One assisted living community supplemented existing communication efforts by using a web platform to relay everyday interactions to residents' family members. In this way, the community strengthened ties and also improved marketing efforts. Read More »
An updated portfolio of tools from LeadingAge’s Center for Aging Services Technologies is designed to assist long-term care and post-acute providers in the market for electronic health record systems. Read More »
In hospitals and long-term care settings, caregivers often have to change tubing on medical equipment. A high risk of misconnection exists because of various compatible delivery systems, so the Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert. Read More »
The challenges of social media can extend beyond the actions of a long-term care community and its employees to the actions of residents' family members, as a recent lawsuit points out. Read More »
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Intel have announced a technology-based collaboration to improve research and treatment for Parkison's disease. Read More »
A $1.2 million federal grant will help researchers assess the usefulness of health monitoring technology for people who have Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, and their family caregivers. Read More »
Not-for-profit integrated health system Sentara Healthcare has become a 12 percent partner in long-term care pharmacy management company NuScriptRX and also now has a seat on the NuScriptRX board. Read More »
