Aveanna Healthcare Launches Homecare Homebase and Medalogix Platforms
Aveanna Healthcare implements the Homecare Homebase and Medalogix platforms across the company’s home health and hospice divisions.
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BraunAbility and SAWs Partner to Build 50 Free Ramps in 50 Days
BraunAbility recognizes its 50th anniversary by teaming with Servants at Work to build 50 ramps in 50 days where its employees live and work.
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More Adults Are Falling Every Year, Despite Prevention Efforts
Despite prevention efforts, falls increase by about 1.5% annually, with wide variations in incidence based on geography, a study suggests.
autonoME Assistive Technology Enhanced with Therapeutic Games
Accessibility Services Inc, a developer of assistive technology, has taken its signature autonoME software to the next level by making popular app-based games accessible to all.
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SOREL Footwear Launches New Adaptive Styles
SOREL Footwear announces the launch of three signature styles for Zappos Adaptive, Zappos.com’s curated shopping experience offering functional and fashionable products, designed to make life easier for everyone.
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Reviewed Launches Accessibility Category to Expand Representation for Consumers with Disabilities
Reviewed, a consumer product review website, has launched a dedicated Accessibility category, it announces.
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Triple W to Provide Ecumen with Bladder Sensor Technology
Triple W announces the delivery of the next generation DFree wireless bladder sensor for urinary incontinence to Ecumen, a Minnesota-based non-profit provider, developer, and operator of living spaces and innovative technology and services for older adults.
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Urban vs Rural In-Home Care Quality: Who Wins?
The quality of home health care varies by location, with rural home health care agencies initiating care more quickly while urban agencies excel in preventing hospitalizations, according to a new study.
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Say Hello to the New Labrador Retriever Personal Robot
Labrador Systems Inc introduces the Labrador Retriever, a new type of personal robot that empowers individuals to live more independently by providing practical, physical assistance with everyday activities in the home.
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Five Star Senior Living Partners with DispatchHealth to Offer Unique In-Home Acute Care Services
Five Star Senior Living Inc announces a collaboration with DispatchHealth to provide on-demand acute care to independent living, assisted living and memory care residents in Five Star communities.
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Modernize Home Services Survey Spotlights ‘Aging in Place’ Demand in 2022
According to a recent survey from Modernize Home Services, 78% of homeowners plan to remodel a bathroom during aging-in-place improvements.
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Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare Introduces New Lightweight Bariatric Homecare Beds
Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare introduces Lightweight Bariatric Beds to its lineup of homecare beds.
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Visiting Older Relatives for the Holidays? Here’s How to ‘Fallproof’ Their Home
The holidays bring chances to spot and fix household hazards that could raise an older person’s risk of suffering a fall, as well as an opportunity to shop for holiday gifts of practical items that can prevent falls.
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Lowe’s Debuts One-Stop Livable Home for Aging-In-Place Solutions
Lowe’s announces a multi-year commitment to become the leading retail destination for aging-in-place and life-change solutions through its launch of Lowe’s Livable Home.
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MoveAgain Brain-Computer Interface System Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation
The MoveAgain Brain Computer Interface (BCI) System from Blackrock Neurotech has received Breakthrough Device designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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New TD Pilot Empowers People with Disabilities to Control an iPad with Their Eyes
Tobii Dynavox unveils TD Pilot, a medically certified communication device for people with disabilities.
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Making a Home Usable
Successful home modification incorporates client input to create spaces that go beyond mere accessibility, Joan Augustyn, OTD, OTR/L, writes, in the November/December 2021 issue of Rehab Management.
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Final Rule for Home Health Care Shifts from Volume-Based to Quality-Based
CMS’s new final rule for home health services accelerates the shift from volume-based incentives to quality-based incentives and advances coordination of care through Quality Reporting Programs.
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