‘Gossip bots’ one day may serve as personal caregiver assistants to older adults with dementia
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 01, 2020
A robot named Pepper is being eyed as a solution to addressing overwhelmed frontline healthcare workers and older adults living in assisted living communities experiencing loneliness due to the COVID-19...
Dementia-focused programming highlights individuals over disease
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 15, 2022
Care for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is getting a boost from training and education programs designed to highlight the individuals and not the disease.
Ascension, Google Health data search tool moves closer to adoption in senior living communities
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 19, 2021
A clinical search tool for electronic health records being piloted by about 250 clinicians eventually will be rolled out to Ascension Living’s senior living and care communities to improve resident,...
Resiliency training can help combat compassion fatigue
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 25, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed senior living and other aging services workers to unprecedented trauma and loss. As the world emerges from those dark days, workers now are exhibiting compassion fatigue,...
Amazon partnership lands Alexa-enabled devices in Atria, Eskaton communities
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 27, 2021
A partnership between Amazon and senior living providers is bringing Alexa-enabled devices into residents’ homes in an effort to ease communication and customize experiences.
Nurse cleared of posting racist remarks on social media, but she and her senior living employer pay a...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 30, 2020
A nursing supervisor at an assisted living and memory care community has been cleared of any wrongdoing after accusations that she sent racist messages to another woman. But she and her employer have paid...
Brookdale’s staffing algorithm under fire for alleged chronic understaffing of communities
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 02, 2024
One national senior living company’s staffing algorithm drew repeated complaints from building managers for failing to capture the nuances of caring for older adults, leading to residents going without...
Artificial intelligence program creates person-centered programming options for senior living residents
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 30, 2021
Benchmark Senior Living is using artificial intelligence to identify residents’ common interests, create digital memoirs and inform programming development.
CCRCs to participate in $3 million test of robots to curb resident loneliness, apathy
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 27, 2020
Two Ohio continuing care retirement communities will participate in a $3.13 million study testing whether socially assistive robots, some of which are shaped like animals, can encourage social interaction...
Barriers prevent independent living residents from realizing full benefits of telemedicine: study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 18, 2022
Perceived limitations to video visits, new technology learning curves and a preference for in-person care create substantial barriers to independent living residents connecting to care providers through...