Robotics, automation can help solve staffing, efficiency challenges: panelists
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 09, 2022
Staffing challenges got you down? Robotics may help, according to panelists speaking Wednesday at the virtual LeadingAge Collaborative Care Tech Summit 2022. They shared how they are using robotics applications...
Technology, affordability, desirability key to attracting next generation of senior living residents
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 26, 2021
ATLANTA — The pandemic influenced and supported a desire among older adults to age in place rather than move into seniors housing. Now, according to experts, the industry needs to proactively respond...
3 ways tech use during pandemic will change long-term care forever
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 09, 2021
With major vaccination programs completed and visitation restrictions easing, life at long-term care facilities across the country is inching toward looking more like its pre-pandemic self. But even when...
Recovering from emotional, economic effects of pandemic will dominate senior living in 2021
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 04, 2021
Virus-related matters will dominate the actions of senior living owners and operators for the time being, industry leaders told McKnight’s Senior Living.
COVID-19 prompts closer look at healthcare in senior living, speakers say
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 21, 2020
The fear that COVID-19 has created about congregate living “is very real,” and the senior living industry must take steps to allay it, according to Nexus Insights founder and President Bob Kramer.
Parkinson on pandemic: IT investment key
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 16, 2020
COVID-19 is the biggest crisis to hit the long-term care industry in its history, but the question now is how to ensure that providers are prepared should something like it happen again, Mark Parkinson,...
McKnight’s 40 for 40: Majd Alwan, Ph.D.
By
John O'Connor
Mar 23, 2020
Senior living once was considered more high-touch than high-tech. No person has done more to change that perception than Majd Alwan, Ph.D.
Connected Living app adds coronavirus information
Mar 16, 2020
Connected Living is updating its free public app to provide real-time updates about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to senior living staff members, residents and families. It will include information...
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...