Jun 7, 2023
When Jack York first started bringing computers into senior living communities in the 1990s, he never could have imagined the ways elders use technology to stay connected with loved ones and their interests today – particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But even back then, when PCs took up entire desks...
May 31, 2023
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of aging in place – already the overwhelming preference for most people – received more media and political attention than ever before.
But Ryan Frederick believes that the phrase, while well-meaning, is too passive and restrictive, implying that aging is something...
May 24, 2023
The traditional nursing home took its design and operational cues from hospitals – a setting defined by its focus on physical health over all other considerations.
Since the late 1970s, Planetree International has worked to infuse humanity back into hospitals and, increasingly, health care settings of all kinds. In...
May 17, 2023
Last year, the groundbreaking NASEM report on nursing home quality laid out a host of recommendations for improving the broken long-term care system in the U.S. While none of those suggestions is necessarily more important than the others, the topic of improving the LTC workforce is probably the one garnering the most...
May 10, 2023
Eldercare – and U.S. health care writ large – too often is a cold, impersonal experience for the people both giving and receiving care, as ever-increasing demands for efficiency and profit turn an intimate experience into boxes to check and line items on balance sheets.
Dr. Stephen Trzeciak, chief of medicine at...