Empowering ‘deeply undervalued’ caregivers would improve ‘lifeline for older adults’
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 28, 2024
Direct care workers and family caregivers remain “deeply undervalued” and often overlooked despite calls for investment in the care economy, according to the authors of a new report.
Identifying highest-risk assisted living communities key to tackling next outbreak: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 22, 2024
The public health response to COVID-19 in assisted living communities in New York highlights the need to identify those communities at highest risk of infectious disease outbreaks to provide necessary...
Telehealth access mitigates anxiety in assisted living residents: study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 14, 2024
Telehealth appeared to mitigate anxiety during the pandemic for assisted living and nursing home residents with higher pre-COVID anxiety, and ensuring telehealth access during potential future pandemic...
Proposed legislation would dedicate $5 million for telemedicine infrastructure for assisted living, nursing...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 13, 2024
Expanding access to telehealth is the goal of a proposed bill in South Dakota that would provide millions in funding for assisted living communities and nursing homes across the state to implement telemedicine...
Grant program to allow ‘significant’ investment in innovative technology in assisted living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 18, 2024
Assisted living communities and nursing homes in South Dakota now can apply for $2 million in grants from the state Department of Human Services to buy technology equipment “to improve the quality of...
Assisted living cheers CMS guidance to continue HCBS flexibilities adopted during pandemic
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 04, 2023
Updated guidance released Wednesday by the federal government will extend state home- and community-based waivers that had been implemented during the COVID-19 public health emergency. The move has care,...
New senior living tech juggernaut will ‘transform’ model facilities into software testing ground,...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aaron Dorman
Sep 29, 2023
An assisted living and memory care community is being converted into a testing ground for new software solutions and tech like patient monitoring.
$5M in grants now available to assisted living communities for telemedicine tech
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 09, 2024
Assisted living communities and other long-term care providers now can access $5 million in funding to install telemedicine technology and infrastructure after South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) signed...
National resource center should be created to address social isolation, loneliness: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 19, 2024
A national resource center should be created to provide leadership to address issues of social isolation and loneliness in older adults, according to a new report.
Report: Alternative approaches to senior living, LTSS needed for growing older adult population
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 01, 2023
Only 13% of adults aged 75 or more years who are living alone across 97 US metro areas can afford to move into an assisted living community without starting to cash in their assets, according to “Housing...