Later this week, I will be giving a keynote presentation to the Wisconsin Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. In addition to these two trends which I discussed a few weeks ago, another big trend I will be highlighting is the growing popularity of robotic pets. This six-minute video from Japan offers a glimpse into the future…..
Future Technology Blog | Jump The Curve | Long-Term Care’s Robotic Future
Annie Russell lives alone but not in solitude.
While she was laid up for almost nine months by an injured knee, neighbors checked in on her regularly. They brought her ice packs, fetched water and did her grocery shopping.
Twice a week year-round, everyone in Russell's community is assured dinner with friends in the large common house of Silver Sage Village in Boulder, Colo. It's a potluck of sorts. Residents can cook the meal together in a communal gourmet kitchen.
"If somebody just wants a place to live and doesn't want to commune with their neighbors, this is not for them," says Russell, 68.
Seniors at home in co-housing - USATODAY.com
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services set off a backlash from nursing home operators late Friday afternoon when it proposed “adjustments” that would cut Medicare payments by $1.05 billion in fiscal 2010. The 3.3% reduction will “largely” be offset by a 2.1% market basket increase, officials said.
Regulators stressed they would be simply closing a four-year window in which providers were paid far more than originally forecasted after a 2006 payment adjustment for certain therapy groupings. Providers, however, claimed the cut would be working against the spirit of the recently passed economic stimulus bill, endangering resident care and causing thousands of caregiver job losses.
Every BMJ article published since the journal's first issue in October 1840 is now freely available online from bmj.com. Eighteen of the BMJ Group's specialist journals - including Heart, Gut, and Thorax - are also available…..
For an introduction to the archive, a series of specially commissioned videos focussing on some of the important issues and individuals that have appeared in the journal's pages are now available at http://podcasts.bmj.com/themes/bmj/mp3/archive_videos/BMJ_archive_the_stories...
169 Years Of The British Medical Journal Now Free Online
