Automating senior care provider-to-family communication
Connect 4 Healthcare, LLC. announced today that the v.1 integration of their Connect for Healthcare™ family communication platform with Resource Systems’ CareTracker software is complete and available to hosted CareTracker clients.
The integration of the two services enables Resource Systems’ CareTracker clients to automatically populate ADL-related family-update metrics in the Connect for Healthcare™ service using data they’ve already entered into CareTracker.
People who are better at simple physical acts such as gripping, walking, rising from a chair and balancing on one leg are more likely to live longer, according to a new study published online in the British Medical Journal.
So baby boomers and seniors AREN'T buying the iPad right now. You probably thought this post was about centenarians. which it is, but first, to clear up a bit of confusion, even though the iPad might be a zero-learning-curve tool for seniors, even though the iPad is winning over an unspecified number of elderly in Japan, let's be clear on the iPad buyer in the US. According to Nielsen Wire, only 15% of the iPad buyers are over the age of 56. So let's not get too excited about it right now as an aging-in-THIS place technology. I plan to stop writing about it for at least a few weeks.