Tech Beat: Reemo, K4Connect

K4Connect and Eskaton Partner to Deploy Connected-Life Tech in California California-based Eskaton, a nonprofit community-based senior living provider, and North Carolina-based K4Connect, a mission-centered technology company, recently announced a strategic partnership to deploy K4Connect’s senior living solution, K4Community, in communities throughout California. Specifically, K4Community will be integrated into 10 of Eskaton’s planned and existing senior […]

CCRC Seeks Super-Charged Analytics with Smartwatch Pilot

Independent living and assisted living residents at a Minnesota continuing care retirement community (CCRC) will soon strap on Samsung smartwatches and help launch a new tech partnership in the senior care space. Founded in 2013, Reemo utilizes smartwatches and sensors to gather a variety of health data about senior living residents, and provides that in […]

How Providers Pick Winners in the ‘Wild West’ of Senior Technology

Oh, look—another technology designed for seniors is vying for funding and attention on a crowdfunding website. Will this one, unlike so many others, catch on? Lately, it seems like Kickstarter, Indiegogo and other crowdfunding websites have hosted their fair share of senior living technologies—to say nothing of the investment dollars that senior-focused startups are winning […]

Remote Monitoring Stigma Falls in Samsung Smartwatch Pilot

A technology solution that scored a partnership with Samsung is helping a senior living provider reduce falls, increase customer satisfaction and proactively intervene when residents’ health declines—in part, by leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT). And the smartwatch is taking some of the stigma out of remote monitoring, the pilot’s leaders have found. Sixty residents […]