CDC: Sepsis reaction could mean difference between life, death
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 23, 2016
Recognizing the signs of sepsis could mean the difference between life and death for your residents, according to a “Vital Signs” report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Senior living providers need strategic AI plans ‘as soon as possible,’ expert says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 15, 2024
Artificial intelligence increasingly is being used by senior living operators and the companies that serve them, and those operators that haven’t implemented it risk being less efficient than their competitors...
New research can help you attract prospective employees, residents
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 20, 2024
To attract prospective employees or residents, your senior living community must meet them where they are. If you’re hoping to meet them on social media, new research provides a roadmap of sorts.
Get rewarded for what you’re doing with tech, and find out what others are doing, too
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 22, 2023
If your organization is doing great things with technology to help keep residents healthy and connected, help staff members be more efficient, or help improve the bottom line, we want to hear about it,...
Business briefs, Aug. 31
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 31, 2022
American Senior Communities first in US to deploy MyndVR 3.0 with HTC VIVE Flow Immersive Glasses … Opinion: Tighten up Medicaid eligibility these ways … Omnicare parent CVS named to top 10 lists for...
Ready or not, here it comes — in fact, it’s here
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 29, 2022
From tools that help employers improve the recruiting and retention of workers to self-driving cars that help residents get around in Florida or California, senior living already has a front-row seat to...
Tick tock, TikTok: Making time for fun in retirement
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 25, 2022
I read this week about a retirement community in West Hollywood, CA, that has six residents aged 70 to 85. Except “Retirement House” isn’t a real place, and the “residents” don’t really live...
It’s time to be recognized for your use of tech
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 21, 2022
Enter the 2022 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards. The deadline is June 30 — a week from Thursday! — and the only cost for you to enter is your time.
Get rewarded for your use of tech during the pandemic
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 10, 2021
If your community used tech during this past year — simple or advanced — to improve services, care or operations, we want you to be recognized for those efforts.
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.