Senior living providers can learn lessons about safety and security from their colleagues in skilled nursing facilities.
Post-lockdowns, regulators cast an eye toward security, preparedness weak spots
By
John Hall
Dec 02, 2022
For much of 2022, lockdowns and other restrictions tamped down the usual resident security concerns in the nation’s long-term care facilities. Still, workforce shortages meant fewer vigilant eyes and...
New options emerge
By
John Hall
Dec 04, 2018
Resident security in senior living today bears no resemblance to what it was just a decade ago. Locks and alarms — the stuff that long have defined resident security — always will be relevant. But...
Focus on briefs: Information technology
Feb 01, 2023
New study touts info tech access and training as ‘transformative,’ EHR study shows value of staff ‘computer time,’ but only to a point, FBI continues to warn healthcare workers of ongoing IT scam
A golden era of innovation in wound care is approaching
By
John Hall
Aug 01, 2022
Technology, improved practices are merging to create new, successful strategies for preventing, treating chronic wounds.
New currency?
By
John Hall
Apr 01, 2016
Health information is becoming increasingly valuable in this sector, thanks to its many uses.
It’s a rare operator who is not harnessing tech tools to help improve care and the bottom line.
It’s all about the data
By
John Hall
Dec 01, 2016
What’s changing every facet of senior living? In a word: data.
Tech: Only just begun
By
John Hall
Dec 01, 2017
Virtually every aspect of senior living is now being affected by tech innovation — and it appears things are just getting started.