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HomeCare Magazine highlights grandCARE as an aging in place solution

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GrandCare Systems was recently featured in HomeCare Magazine in an article by Graham Miller about aging in place. Technology is transforming the way both aging populations and health care professionals view and manage health care, with the reality being that the best way to keep people out of hospitals and long-term care is through prevention. Digital health tools, such as the grandCARE system, can be the key to greater prevention and managing long-term health needs for seniors.

In the article, Graham Miller writes:

“Every day, tens of thousands of Americans are turning 65, and three factors—longer life spans, rising health care costs and aging baby boomers—are driving the growth of this demographic. An overwhelming percentage of these aging adults desires to stay at home, maintaining an active, independent lifestyle for as long (and as safely) as possible.”

“The Affordable Care Act has changed how both consumers and companies view health care,” says Dan Maynard, president and CEO of GrandCare Systems. “The cost of health care continues to rise, especially for the aging populations that require more frequent and longer-term health care monitoring.” A large part of the new legislation focuses on hospital readmission reductions and consequences for reactive versus proactive care, he says, and there are significant financial incentives for hospitals to actively work with Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) to reduce costs associated with patient readmissions. Products like grandCARE incorporate resident information and support, captured resident data and professional caregiving tools, encouraging everyone in the caregiving support network to work together to achieve true patient-centered care. “A path of a patient/provider partnership results in better outcomes for both the patients and the caregivers because it creates greater efficiency for the caregiver staff by allowing virtual care, which results in fewer at-home visits,” says Maynard.

Our product is designed to reduce health care costs and improve outcomes by enabling family members, caregivers and health care professionals to remotely care for an individual living at home. The system uses a large touch screen in the residence, which provides the individual with social communications, health care monitoring, visual daily reminders and medication prompts. The easy-to-use interface means that no computer skills are needed for the resident to engage in all of the touch screen features. The system also supports virtual video visits, telehealth device recording (which takes vitals such as wireless blood pressure readings, weight, pulse oximerty, glucose and thermometer readings) and remote in-home activity sensing.

We recently incorporated a new professional caregiver and user task management feature into the system, which allows the resident and caregiver to follow a daily schedule of tasks (such as medication administration, caregiver education, scheduled appointments, etc.).

Caregiver showing grandCARE user new task list feature on the resident's touchscreen.

Caregiver showing grandCARE user new task list feature on resident’s touchscreen.

“This new feature enhances the resident engagement aspect by giving the resident a daily to-do list and establishes complete transparency for professional caregiving organizations by providing a task list that is required to be completed during home visits,” says Maynard.

– See more at: http://www.homecaremag.com/aging-place/mar-2015/smart-home-solutions-aging-population#sthash.Hxk28Xpy.dpuf

Digital health is growing rapidly

While there are a number of growing markets in digital health, there are two that seem to be picking up speed with consumers and care providers: aging and wearables. With this growth comes more investor dollars and more companies wanting in.

As one of the most valuable market segments, boomers account for nearly $230 billion in sales for consumer goods and will control 70% of the nation’s disposable income in the next twenty years.   And with the wearables market projected to cross $8 billion by 2018, companies are taking notice.

Gain invaluable insight into the digital health market when a silicon valley VC leads an enlightening discussion with the consumer electronics industry’s authority on market research and the chief marketing officer of the leading caregiving technology company.

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Moderator:

Anne DeGheest, Founder & Managing Director, Healthtech Capital

Speakers:

Laura Mitchell, Chief Marketing Officer, GrandCare Systems
Kevin Tillmann, Senior Research Analyst, CEA

Tune into this 25 minute segment

System Comp 2This panel took place at the 2014 Digital Health Summer Summit. The team from GrandCare was there, showcasing the latest and greatest GrandCare System, designed for patient socialization and engagement, enhancing the patient experience, while enabling professional caregivers to turn their “man on man” caregivers into “zone caregivers”, providing better, more efficient, more cost-effective care.  Watch GrandCare’s chief medical officer, Laura Mitchell as she describes the shift in market traction and why our solutions should focus on the outcomes and not on the process.

The system is a vehicle behind a successful care delivery model, while putting the patient firmly in the center and emphasizing continuity and seamless transition throughout the whole care network (family, professional caregivers, healthcare providers, patient) and encouraging patient self care (chronic disease management), socialization with family and friends and virtual professional caregiving through HIPAA compliant video chat, medication prompting and check-in video visits.

