AI plus wearable sensor may detect presymptomatic COVID-19
Jun 23, 2022
AI algorithm interpreting data from a wearable sensor bracelet that monitors changes in physiologic parameters might allow early detection.
Text messaging intervention does not improve COVID-19 vaccine uptake
Jun 13, 2022
No increase in vaccine uptake was seen for individuals receiving text message versus phone calls or for behaviorally informed message content.
Online breathing program can up mental health-related quality of life in long COVID
May 03, 2022
Significant improvement was seen in the mental health composite score but not in physical composite score of health-related quality of life.
More news for Friday, Feb. 4
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 04, 2022
Over-the-counter COVID-19 tests to be covered through Medicare … 2022 Top Workplaces USA includes organizations with ties to long-term care industry … HUD asked to reconsider approach to service values...
Fewer deaths reported with enrollment in COVID-19 remote monitoring
Nov 18, 2021
The remote monitoring service, COVID Watch, reduced deaths at 30 and 60 days and was associated with presentation to the emergency department sooner.
Regional Resilient Healthcare soon to go national with expansion of hospital-at-home movement
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 12, 2021
When physical therapist Jackleen Samuel launched Resilient Healthcare three years ago, it was tough to get hospital systems and health insurers to buy into the idea of hospital-at-home and long-term acute...
Seniors without social support, internet lag in race to get COVID-19 vaccines: news report
By
Joe Jancsurak
Feb 03, 2021
When it comes to seniors receiving the COVID-19 vaccines, there’s a growing divide between those who have social support and the ability to access the internet and those who don’t, a news article finds.
COVID testing program uses artificial intelligence to maximize limited resources in senior living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 12, 2021
A somewhat rare use of artificial intelligence in senior living is helping an operator maximize limited resources by predicting the severity of COVID-19 symptoms in residents to determine who should be...
Big senior living stories of 2020
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 22, 2020
A year ago, nobody in the U.S. senior living industry would have predicted that a pandemic would upend everyone’s personal and professional lives in 2020. But COVID-19 undoubtedly was the story of the...
Next Online Forum shares how to adapt telehealth, pest control during pandemic
Sep 01, 2020
The effects of pandemic telehealth and pest control in senior living and skilled nursing will be the focus of the McKnight’s Online Forum, COVID-19 Update VII, on Thursday, Sept. 10. Attendees can...