LeadingAge and CAST Members Recognized at 2026 McKnight’s Tech Awards + Summit

Twelve LeadingAge and CAST members were honored with Excellence in Technology Awards at the 2026 McKnight’s Tech Awards + Summit, held online Sept. 15-16, 2026. The following articles shared details on the winning projects and listed all awardees and finalists.

• “These winning operators harnessed tech to improve engagement and onboarding” featured LeadingAge Business Members Cubigo and Zemplee.
• “These providers mastered tech to improve resident safety, workforce efficiency” featured LeadingAge Bronze Partners with CAST Focus LCS, MatrixCare, and Netsmart; LeadingAge CAST Patron RiverSpring Living; LeadingAge Business Members  Helpany, Tenera Care, and Viconic Health; and LeadingAge Member Jewish Home.
• “These senior living and care providers drive innovation in AI, EHR integration, safety” featured LeadingAge Gold Partner with CAST Focus PointClickCare; LeadingAge Bronze Partners with CAST Focus LCS and MatrixCare; LeadingAge Business Members ALIS,  Helpany, Tenera Care, Viventium + Apploi, and Zemplee.

Four LeadingAge and CAST members were included in coverage of the event’s webinars on current technology opportunities.

• In “Buzz and business impact: Where AI is delivering value,” Allison Rainey, head of nursing and clinical informatics at LeadingAge Bronze Partner with CAST Focus MatrixCare, and Jeremy Crowe, the firm’s head of revenue cycle management, shared their insights.
• The article “5 ways top operators get staff members to actually adopt AI, other tech tools” shares the experience of Angela Belfer, clinical project manager at LeadingAge CAST Patron RiverSpring Living, and Manny Cominsky, co-founder and CEO of LeadingAge Business Member Sunbound.
• “Balancing tech and dignity: How providers can responsibly select and deploy AI and other tools” featured the executive vice president of product development at LeadingAge Business Member Sentrics, Damon Lamb.

Engagement Tech Article Features Ziegler, Acts Retirement-Life Communities, and Uniguest

In a story on smarter engagement of residents, McKnight’s Senior Living cites findings from the 2026 CTO Hotline report from Ziegler Link•age Funds and LeadingAge CAST. Investment bank Ziegler is a Leading Age Gold Partner with CAST Focus.

The story presents the successes of Acts Retirement-Life Communities, a LeadingAge CAST Patron, which employed technology to more than double the average daily resident engagement and reduce social isolation by 94%. The article also highlights LeadingAge Business Member Uniguest, which the report identified as the market leader among social connectedness and engagement software solutions, and its Community Hub platform.

LifeLoop Partners with Compass Senior Living in 38 Communities

LifeLoop, a LeadingAge Bronze Partner with CAST Focus and leading proactive engagement and whole-person wellness platform for senior living, has partnered with Compass Senior Living, a nationally recognized senior living operator.

The partnership empowers Compass to standardize and scale its purpose-driven resident experience across 38 communities in nine states, using LifeLoop as the technology foundation for personalized well-being, efficient staff workflows, and connected engagement. PR Newswire shared the announcement through a LifeLoop release.

ALIS Featured for Enabling Providers to Invent Tech Solutions

In a recent Senior Housing News article sponsored by LeadingAge Business Member ALIS, CEO John Shafee says that “AI has democratized inventing.” The article shares three examples of senior living providers using the ALIS platform to solve operational challenges.

Adava Care created a “digital nurse” to fill out reviews for psychotropic medicines, Longevity Senior Living built a clinical tracker that assigns a risk score to each resident, and Solera Senior Living created an agentic AI reviewer to reconcile passive monitoring technology and ALIS documentation.