HomeHero Founder Launches Telehealth Company HomeHero, the venture-backed home care startup that shocked the industry by announcing it was closing earlier this year, is rebranding as an integrative medicine telehealth company called “Harvey.” The new company will offer virtual consultations with functional and naturopathic doctors, in-home lab testing and “natural treatments” to help patients with chronic health conditions, wrote CEO […]
New technology and techniques could change the face of the caregiving industry in the years to come, but not every innovation will be bionic. From utilizing futuristic tech to relieve caregiver shortages to redefining death itself, here are a few ideas on what the future might hold for aging, according to a Forbes article from Next Avenue, […]
Seniors with Alzheimer’s disease are dying in their homes more than they were nearly two decades ago. That’s according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on deaths from Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s, a fatal form of dementia, is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, making up 3.6% of all […]
Kinnser Software Merges with Mediware Kinnser Software, an Austin, Texas-based software technology company in the post-acute care space, is merging with Mediware, a company that offers software solutions for home health and hospice providers. Mediware, which is headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas, is purchasing Kinnser from Insight Venture Partners, according to a press release. The transaction is expected to close […]
The key to solving the home health care labor shortage could lie in better training. That’s the gist of a grassroots training program dubbed the Care Connections Project (CCP) from New York City-based nonprofit Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI), an organization centered on improving the lives of workers who provide home or residential care. The program, which began […]
Jill Taylor, Tim Taylor’s affable wife from the ABC sitcom “Home Improvement,” would make a great home health worker. That’s according to a new survey from Senior Helpers, one of the nation’s largest home care franchises, with 298 locations across the U.S. and over a dozen more abroad. The survey tracked responses from 1,000 adult children between the ages […]
A bill working its way through the Senate could expand in-home care, including by make it easier for seniors with chronic illnesses to access telehealth. Members of the Senate Finance Committee on May 18 voted to advance the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017 (S. 870). Among other things, the […]
Home care franchise company Senior Helpers is opening its first corporate-owned location, with plans to possibly acquire more in-house operations in the future. Senior Helpers, one of the nation’s largest home care franchises with 298 locations across the world, acquired a facility from an individual franchisee in Baltimore, near its Timonium, Maryland-based headquarters where it originally began its […]
Fewer home health care clinicians are proficient in OASIS (Outcome and Assessment Information Set) data compared to a year ago, according to recent test results from Fazzi Associates, a Northampton, Massachusetts-based home care and hospice consulting, training, outsourcing, benchmarking and research firm. More than 5,000 clinicians from 366 agencies in 40 states took this year’s test, the National Oasis Testing Project, […]
Staying healthy is a vital part of being able to age-in-place, and residents of Minnesota, Utah, and Hawaii appear to have a leg up on other seniors across the country. That’s because these are the three healthiest three states in the union for older adults, according to the 2017 America’s Health Rankings Senior Report from […]
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