| What is the Sodexo-Healthsense partnership about? |
Sodexo Senior Living has embarked on a new partnership with Healthsense to serve your clients and to improve the daily life of seniors. Healthsense aging services technology solutions are designed to meet the needs of the entire care continuum. The fully integrated solutions increase independence and improve quality of life for older adults and also enhance communities by lowering the cost of care and by improving the experiences of older adults, families and caregivers...
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| Healthsense Uses CradlePoint to Connect Caregivers with Older Adults 24/7 |
Healthsense looked to CradlePoint as a solution provider to meet the challenges of connecting a comprehensive remote health monitoring and application system. With CradlePoint solutions, Healthsense can maintain its values to lower the cost of care, increase independence and improve the experiences of older adults, families and caregivers by providing technology systems that enable people to live independently as long as possible...
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| Wi-Fi in Healthcare |
Wi-Fi is widely used today in hospital settings as the communications backbone for traditional PC networking. It offers clinicians and IT departments reliable, security protected transmission of data and messaging. Wi-Fi systems are flexible to grow and adjust to the changing needs found in hospital settings -- from PC networking growth to the proliferation of Wi-Fi devices on the network, ranging from smartphones and tablets to patient monitoring devices...
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| Wi-Fi for SmartGrid |
This paper describes the suitability of Wi-Fi technology for use in the Smart Grid infrastructure. Smart Grid solutions are being driven by the desire for more efficient energy usage worldwide. The Smart Grid communications network will be a heterogeneous network based on many different standards. Wireless technology will certainly be part of any future Smart Grid. Wi-Fi is cost effective, scales to cover large geographies and many endpoints, and requires no new cabling within the home...
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| State of Wi-Fi Security |
Wi-Fi is one of the most widely used and trusted technologies in the world, with a strong, globally recognized brand. Users value its reliable performance, simplicity, and wide availability. Wi-Fi is everywhere--at work, at home, in public hotspots. Users access Wi-Fi networks with laptops, mobile phones, cameras, game consoles, and an increasing number of other consumer electronic devices...
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| Proper Planning for Technology |
When planning the construction of a senior living community, organizations face many important decisions relating to the design and function of their future community. One important aspect that is often left out of the Design and Development stage is the selection of an emergency call or remote monitoring system...
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| State of Shame, The Philadelphia Inquirer |
Peer into the files of Pennsylvania's assisted-living industry and confront a catalog of horrors. Betty Trainer, 81 and suffering from dementia, died of heat exhaustion in 2005 after wandering off from her Bucks County care home during a fire drill. They found her body near her husband's grave. June Loth, 74, who raised her family in Levittown, succumbed to complications from when she was raped in 2004, authorities say, by a live-in handyman in a home outside Pittsburgh...
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| "Intelligent" Homes Designed to Help the Elderly, CTV.ca |
Scientists in Toronto say they have are developing artificially intelligent computer systems to help elderly people suffering from memory loss stay safely in their own homes. "Often when a person gets moderate to severe levels of impairment, they are taken out of their home and put into a care facility," says lead scientist Dr. Alex Mihailidis, a mechanical and biomedical engineer and researcher at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute...
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| Elderly Still Falling After Preventative Coaching, Contemporary Long Term Care |
A recent study by the University of Wisconsin suggested fall prevention coaching for seniors did not decrease the number of falls that occurred, according to the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The 349 subjects were 65 or older, with a history of either two falls within the past year or one fall that left them with an injury or balance problem in the past two years. Trained nurses performed a series of intervention techniques, starting with an initial fall risk assessment using an algorithm...
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| Man Lies Dead in Shower for Days, Floods Apartment Building, Star Tribune |
A Minneapolis seniors' housing project had to be vacated and the residents placed in hotels after a bizarre incident saw massive areas of the building flooded. Inspectors are saying the incident was among the most unusual they had ever seen. A 68-year-old resident was apparently taking a shower when at some point he died. For four days his corpse lay there, with the shower running...
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| Atrium Nursing Home Operator Guilty in Death of Resident, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
A jury yesterday convicted former nursing home administrator Martha F. Bell and the facility she operated on all of the charges they faced in the death of former resident Mabel Taylor. After hearing testimony for more than four weeks, the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court jury found Mrs. Bell and the nursing home guilty of neglect of a care-dependent person, involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment...
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| Man Trapped by Sink for Three Days, FOX 9 News |
Neighbors thought it was strange when they didn't see 77-year-old Donald Vigen for days. And after spending three days looking for a response, someone finally called the police. After breaking into Vigen's apartment near 25th and Nicollet in South Minneapolis, police found the man stuck behind his sink -- where he'd been for three days, without food, water or any way to get help...
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| As Boomers Nearing Retirement, Concern Mounts Over Elderly Care, Associated Press |
As the huge baby boomer generation surges toward retirement age, an unsettling issue grows ever more pressing: finding the work force to tend to the millions of boomers who will someday need ongoing care because of physical and mental frailties. Alarm is spreading across the health care sector in the face of stark demographics...
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