Sentrics Thought Leader Shares Advice on How Analytics Can Optimize Staffing

Kunaal Goel, vice president of analytics and insights at Sentrics, a LeadingAge Gold Partner with CAST Focus, authored a Marketplace column featured in McKnight’s Senior Living. “Harnessing analytics to optimize staff efficiency and reduce burnout in senior living” discusses ways to optimize staffing using descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.

The article gives examples of how analytics can help providers to understand and predict the number of calls caregivers must respond to. Providers then can adjust staffing so that caregivers respond to consistent numbers of calls, to avoid burnout, while residents receive the care they need.

PointClickCare Enhances Senior Living with New Purpose-Built Solutions

PointClickCare Technologies, a LeadingAge Gold Partner with CAST Focus, presented at the Argentum Senior Living Executive Conference. PointClickCare is a leading healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful care collaboration and real-time patient insights. From April 29 – May 1, the company exhibited its latest solutions, including Pharmacy Connect, PointClickCare Connect for Senior Living, and Mealtime Solutions, a brand-new all-in-one foodservice management technology, powered by MealSuite.

As part of its effort to further empower senior living providers to become the community of choice for residents and staff alike, PointClickCare showcased these new innovations, which have been specifically designed to meet the unique needs of senior living communities. BusinessWire and Yahoo! Finance carried the news.

LifeLoop Releases 5^th Annual Senior Living Industry Report

LifeLoop, a LeadingAge Bronze Partner with CAST Focus, has released its “2024 Report: The state of senior living and technology.” This is the fifth installment of an annual investigative series into the industry’s changing needs and acute challenges, industry trends, and the evolving role of technology.

The 2024 issue reveals senior living leaders are optimistic about a more tech-forward future, yet two essential components are necessary for success: a comprehensive technology platform to scale meeting stakeholder demand and purpose-built applications of emerging technologies, including AI. LifeLoop is a leading solutions provider for senior living engagement and operations. Yahoo! Finance carried the news.

LifeSpace Communities, RiverSpring Living, and CarePredict Featured in HealthTech

Three CAST members were featured in a recent HealthTech article, “How Senior Care Organizations Are Using Tech to Attract and Retain Staff.”

Lifespace Communities, a LeadingAge CAST Patron, was featured for its new career website intended to aid recruitment and its use of Workday, an enterprise human capital management system, to manage efficiently manage a limited workforce. Lifespace is also piloting CarePredict, a LeadingAge Corporate Partner and digital health platform that leverages wearable devices and AI.

RiverSpring Living CIO and CAST Commissioner David Finkelstein shared their recent innovations. These include a ceiling-mounted robot called ZeroG for resident physical therapy, a Robot named Pepper that uses facial recognition to interact with residents, a remote ordering system in the dining hall, and a new nurse call system with detailed reporting. RiverSpring Living is a LeadingAge CAST Patron.

SafelyYou Announces Expansions

SafelyYou is a LeadingAge Corporate Partner that enables 300+ leading senior living communities to reduce falls, risks, and costs, while increasing retention and revenue and empowering caregivers to focus on care.

New Perspective Senior Living has announced further investments in SafelyYou system, as part of a company-wide effort to better detect and prevent resident falls, says a recent article in McKnight’s Senior Living.

Allegro Senior Living, which operates 16 communities, announced it is expanding use of the SafelyYou senior safety technology after a successful pilot program that reduced falls by 42%. The news appeared in Open Minds.