The past few years have brought plenty of challenges for senior living operators. But the year ahead could present a “recalibration” of some of the forces keeping the industry in a tough spot. Financial conditions, development and the state of senior living demand all are in flux in 2024, as evident in a new survey […]
This article is sponsored by SafelyYou. This article is based on a Senior Housing News virtual discussion with Shirley Nickels, COO at SafelyYou, Payam Parvinchiha, Vice President of Network Quality and Innovation at SCAN Health Plan, Austin Elkin, Vice President at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, and Jim Altrichter, National VP of Clinical Services at Anthem […]
Each second of each day in the United States, an older adult falls. And as the aging population grows, so will the number of falls and the related cost of care. Those figures are already massive, and they’re only growing. Falls cost our health system $50 billion a year, but by 2030, with 72 million […]
Senior living operators continue to show a growing interest in technology innovation to help deliver quality of care and a positive staff experience. And for two days in August, leaders from senior living came together with VCs, capital partners and innovators to build their knowledge and answer their questions during the inaugural Silicon Valley Senior […]
This article is sponsored by SafelyYou. This article is based on a Senior Housing News discussion with Shirley Nickels, Chief Operating Officer at SafelyYou, Melissa Dillon, Corporate Director of Memory Care at Senior Resource Group (SRG), and Jim Altrichter, National VP of Clinical Services at Anthem Memory Care. The discussion took place on July 21, […]
Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) has led a $30 million Series B funding round for fall management technology company SafelyYou. Omega also prepaid $10 million so that the real estate investment trust’s senior living and skilled nursing facilities can access the SafelyYou tech, which involves artificial intelligence to detect falls and video to review fall […]
SafelyYou, a tech startup centered around detecting and preventing falls in senior housing communities, has raised $19.5 million to accelerate the company’s growth. Eclipse Ventures led the Series-A funding along with Founders Fund and two of SafelyYou’s previous investors, DCVC and Foundation Capital. The company deploys AI-enabled cameras to consenting memory care residents’ rooms to […]
The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health and hospice care. To see this year’s future leaders, visit https://futureleaders.agingmedia.com/. SafelyYou CEO George Netscher has been named a 2021 […]
The summer solstice on June 20 marked the longest day of the year following the longest year of a lifetime for many. We heard a lot about parents not having childcare and elders not seeing their grandchildren, but everyone in the senior living industry also knows this has been an especially difficult time for those […]
This article is sponsored by SafelyYou. In this Voices interview, Senior Housing News sits down with SafelyYou CEO and founder George Netscher to learn why his company’s memory care fall prevention system has an 87% opt-in rate from seniors and family, why a liability insurance provider partnered with the company to reimburse for the technology […]
