Text messaging improves cardiovascular risk factors
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 29, 2015
Semi-personalized text messages helped improve low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, blood pressure, body mass index and smoking status in people with coronary heart disease, according to a new study.
Agreement puts tablet devices into hands of home care clients in assisted living, elsewhere
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 09, 2017
Assisted living residents and individuals living in their homes who are clients of a New York home healthcare agency will be receiving Bluetooth-enabled tablet devices that can transmit their vital signs...
Poll: Health app use low among older adults
Feb 15, 2022
Younger respondents (aged 50 to 64 years) were more likely than those 65 years and older to have ever used a health app.
K4 Connect integrates Garmin wearable devices into its platform
By
Alyssa Salela
Jul 19, 2017
Technology company K4 Connect and Garmin International have partnered to encourage activity among senior living residents.
New technologies can protect adults from fraud: reports
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 02, 2016
New technologies can help protect older adults from fraud, according to two reports recently published by the World Economic Forum.
$16 million, 5-year study will test artificial intelligence in senior living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 29, 2017
IBM and the University of California San Diego on Thursday announced a $16 million, five-year collaboration that will test how artificial intelligence, or AI, can be used to help detect mild cognitive...
May 28, learn how to help residents combat loneliness and boredom
May 18, 2020
Because of COVID-19 restrictions, residents of senior living communities and skilled nursing facilities are even more at risk than usual for social isolation, loneliness and boredom. In a May 28 webinar,...
Wearables detect physiologic changes at COVID-19 symptom onset
Apr 22, 2022
Alterations were seen in basal heart rate, heart rate response to physical activity, circadian variation in heart rate and autocorrelation of heart rate.
CDC: Sepsis reaction could mean difference between life, death
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 23, 2016
Recognizing the signs of sepsis could mean the difference between life and death for your residents, according to a “Vital Signs” report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
COVID testing program uses artificial intelligence to maximize limited resources in senior living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 12, 2021
A somewhat rare use of artificial intelligence in senior living is helping an operator maximize limited resources by predicting the severity of COVID-19 symptoms in residents to determine who should be...