Caught in nowheresville -- neither nursing home, ALF or safe home care. Today we are in a no-man's land of legislative initiatives to keep (or move) seniors at home and out of a shrinking number of nursing homes -- between the CLASS Act, CMS program experiments, PACE program here and Medicaid payment (see Leading Age/CAST report about which states reimburse PERS et al.) -- the only really clarity is that government agencies believe that the costs of care are lower at home. On the other hand, we are at an amazingly under-deployed stage of the use of technology in delivering home care services (if you have any statistics that prove otherwise, please come forth!) So on the one hand, we chip away at the viability of nursing homes (1000 have closed within the past 10 years), we don't chip away at the cost of assisted living, however, which is financially out of reach when there is no pricey home to sell. Yet 24x7 home care is priced by MetLife at a US-wide average of $183K/year (in comparison to a US-wide average of $40K/year for Assisted Living). So what are families to do?
SALT LAKE CITY, April 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ActiveCare, Inc. (ACAR.OB) a leader in senior care technology, today announced the introduction of its' ActiveHome™ Monitoring System which has been two years in the making. This technology combined with ActiveCare's mobile care service that assists seniors 24/7 no matter where they may be, allows seniors to live an independent yet safe lifestyle with their medical and everyday needs being met 24/7.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., March 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, the nation's largest not-for-profit provider of rehabilitation/skilled care and senior services, is joining WellAWARE Systems, Philips Lifeline and Honeywell HomMed in offering a suite of technologies designed to help seniors live more independently and remain longer in the places they choose to call home.
BETHESDA, MD. and AUSTIN, TX 3/1/2011 – SeniorChecked is pleased to announce the addition of AtGuardianAngel of Austin, TX to the SeniorChecked Trusted Local Business Network. SeniorChecked is a national network that connects Seniors, their families and caregivers with trusted local service providers. To be part of the SeniorChecked network, businesses must pass the most comprehensive set of background checks in the industry including more than two dozen local, state and national screenings.
