Smartphone reminders, mobile health apps offer benefits for older adults: researchers
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 09, 2022
Older adults could benefit from smartphone reminders and mobile health apps in managing medications and chronic conditions, according to two recent studies.
Rehospitalization increased with delayed home healthcare in diabetes
Sep 09, 2021
Racial/ethnic-minority patients are less likely to receive services within 14 days after discharge to home healthcare.
Community health workers help affordable senior housing residents age successfully: case study
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 19, 2021
Affordable senior housing residents’ physical, mental and social health generally improve with the help of community health workers, according to a new case study from the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass...
Some diabetics confront racial barriers to home health, study finds
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 06, 2021
Hispanic and Native American patients with diabetes are discharged far less to home health from hospitals compared with White patients, according to a recent study.
Walgreens steps up at-home COVID-19 testing capabilities
By
Joe Jancsurak
Mar 22, 2021
Walgreens has expanded its digital health platform, Walgreens Find Care, to include 11 new and four expanded collaborations with service providers.
A LeadingAge survey measuring the effects of COVID-19 on affordable senior housing providers found spikes in COVID-19 cases at communities, severe financial strain among providers and concerns about resident...
Long-term care residents remain on top of priority list for COVID-19 vaccine
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 25, 2020
Older adults living in long-term care facilities moved down on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 vaccination priority last, following healthcare workers, essential workers and...
Planning an outing to the fair? Avoid the pigs
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 15, 2016
If your activities calendar has a trip to an upcoming county or state fair on it, you’ll want to bypass the pig exhibits, based on new information from the CDC.