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 the unit’s 40 residents had to wait their turn to call family via Skype.
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.
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.
Ziegler, a LeadingAge Gold Partner with CAST Focus, has released a new white paper to help adult children find the best place for their parents to live, McKnight's Senior Living reported in "Digital media get interested customers in the front door: Ziegler."
Telehealth has received another boost with two new bills introduced in the United States House of Representatives. McKnight's Senior Living reported the news in a recent article.
Artificial intelligence can greatly improve caregiving, yet it can also cause resistance among older adults, says a recent article in The Guardian.
Sensors that monitor things such as an older adult's movement and toileting activities can enable caregivers to be "as efficient as potentially possible," Majd Alwan, Ph.D., CAST executive director and senior vice president of technology and business strategy at LeadingAge, told The Guardian.
A new white paper by Ziegler, a LeadingAge Gold Partner with CAST Focus, discusses key workforce-related trends impacting the smart aging sector.
The 21st Century Cures Act has implications for long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) and aging services providers, and a recent LeadingAge webinar explains how. You may now watch the recording of “Virtual Update: The 21st Century Cures Act.”
The pandemic has underscored the importance of being data-driven, delivering results for LeadingAge CAST Patron HumanGood, says the latest LeadingAge CAST case study.
HumanGood, which offers 21 life plan communities in six states and 95 affordable housing communities nationwide, decided in 2019 to become a "mission oriented, performance driven" organization. By 2020, HumanGood saw its business performance rise—including a 40% savings in labor costs.
Person-centered care, telehealth innovations, and the ways that technology can support an engaging lifestyle for older adults were center stage at the virtual Collaborative Care & Health IT Innovations Summit, held June 8-10, 2021.
