In 2019, Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian told me that he expects senior living to be disrupted within 10 years. Here’s how I summed up his thinking: “Ohanian believes that a new senior living brand could emerge that has ‘amazing software really built into every bit of the process,’ to better appeal to and serve the […]
Tech-forward home care company Honor has acquired Home Instead, one of the largest home care providers in the U.S, in a move that would create a company with more than $2.1 billion in home care services revenue and potentially impact the senior living industry. Omaha, Nebraska-based Home Instead is an in-home care services franchisor with […]
Amazon Care and St. Louis-based health system Ascension are helping to launch a new home-based care policy alliance with at least five other health care and home-based care companies. The alliance, called Moving Health Home, has a stated goal of “working to change federal and state policy to enable the home to be a clinical […]
It’s well known that the topics of senior living and long-term care can be tough to broach with seniors—but a new survey sheds light on exactly how difficult it often is. More than 75% of seniors feel greater comfort planning for their funeral than planning for their final years, according to a survey recently conducted by international […]
The market for health care technology abounds with a plethora of startups striving to develop the next big thing that improves quality of care in the most cost-efficient manner possible. As one global startup accelerator takes its network to the next level, such technologies may soon hit the market for senior living organizations in the […]
The growing industry for in-home care for aging Americans may actually stand to benefit those who are not yet in need of care themselves, but wish to continue working in light of saving for retirement under the current economic conditions. U.S. News reported this week on an increasing phenomenon presented by the opportunities for this […]
