Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has hired Ginna Baik as senior business development manager for senior living. With the hire, Amazon brings on board someone with deep experience in senior living to help drive the Alexa Smart Properties business, focused on deploying Alexa-enabled voice technology at scale. “I have been focused on senior living and technology for […]
Category: Technology
Three news items recently focused my attention on perhaps the biggest potential disruptor of senior living in the coming years: Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN). Here’s what the Seattle-based company has been up to lately: — Amazon hired industry veteran Ginna Baik as senior business development manager for senior living — Amazon Care is launching in all […]
Discovery Senior Living on Thursday announced the launch of a centralized contact center at its home office in Bonita Springs, Florida, which will handle all future senior housing inquiries and better vet them for local sales teams. This is the latest move in what is shaping up to be a year of rapid growth for […]
Senior living providers rapidly shifted to digital marketing and sales in the midst of Covid-19. Now, they are building on their digital strategies for 2021 and beyond — and while doing so does require more investment, the digital revolution is about much more than increasing spending or buying more online ad space. For its 2021 […]
When the dust settles on 2020, it will be remembered as the year when circumstances finally forced senior living providers to embrace technology in ways they were reluctant to in the past. “The tech genie has been loosed from the bottle and it’s not going to go back in,” LCS Senior Vice President and Chief […]
Papa, a service that provides on-demand companionship to older adults, now has gone nationwide and launched a new Papa Health service. Having raised a total of $31 million in venture capital, the startup is eyeing ways to work with senior living providers as it continues to expand. Founded in 2017, Papa provides on-demand assistance and […]
More than 1,400 Amazon Echo Show devices will be distributed to assisted living communities across North Carolina by the end of this month, at no cost to providers. That’s thanks to efforts made by the North Carolina Assisted Living Association (NCALA) and senior living-focused technology platform K4Connect. The association and K4Connect have worked together for […]
by Lynne Katzmann I can’t remember a new year that has brought more hope for a better future than this one. That said, many of us are entering the year knowing that our runway to success is long. But the flip side to every challenge is new opportunity. Here is where we believe the opportunities […]
“Last year, we thought that the 2020s would be a transformative decade — what an understatement. 2021 will set forth a new era in health care and senior living at large as a result of the pandemic.” These are the words of Ascension Living President Danny Stricker, but numerous other top executives in the industry […]
Chicago-based private equity firm Thoma Bravo is buying RealPage (Nasdaq: RP) in a deal that values the property management software platform at $10.2 million. . Richardson, Texas-based RealPage offers property and real estate management software and services for a range of real estate sectors including senior housing. The platform gives the ability to submit service […]
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