Presenters at LeadingAge Annual Meeting Featured in HealthTech

HealthTech featured several LeadingAge CAST members in its coverage of the LeadingAge Annual meeting, held Nov. 3-5 in Boston, and its Aging Services Technologies sessions.

LeadingAge 2025: How Senior Care Organizations Are Evolving with AI opens with LeadingAge CAST Vice President Scott Code’s insights on the inaugural CTO Hotline Survey, which studies technology adoption in aging services.

Joe Velderman, chief strategy officer at K4Connect and a board member of the Parker Health Group, a LeadingAge CAST Patron, discussed the links between effective data and large language models. Travis Gleinig, vice president of innovation and CIO at United Methodist Communities, a LeadingAge CAST Patron, emphasized the importance of culture change in fostering AI adoption. Raymond Benegas, Vice President of IT at Presbyterian Living, a LeadingAge member, highlighted the need for AI oversight and protecting data privacy. Steven VanderVelde, director of senior living partnerships at ProviNET Solutions, a LeadingAge Corporate Member, was pictured as a valuable member of this important panel.

Several LeadingAge members were also profiled in “LeadingAge 2025: Preparing To Meet Changing Demands in Senior Care.” CDW Healthcare Strategist Liz Cramer noted the growth in new aging technologies companies as well as more interest in wellness monitoring, and CDW Healthcare Strategist David Anderson mentioned changing and more serious consideration of AI. CDW Healthcare is a LeadingAge Bronze Partner with CAST Focus. Anderson, along with David Lafferty, CIO of LeadingAge CAST Patron Riverwoods Group, emphasized the importance of robust infrastructure to support new technologies like AI and smart home devices.

PointClickCare Unveils New Platform to Redefine Care Coordination and Resident Wellness

PointClickCare, a leading health tech company helping providers deliver exceptional care, previewed its next-generation platform for senior living communities at the 2025 LeadingAge Annual Meeting in Boston. Designed to empower staff and elevate resident wellness, the platform delivers modern, purpose-built workflows and seamless connectivity to North America’s most comprehensive care network. Commercially available to customers in 2026, this new platform sets a bold new standard for personalized wellness coordination in senior living. PointClickCare is a LeadingAge Gold Partner with CAST Focus.

The next-generation platform reimagines how technology supports staff, streamlines operations, and delivers unmatched resident experiences. What differentiates PointClickCare is its access to North America’s largest long-term and post-acute care dataset, with decades of real-world insights from millions of resident journeys. A company release appeared on PR Newswire.

Fil Southerland of Yardi Authors Column on Technology’s Value to Value-Based Care

Fil Southerland, director of health care solutions at Yardi and a LeadingAge CAST Commissioner, authored a guest column in Seniors Housing Business, “Value-Based Care is Key to The Next Generation of Senior Living.” It shares as an example data collection that helps care teams to understand a patient’s social and health history, clinical background, and key risk factors to identify health challenges early and reduce hospital readmissions.

Southerland covered how predictive analytics enables providers to be proactive around resident care, while also being able to quantify the effect of clinical and operational risk factors on net operating income. He noted that technology supports partnerships among physicians, payers, caregivers, and community leaders. Yardi is a LeadingAge Bronze Partner with CAST Focus that transforms senior living with one solution.