Category: Technology
Technology
PopularDoes Technology Really Improve the Lives of Seniors?
Is it possible they have figured out that technology or more technology will make them less happy rather than more happy?
Evolution and Artificial Intelligence
Here’s how it does it: AI can create its own computer programs, called bots, and it can create them very rapidly and in massive numbers.
Read MoreDoes AI Have a Moral Compass?
The short answer is “no,” but it can be trained to act ethically if the trainer has a wise sense of ethics.
Read MoreBrains and AI
In 1949, Edmund Callis Berkeley posed two questions that sound familiar today: 1. Can machines think? 2. What is a mechanical brain?
Read MoreSeeing Is Believing, With Artificial Intelligence
AI combined with creative engineering imagination promises to bring us products to make old age in the future what we wish we could provide today.
Read MoreThinking Bad
It’s time for senior living to define its own destiny and to find the resources and talented people that can make that potential a reality.
Read MoreHow Procare HR Is Preventing Frontline Burnout
The result is a daily scorecard that, instead of throwing around a lot of data, arranges it in a way that informs small, daily, incremental actions to take.
Read MoreDo You Compete With Your Customers?
Senior living will likely shrink unless it adopts the pace of advancing change that could be beneficial. It’s time to leapfrog into the digital age!
Read MoreAugmented Intelligence
Imagine how aging people can be assisted when big data combines instantly with computation to spare them distress. We can embrace that future!
Read MoreAI in Senior Living: a Panel of Pundits
The big question was this: What does AI mean to senior living? As you figure out your own AI adventure here are some recommendations …
Read MoreThis Length-of-Stay Stat Will Blow Your Mind
If they stay 91 days, the odds they’ll stay another year goes up 83%! John’s advice is to put an active program around those folks.
Read MoreHas Amazon Lost Its Way? Lessons for Senior Living
Are there lessons for senior living in the generational shift that is occurring at Amazon? What does it take to keep an organization fresh and thriving?
Read MoreHow an Independent Living Community Caught a Thief in His Tracks
“When a criminal gets into a community, it doesn’t matter how good your safety record has been. Suddenly, you’re in trouble.”
Read MoreWhy Don’t We Have This Already?!
This would allow us to challenge the growing dominance of aggregators like A Place for Mom; significantly diminish …
Read MoreEmbracing Nanny Cams
Imagine taking the bold step of putting a camera in every single resident’s room (with their permission of course).
Read MoreData Drama in Senior Living
By squaring up to our data demons, tidying our tech tactics, and crafting tales that track with our strategy, we’ll not just survive but thrive.
Read MoreCommunity Security and Peace of Mind: How The Arbor Company Keeps Residents Safer
Residents and families choose Arbor for peace of mind, and Accushield plays a crucial role in delivering that peace.
Read MorePaying for 3 Hours of Nothing: Stop the Madness!
CaringOnDemand challenged the old agency home-care model and won. Now you can win too.
Read MoreThe Ethics of Artificial Intelligence [AI Series, Part 4]
We shouldn’t reinvent ethics for AI, but we should perfect the ethics that have been handed down to us through the eons.
Read MorePracticalities of Artificial Intelligence [AI Series, Part 3]
The explosive arrival of artificial intelligence into public awareness has raised both fears and hopes. Here we consider whether the hopes are well-placed.
Read MoreThe Best HR Software — How to Choose
HR folks are stressed. So how about investing in software like an HRIS to make their lives easier? Brett Landrum has tips to help you.
Read MoreSenior Living’s Great Leap Forward [AI Series, Part 2]
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a chance for the industry to leapfrog from defensiveness to a more positive image.
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence: It’s Not Magic [AI Series, Part 1]
Lately, it seems like the world is aflame with artificial intelligence fever. AI now is like the internet was then. But it’s only a tool — our tool.
Read MoreWhat If Senior Living Were Like AI?
In all of this, it strikes me that there is a massive difference between those in senior living and those in AI as they think about the future.
Read MoreWhat AI Can Tell You About a Resident’s Hospital Risk
AI can empower the caregiver to proactively care for the resident. That can make a huge difference in the quality of life for that resident.
Read MoreBeep Boop: Marketing, Life Enrichment, and the In-Betweens
We are living in the in-between. AI and robots are poised to change society. It reminds me of times your residents must have seen.
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