The financial impact of falls detection wearable devices on senior living communities’ NOI
By
Ted Tzirimis
Aug 29, 2024
The intersection of resident safety and financial sustainability has never been more critical, and tech solutions are reshaping the senior living industry landscape.
Home health earns top scores in key quality reporting measures
By
Adam Healy
Aug 21, 2024
Home health achieved the best results in two quality measures: discharge to community and Medicare spending per beneficiary.
Scrolling through online videos only increases boredom: study
Aug 19, 2024
Bored residents? The time they spend zipping through online videos isn’t going to help, a new study shows.
MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy beneficial for essential tremor
Aug 05, 2024
Improvement was seen in the mean tremor/motor score from 17.4 to 6.4 at three months with the use of MR-guided, focused ultrasound thalamotomy.
LifeLoop acquires Linked Senior, adding 600 senior living communities as customers
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 19, 2024
Denver-based LifeLoop has acquired resident engagement platform Linked Senior and added it to its own software platform, LifeLoop announced on Thursday.
Self-fit over-the-counter hearing aids beneficial in long term
Jul 17, 2024
The long-term benefits were comparable for self-fit over-the-counter hearing aids versus audiologist-fit hearing aids.
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...
AI can greatly improve caregiving, doctor says in JAMA interview
By
John O'Connor
Jul 10, 2024
Artificial intelligence has the potential to convert vast amounts of data into actionable knowledge, promising significant advancements in patient care and research.
CCRC faces class action lawsuit over alleged biometric data collection, use
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 08, 2024
A continuing care retirement / life plan community in Chicago is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that it used a timekeeping system that collected and stored biometric data using employees’ facial...
AI could open doors to advances in care, operations in senior living
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 01, 2024
Aging services organizations already are using artificial intelligence, whether or not they realize it, a panel of experts said Thursday.