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Family Creates Popular Live-Streamed Shows for Memory Care Residents

Post date July 12, 2021
Post author By LeadingAge

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, life enrichment staff at Morningside Ministries, San Antonio, TX, were the communication links between residents and their families. With the help of Skype, Zoom, FaceTime, and plain old telephone calls, staff stayed busy setting up conversations. The memory care unit had only three tablets, so […]

Technology Helped This Provider Maintain a Human Touch During Pandemic

Post date July 12, 2021
Post author By LeadingAge

When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Sharon Towers, a life plan community in Charlotte, NC, suddenly needed to find new ways to keep residents engaged, and to facilitate communication between residents and their families and friends, who could no longer visit in person. Jessica Bourque, director of vitality and well-being, says […]

Innovating With Technology to Boost Resident Engagement

Post date July 10, 2021
Post author By LeadingAge

Like many providers, Kendal at Oberlin, a life plan community in Oberlin, OH, has a robust volunteer program that supplements its life enrichment team’s resident engagement efforts. The COVID-19 pandemic turned those plans upside-down. “We would have had almost 4,000 volunteer hours just dedicated to our assisted living and nursing […]

A Technology Workaround to Streamline Testing

Post date June 9, 2021
Post author By LeadingAge

Like other LTSS providers, Friendly Senior Living, Rochester, NY, found itself faced with expensive, difficult testing needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Director of Information Technology Joel Snyder, the pandemic meant not only managing the burden of frequent testing, but also complying with reporting requirements from both the state […]

Relationships Grow, Isolation Drops Thanks to Technology

Post date June 9, 2021
Post author By LeadingAge

When COVID-19 necessitated visitation restrictions, providers faced the challenge of keeping residents and their families in frequent communication, engaged, and well-informed. Miravida Living, Oshkosh, WI, achieved those goals by creatively and inexpensively repurposing existing technologies to create multiple channels of communication. Using simple software tools—not to mention plain old paper—the […]

Cutting-Edge Technology Brings Providers into the 21st Century

Post date June 8, 2021
Post author By LeadingAge

This story is powered by Greystone, a LeadingAge Gold Partner. Submit your story now. In the last 15 months, it has become crystal clear that technology—and its adoption, increased utilization, and constant enhancement—will be one of the driving factors to push the senior living industry into the 21st century. Technology […]