Lyft, GreatCall test senior transportation program
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 30, 2016
Older adults in select markets who use Jitterbug cell phones will be able to arrange for transportation from ride-hailing service Lyft under a new pilot program announced Tuesday.
VoiceFriend is now Amazon Alexa-enabled
May 21, 2018
Senior living communities and skilled nursing facilities that use the VoiceFriend automated notification technology now can communicate information and notices to residents, family members and staff via...
Eversound expands into all Highgate Senior Living communities
Apr 12, 2018
Issaquah, WA-based Highgate Senior Living has partnered with Boston-based Eversound to offer the company’s audio technology system in its nine independent living, assisted living and memory care...
How to win the online ratings game
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 07, 2015
The president of a senior living ratings and reviews website shares three common qualities of highly regarded providers and three ways that operators can secure good online reviews and ratings from residents...
$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...
Monitoring, documenting technologies popular among providers, LeadingAge and Ziegler find
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 12, 2019
Safety monitoring technologies and electronic documentation technologies are among the most widely adopted technologies at the largest not-for-profit multi-site senior living and care organizations surveyed...
Boomer poll: Senior living tops home for dementia care
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 19, 2019
Older baby boomers’ top choice of where to live if they were to have dementia is a senior living community, according to the results of a new LeadingAge–NORC poll revealed Monday at the LeadingAge...
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...
Nursing Home Compare-like site for assisted living to launch next month
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 25, 2017
A new national database launching in October has the goal of making it easier for assisted living operators and capital providers to search for and compare communities from across the country.
Older adults already are taking advantage of remote monitoring, smartphone apps and ambient computing to help them age in place, and they have the means to motivate technology companies to keep the innovations...