IvedaCare assistant monitors home care patients with AI
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Foster Stubbs
Dec 05, 2022
From HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey” to Schwarzenegger’s “Terminator,” artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a threat to human existence. To Iveda founder and CEO, David Ly, AI is…
VITAS earns distinction for DEI efforts
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Foster Stubbs
Nov 28, 2022
Typically, an individual receives the American Association for Men in Nursing’s (AAMN) Inclusion & Diversity Excellence Award. This year, for the first time in the group’s 50 year history, the award…
SingFit helps spread benefits of crooning to seniors
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Foster Stubbs
Nov 21, 2022
Andy Tubman, his sister Rachel Francine and the team at SingFit are working to put the opera prompter in a musical smartphone application for home care professionals and assisted living communities.
Champion of family caregivers stresses need for support
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Foster Stubbs
Nov 14, 2022
When it comes to end-of-life care, Debra Parker Oliver, PhD, knows a thing or two. She not only analyzes the field as a professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, but she also…
A call to service: Veteran finds new path in home care
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Foster Stubbs
Nov 07, 2022
After serving in the Army, Felix Gbee’s new mission was finding a senior care organization to run. He found it in SYNERGY HomeCare.
‘A Grammy for caregiving’: VNS Health supports singer at key moment
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Foster Stubbs
Oct 31, 2022
If Falu Shah hadn’t been able to find home care for her elderly mother, she never would have been able to claim her Grammy award earlier this year.
HCAOA Caregiver of the Year finds her calling
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Foster Stubbs
Oct 24, 2022
Katrice Turner was not intent on following her mother’s footsteps into home care. But after being let go from a clerical administration job in 2009, she took some temporary work as a caregiver with the…
New look: Fashion show raises hospice awareness
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Foster Stubbs
Oct 17, 2022
Hospice strutted its stuff recently with “Glow: More Than a Runway,” a fashion show to raise awareness about World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on Oct. 8.
MIT’s long-term care fellows aim high
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Liza Berger
Oct 03, 2022
Overhauling the long-term care system so that it is more equitable for workers and improves access to quality care may seem like a pipe dream, given the scale of the task. But that is precisely the goal…
Home care providers cater to centenarians
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Liza Berger
Sep 26, 2022
The longevity of Queen Elizabeth, who died at 96, was remarkable. But nonagenarians and centenarians increasingly are becoming more common in the United States — and home care.
