The American Senior Housing Association (ASHA) has announced a new partnership that aims to use neuroscience to determine whether senior living communities are benefiting their residents. As part of the initiative, La Jolla, California-based NeuroVigil will monitor the aging brain and collect massive amounts of data from senior living residents through its non-invasive iBrain technology. The goal, […]
Category: Health Care
It’s not too far of a stretch to assume that aging and the onset of cognitive decline weighs on one’s financial decision-making later in life. However, a recent study suggests that waning cognition has a much greater impact in certain areas compared to others when it comes to managing finances. Published by the Center for Retirement […]
As senior housing providers compete to establish their footprint in an evolving health care landscape, one nonprofit’s newest Hudson, Wis.-based community is carving out a niche as catering to a specific health care need: dialysis. Woodland Hill —a new Presbyterian Homes & Services (PHS) independent, assisted living and memory care community — is collaborating with […]
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), which has been dipping its toes into the aging health care space of late, is now part of a group bidding for the Department of Defense’s (DoD) $11 billion electronic health record (EHR) contract. The tech giant was recently named as a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) bid for the DoD Healthcare Management Systems […]
Aging in place has become a hot topic among senior housing and care organizations. While some are looking to capitalize on the market through home care and home health agencies, others are rolling out their own programs — and getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in state funding to do so. One such organization is […]
The number of people age 50 and older in the U.S. who have substance use disorders is projected to more than double from 2.8 million in 2002 to 5.7 million in 2020, yet few senior living facilities have the resources to cope with the growing substance abuse epidemic. And as short-term stay rehabilitation and skilled […]
The central objective of remote monitoring technologies has always been to help seniors and the chronically ill live safely and independently in their own homes, and at lower costs than hospitals. To that end, a new study quantifies the range of savings that can be realized through the use of in-home health monitoring technologies, as […]
Though home care is often praised for being a more cost-effective solution than institutionalized health care one would receive in a hospital or skilled nursing facility, it is also subject to a lack of scrutiny when it comes to caregivers, according to a recent article from Kaiser Health News (KHN). An investigation conducted by KHN […]
Driven by the aging challenges faced by their parents, a number of tech executives have left positions at prominent Silicon Valley companies, like Google, to create a flurry of new startups and apps dedicated to elder care. And the trend doesn’t appear to be slowing down, suggests an article from re/code, especially as more entrepreneurs […]
A patient self-reporting tool for tracking symptoms of multiple chronic conditions, including dementia and Alzheimer’s, has been found to be both reliable and valid, according to a new Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Center for Aging Research study. Caregivers can also use this tool to report patient symptoms. The patient self-reporting version of the Healthy Aging Brain […]
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