GrandCare can better care delivery outcomes for:

– Professional In-home Care providers

– CCRCs without walls (Long Term Care Providers)

– HealthCare Providers (Hospital to Home Transitions)

– Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

– Hospice/End of Life Care

 

To learn more about GrandCare Systems please visit: www.grandcare.com

To watch a short testimonial video click here.

 


   

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Join us where America’s leading analysts, executive marketers, business leaders, and research experts will gather to introduce new research, products and services that truly represent what is next on the horizon for businesses selling to baby boomer and senior customers today.

Featured Agenda Tracks:

– The Innovation of Frugality

– Integrated Media and Marketing: Social, Mobile, Gaming

– The New Service Economy: Housing, Caregiving, Mobility and Healthcare

– Entrepreneurship! Encore Careers and Personalized Business Models

View the complete agenda here.

Featured Agenda Tracks:

Quyen Le

Gene Zaino

Missy Sullivan

Deborah L. Jacobs

Quyen Le
Senior Technical Sales Productivity Specialist,
Salesforce.com

Gene Zaino
CEO & President,
MBO Partners

Missy Sullivan
Senior Editor,
SmartMoney
The Wall Street Journal

Deborah L. Jacobs
Author & Journalist
Forbes

Hanna Gryncwajg

Lynn Mento

Jason Rozenblat

Winter Casey

Hanna Gryncwajg
Senior Vice President,
Advertising Sales,
RLTV

Lynn Mento
Director,
Membership,
AARP

Jason Rozenblat
General Manager – DC,
Living Social

Winter Casey
Global Public Policy,
Google

Check out the complete agenda, speakers and more at BoomerSummit.com
Click here to find-out who attends year after year, and why.

Platnum Sponsors:

AARP, Crew Media, United Healthcare

Gold Sponsors:

Microsoft, Caring.com, Linkage, RLTV, Silverado Senior Living, MBO Partners

Silver Sponsors: 

General Mills, GreatCall, The Hartford, SilverRide, Starkey, GrandCare Systems, Facetime Strategy, Google, InnovateLTC, Independa, AAA, Virtual Health

Bronze Sponsors:

VibrantNation.com, Hipcricket, PositScience, MetLife Mature Market Institute, ADEPT Driver, CareLinx, Inc., ABHOW

The What’s Next Boomer Business Summit is affiliated with the
American Society on Aging (ASA) Aging in America Conference that takes place on March 28 – April 1, 2012.

Home Health Tech Launches Specialty Health Store

First of its kind, new website offers digital solutions for independently living.

Submitted to HomeToys.com on: 02/24/2012, 7:59 am

Home Health Tech by Home Controls has launched a fully-functional retail web store specializing in products that help the growing senior population live independently. The online store is at www.HomeHealthTechStore.com, and orders can also be placed by calling 888-220-7690.

Home Health Tech by Home Controls is the first store of its kind to provide high-tech products targeting the senior market, promoting the philosophy that a bit of technology can provide a safer and healthier environment. The products available at Home Health Tech are ideal for people living independently, their families, caregivers, health partners and care facilities.

“Home Health Tech by Home Controls is now a one-stop shop for a wide variety of simple digital products for our aging Boomer generation,” says Ken Kerr, President of Home Controls, Inc. “There is a great demand for these digital products to help seniors stay in their homes longer and live better and safer lives while doing so.”

Home Health Tech by Home Controls has partnered with some of the nation’s leading manufacturer’s to provide a comprehensive assortment of home health tech systems, covering digital health systems, safety and security, personal health, communication, cognition and more.

Featured product lines include caregiver assistance systems from GrandCare, amplified telephones from ClearSounds and Amplicom, personal emergency response systems (PERS) from Linear and LogicMark, personal health products from A&D Medical, medication management tools from MedFolio, MedReady and MedMinder, cognition tools from Dakim, and communication systems from Presto. Home Health Tech also offers remote controlled doors and windows, automatic lighting, sensor pads, wanderer alerts, flood and fire prevention systems, and much more.

“These products are state-of-the-art and very simple to use, helping those seniors who want to age in their own homes and helping their family and caregivers, too,” Kerr says.

In addition, Home Health Tech by Home Controls offers several programs for integrators and health professionals working in the independent living or aging in place markets. These programs offer special wholesale pricing, extended technical support, customized marketing support, system training, networking and more.

