Ventas sees strong pipeline of senior housing investments
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 02, 2024
Ventas is “focused on serving a large and growing aging population with an emphasis on senior housing,” the Chicago-based real estate investment trust said Monday in a business update issued in conjunction...
Digital avatars and AI could get seniors talking … especially those who can’t now
By
Aaron Dorman
Mar 26, 2024
Using AI could help create a digital avatar of someone and their voice to assist seniors whose language abilities were damaged by a stroke.
Shaping a better future for the human resources function in senior living and care
By
Dean Moore
Mar 25, 2024
The future of human resources may not be what it used to be, but it still could be bright for the right individuals.
Medicare to cover Wegovy when patients also have heart disease
Mar 22, 2024
Medicare will now cover the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy if patients using it also have heart disease, US officials announced Thursday.
40 percent in study of workplace-insured Americans delay care due to cost
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 22, 2024
Forty percent of workplace-insured Americans often delay seeing a physician due to the cost, according to a recent study by Nonfiction Research and commissioned by Paytient, a Columbia, MO-based provider...
Senior living occupancy rates increase steadily throughout the Midwest: analysis
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 21, 2024
Independent living and assisted living occupancy rates across the Midwest have slowly risen over the past several quarters, but they still remain below national averages of 87.9% and 84.5%, respectively....
More than 6 years later, GAO still looking for CMS to act on assisted living recommendation
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 19, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services still has not taken action on a recommendation made by the US Government Accountability Office in a January 2018 report on assisted living, the GAO said in...
Tech proactively addresses health risks in residents while creating new revenue streams
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 15, 2024
A collaboration between a digital care technology company and a rehabilitation provider is proactively addressing health risks in senior living residents and providing downstream cost savings.
HHS opens investigation into UnitedHealth cyberattack
Mar 14, 2024
Following a cyberattack on one of the nation’s largest health insurers that’s thrown healthcare payments into disarray and likely exposed reams of private patient data, the US Department of...
Curved walking study finds a new angle to detect cognitive impairment in seniors
By
Aaron Dorman
Mar 14, 2024
A curved walking route actually may be a better method than a straight one to detect mild cognitive deficit, researchers have found.