OATS from AARP Partners with T-Mobile on Rural Initiative

Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) from AARP is working with T-Mobile to help rural seniors thrive in the digital age. The initiative will leverage Senior Planet from AARP, the OATS flagship program, to provide age-relevant technology training programs to organizations that serve older adults. AARP Foundation is a LeadingAge CAST Patron.

The multi-year sponsorship will give these organizations capacity-building training. It will provide a train-the-trainer model, free Senior Planet programming for older adult participants, and ongoing informational support for partners and participants alike.

OATS will work with 100 community partners who collectively serve over 4,300 older adults throughout Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. WV News and PR Newswire carried the news.

New SafelyYou Partnership to Increase Patient Safety

To assist senior living communities with falls prevention and response, LeadingAge Associate Business Partner SafelyYou has been listed as a non-exclusive analytic contractor for ECRI and the ISMP Patient Safety Organization (ECRI PSO). ECRI PSO maintains one of the largest patient safety reporting and learning systems—collecting and analyzing millions of patient safety events from members across 90% of the United States.

McKnight’s Senior Living featured the arrangement and its potential in “More risk management data on seniors and falls enabled by new partnership.”

SafelyYou is a leader in empowering safer, more person-centered dementia care through real-time AI video technology and 24/7 remote clinical experts. PSOs provide privileged protection for patient safety work for healthcare providers—including assisted living communities—seeking to improve quality measures, per the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (the “Patient Safety Act”). Business Wire also carried the news.