“Many integrators are looking to get into the rapidly growing home health tech market, but don’t know where to go for advice and products to fill the demand,” Kerr says. “Now integrators have a one-stop shop for information, marketing materials, and a wide variety of products aimed at the aging-in-place market.”

New Tech, Old Problems At Silvers Summit 2012

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Posted on 01/13/2012 by // AARP Blog Author

We know that baby boomers are a big group of people. We know that in a 3-month period over this last year, baby boomers spent an average of $367 online every month, more than double the amount of those ages 18 to 22 spend online. We know that the dollars spent on caregiving every year can easily beat the number of dollars spent on the average wedding. So, if there’s this market of moms and dads and grandparents and caregivers putting their hearts and wallets into these statistics, where’s the venture capitalists? Where are the tech blog journalists with their miniature cameras?

You might be surprised.

The Silvers Summit, held during the mother-of-all-tradeshows, the Consumer Electronics Show, has run for the past 8 years. In 2012, it doubled in size. It exhibited a wide variety of products, hosted 39 speakers talking about everything from gaming to customer service, and awarded an inaugural Sterling Award to five companies in five categories. It had a hashtag. Over just one day, 117,430 people on Twitter.com saw coverage of its exhibitors and quotes from its speakers.

You might have expected to see ClearSounds here – my father, at 59, is dependent on products like theirs after early hearing loss – but you might not have expected to see Sterling Award winner LiveMocha, a “language learning community.” I’ve always wanted to visit Istanbul; given the time, I could join LiveMocha and not only take language lessons, but connect with others doing the same thing. Maybe I’d end up meeting a great travel partner; maybe I’d just get to practice my new Turkish with someone across the country I’ll never meet.

Much like the Nintendo Wii’s crossover appeal to older adults, Sterling Award winner AutoVerbal – aimed at helping kids with autism communicate with the help of pictures – has an obvious appeal for anyone struggling with muscle memory and vision. For caregivers, Sterling Award winner GrandCare’s all-in-one-sytem is invaluable – it’ll remind you to take your pills, could alert your caregiver that your blood pressure is out of whack, or – simplest of all – makes it easy for you to send your granddaughter a Facebook message. Made-for-seniors computing system MyGait, a Sterling Award winner in the “Entertainment” category, simplifies all that clicking into an easy-to-use PC system – and for our money, the best part is the keyboard. (It’s the simple things.) Check it out – big keys, bright colors!

Sometimes, great products for the aging are just well-designed versions of things we’ve known all our lives. In the “cause-worthy”

http://blog.aarp.org/2012/01/13/new-tech-old-problems-at-silvers-summit-2012/

10/20/11 Webinar “A New Approach to Customer Service: Boomers Serving Boomers”

Thursday, October 20th 2011

Bi-Weelky Aging & Technology Webinar

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Our Topic: “A New Approach to Customer Service: Boomers Serving Boomers”

Hiring and managing Baby-Boomers requires employers to implement some new management styles and HR policies to be effective.

This webinar will focus on:

  • The value of hiring Boomers and older adults within your organization
  • What management styles need to change to be effective
  • The pros/cons of hiring and managing an older workforce (Boomers and Seniors specifically)

Our Speaker: Steve Shefveland, Founder and CEO, Tree Rings

Steve Shefveland is a 20-year sales and marketing veteran, who is founder and CEO of Ashesi Global Services, Inc. and Tree Rings, LLC, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.  Tree Rings was founded in 2009 and employs “boomers” and senior adults in its call centers near retirement communities to provide customer care, sales and technical support services for companies selling to the aging adult population.  Mr. Shefveland attributes Tree Rings’ success to his direct investment in senior adults, whose experience and skills are highly valued for achieving the company’s vision of serving others.

Our Sponsor: Tree Rings

Tree Rings, LLC. was founded with the single goal of hiring “baby boomers,” seniors and retirees who want to work part-time or full-time providing telephone support and other support services for companies who sell-to and service retirees and senior market consumers.

In other words … Boomers serving Boomers!

Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Tree Rings is building state-of-the art, IP-enabled Micro-Call Centers adjacent to large retirement communities across the USA, beginning in Scottsdale, Arizona and West Phoenix, including Sun City.  Our call centers in Scottsdale and Sun City draw upon a senior market demographic of 200,000 who are highly educated, outgoing, and hard working.