14, 2021
A Louisville, KY-based healthcare council is piloting two innovations in senior living communities to debut its Healthcare Innovation Engine.
$5 billion ‘Masks for All Act’ would cover senior living residents, healthcare workers
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 30, 2020
Every senior living resident in the country would receive three reusable masks at no charge under legislation introduced Tuesday by more than three dozen members of Congress, all Democrats.
Togetherness Program targets isolation, loneliness through senior-to-senior interactions
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 07, 2021
A new program is connecting older adults to each other to relate and share common experiences of social isolation exacerbated by the pandemic.
People in the news, Nov. 3
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 03, 2020
Appointments and promotions at Cadence Living, Friendship Health, Integral Senior Living, LeadingAge Florida, LeadingResponse, Life Care Centers of America, The Pennant Group, SCAN Group and TeleHealth...
People in the news, June 16
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 16, 2020
Appointments and promotions at Ashley Ponds, CRG, Five Star Senior Living, Green Oak Consulting Group, H Contract, Ingleside, Juniper Communities, Moseley Architects, SCAN, Spectrio, Westminster Communities...
National resource center should be created to address social isolation, loneliness: report
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 19, 2024
A national resource center should be created to provide leadership to address issues of social isolation and loneliness in older adults, according to a new report.
As one bill targeting transparency in assisted living dies, another rises
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 22, 2024
A proposed change in Arizona state law targeting transparency in assisted living communities has died after a Senate committee failed to take up the bill. But another bill with many of the same components...