Could something as simple as a pre-meal pill really reverse Type 2 diabetes? The results of a preclinical study in rats, conducted by researchers at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, suggest...
CAST makes it easier to use tech to improve social links
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Amy Novotney
May 08, 2018
In its ongoing effort to help long-term care providers ensure older adults have access to quality care and a sustained quality of life as they age, the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technology (CAST)...
Technology boosts nursing home care, study reveals
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Amy Novotney
Nov 05, 2016
Long-term care administrators can expect to see an even greater push to share data electronically with hospitals and other post-acute facilities, thanks to new research out of the University of Missouri.
Voice assistants finding niche with elders
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Amy Novotney
Sep 05, 2018
As voice recognition technologies such as Amazon Echo, Google Home and Apple Homepod become more inexpensive and accessible, the long-term care profession has begun taking notice of the promises such devices...
Fired ombudsman settles for $285,000
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Amy Novotney
Feb 08, 2018
The state of New Mexico is paying $285,000 to settle a law- suit led by the state’s former long-term care ombudsman, who claimed she was red illegally in June 2016, according to the Santa Fe New...
SNF worker fired after Facebook request
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Amy Novotney
Nov 06, 2017
A Florida nursing home fired one of its nursing assistants in September after she requested help for the facility on Facebook in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.
Training clears facility, not aides, in heat-related death
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Amy Novotney
Nov 06, 2017
Two former caretakers at an Illinois long-term care facility have been charged with Class 3 felony counts of criminal neglect in the death of a 69-year-old resident with developmental disabilities, who...
States to get $3 billion for Medicaid system upgrades
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Amy Novotney
Jan 04, 2016
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a rule in December to permanently retain funding that helps states upgrade the technology they need to allow their residents to enroll in Medicaid.
Technology bytes
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Amy Novotney
Oct 05, 2015
Working together to streamline electronic prescribing is a ‘work in progress’ that continues to challenge operators, prescribers and pharmacists to get it right
Meet Sharell Shippen, 2023 Rising Star
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Amy Novotney
Aug 10, 2023
Learn more about Sharell Shippen, Director of Spirituality, HumanGood, Duarte, CA.