ATLANTA: Two years ago, start-up firms were excitedly discussing pilot projects to add technology to assisted living, nursing and memory care facilities. Ideas included installing sensors in bathrooms and beds to help monitor medical issues, tablet-based medicine tracking systems to reduce mistakes and even the Read More »
Seniors housing facilities slow to adopt new technologies
Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets
LOS ANGELES: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers.
But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to effectively Read More »
Engineers develop tricorder biosensor that is worn on your chest
NEW YORK: Engineers working on developing an advanced sensor capable of monitoring the body’s electrical and biochemical signals have come up with a design that acts like the tricorder device seen in Star Trek.
The tricorder device in Star Trek is one of those gadgets from Read More »
Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award
NEW YORK: The three hundred and twenty-ninth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.
A Texas company plans to break ground Wednesday (May 25) on a $15 million senior citizens apartment center near Covington. Avanti Senior Living said the 77,000-foot development will Read More »