How to increase socialization while keeping seniors safe this fall.
Steps senior living operators can take to help ease staffing and recruitment struggles, including leveraging technology solutions.
In response to the pandemic, senior living operators have had to pivot quickly. These changes have resulted in a drastically different senior living industry—one embracing technology like never before.
Creative ways to keep residents engaged and prevent the negative impacts associated with isolation and deconditioning.
Technology and face-to-face care don’t have to be at odds with one another. Leveraging technology can free up caregivers to work at a more senior-friendly pace.
The Healthy Community model requires the adoption of ‘advanced technology’ designed to transform community operations and enhance overall resident care.
There are many skills that individual caregivers and senior living communities collectively must have in order to provide good care. One of the most important is effective communication.
Ensure continued safeguarding of residents and caregivers during COVID-19 and beyond with Philips advanced technology.
Preventing feelings of loneliness during the pandemic has been a challenge for many senior living communities. Learn how your community can continue to keep residents healthy and engaged.
We recently partnered with Senior Housing News to survey senior living industry leaders on how and why they are changing their approaches to technology in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With an advanced resident safety system, operators can see resident, staff and visitor locations in real-time, assign personalized geofence boundaries for quarantines, and remotely monitor caregiver and resident interaction from virtually any device.
The right cloud-based technology platforms can enable senior living communities to pivot quickly. As contact tracing and social distancing protocols become the new normal, real-time location systems can help track, trace, and prevent outbreaks to keep residents, staff, and visitors healthy.
As restrictions begin to ease, allowing visitors into your community may still expose residents and caregivers to infection. Manage the health of your community with virtual screening and survey tools.
From monitoring social distancing to ensuring a quarantined resident remains in a particular area, community management solutions are essential for helping you keep your residents and staff safe, and families at ease.
Powerful technology on mobile devices helps staff boost resident care – data on resident alerts enhance your community management. Now there is a new, easy way to manage help alerts from your community’s residents. No more radios and walkie-talkies.
As a senior recovers from a pelvic or lower limb fracture suffered in a fall, the incident may be behind them, but there is a tremendous amount of risk and uncertainty ahead. Seniors who break a hip are especially at risk.
For many seniors, maintaining their independence is second only to maintaining their health. They want to remain in their current setting as long as they can and with as little assistance as possible. But as they age, of course, the challenges mount.
Powerful technology on mobile devices helps staff boost resident care – data on resident alerts enhance your community management. Now there is a new, easy way to manage help alerts from your community’s residents. No more radios and walkie-talkies.
In order for ACOs to place their trust in senior care partners, the post-acute care provider must demonstrate that they can deliver effective transition coordination and quality care.
Every senior — regardless of their socioeconomic status — deserves to be safer in their home and tended to quickly in the event of a fall or other medical emergency.
The number one priority for executives and staff at senior living communities is providing high quality care. However, there are many factors that are making that standard increasingly hard to meet.
Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has presented challenges across the healthcare spectrum, complying with its mandates has prompted senior living communities to expand services and adopt advanced senior living solutions.
Nearly every senior living executive wants to control costs and improve profitability. See how some senior living communities are leveraging technology to maintain profitability.
While seniors want to preserve their independence and remain active, at least one in three falls in the U.S. every year.
Learn how AutoAlert, our advanced fall detection technology, detects more than 95% of falls and can automatically place a call for help if it detects a fall. AutoAlert is the most widely adopted fall...
With 1 in 3 seniors falling each year in the US, falling is a major health issue for older adults who want to maintain health and independence as well as for healthcare organizations under...
The staff and residents of the Friendswood senior living community explain how CarePoint with AutoAlert fall detection technology gives residents the freedom to get out and move around.
Residents needing wandering protection wear an unobtrusive tag. When the resident approaches a door it can be setup to notify staff and/or lock the door. The system provides freedom of mobility to residents in senior care facilities, while ensuring...
The new Philips CarePoint 6.0 central monitoring software is the foundation of your CarePoint resident safety system. Using wireless technologies strategically placed throughout your community, the CarePoint 6.0 central monitoring software...
Enhanced enterprise-wide data on resident alert calls and staff resources provide the transparency you need to fine-tune operations while helping to improve resident care.
Patients use Personal Emergency Response Services (PERS) as an element of chronic disease management more often than they do to report falls, according to recent research from Partners Connected Health (PCH) and Philips.
Dr. Alan Bugos, Head of Technology and Innovation, Philips Home Monitoring, is a recognized leader in healthcare innovation and a CAST Commissioner at LeadingAge. Here’s a video of his thought-provoking interview.
Our goal is to make sure each resident being monitored by a CarePoint system is safe and cared for quickly. We also aspire to build a solution that gives your community the tools it needs to operate with efficiency and reliability. The CarePoint system can be created with your operations in mind, to provide your staff with the tools...
When people think of senior care, they don't typically think of cutting-edge technology. However, with the advent of new technologies, the traditional ‘technology and geriatrics don't mix' paradigm is changing.
Disasters can strike quickly and without warning. For senior living communities in hurricane-prone areas, this means an emergency preparedness plan is absolutely critical. Community administrators and staff must have answers.
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