To Address Crucial Occupancy Issues, Nursing Home Facilities Must Remain Safe, Empathetic, and Innovative

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the elderly, killing one in every 100 older Americans as the US death toll surpasses 800,000. As a result, nursing home facilities are especially vulnerable to severe virus transmission — namely nursing homes, which have experienced drops in facility occupancy due to the pandemic.  Now, as infection rates rebound [...]

By |2022-06-13T15:20:18+00:00June 13th, 2022|Blog|

Hospice Care vs. Palliative Care: Understanding Their Key Differences

Despite its benefits, many people are entirely unaware of palliative care. More than 70 percent of U.S. adults who took part in the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) in 2018 reported no knowledge of such care. Of those who claimed some knowledge, 38 percent mistakenly equated it to hospice care and 44.4 percent said [...]

By |2021-11-10T18:45:22+00:00November 10th, 2021|Blog|

Transformations in Veterinary Care Mirror Healthcare Specializations for Humans

Historically, most pet owners viewed the veterinarian’s office as a one-stop shop. Unlike human patients, who might see one specialist for their irregular heartbeat and another for their itching eyes, veterinary general practitioners were expected to handle the majority of pet health concerns in-house. Referrals were rare; visits to specialists were even fewer. Today, our [...]

By |2020-06-16T15:48:18+00:00January 22nd, 2019|Blog|

Technology’s Role in Enhancing Senior Living Communities

When tech enthusiasts talk about senior care solutions, they tend to focus on the home. The lion's share of today's conversation centers on what communication apps and wearable technology can do to improve the experience of seniors who have decided to age in place. This focus is undoubtedly essential, given that 61% of seniors intend [...]

By |2018-12-10T15:42:42+00:00December 10th, 2018|Blog|

Giving Price Transparency to Physicians, Not Patients, Is the Answer to Our Rising Healthcare Costs

A sense of resignation pervades the conversations about cost in the American healthcare sector. Cursory visits to a specialist's practice or a quick check-in at a local urgent care center can leave patients with a bill that counts into the hundreds or thousands — and yet, the vast majority of patients and providers grimly accept [...]

By |2021-09-23T18:39:56+00:00August 28th, 2018|Blog|

Physician Experience and Investment Decisions

Successful investments may hinge on the search for areas of medicine where demand outstrips supply. Typically, deliberation over investment decisions takes place in conversations annotated with market research, disease prevalence statistics,  population numbers, and comparable transaction analysis. The conversation has a clear-cut quality to it, and the sheer weight of research in an investment memo [...]

By |2018-12-10T15:34:59+00:00July 27th, 2018|Blog|

How New Healthcare Models Are Revolutionizing Elder Care

By 2029, one in every five Americans will be over the age of sixty-five. Baby boomers are retiring in ever-greater waves, making it ever-more vital to find new and innovative models of care to support the increasing number of retirees through their golden years. The old mainstays of elder care — retirement homes, assisted-living communities, [...]

By |2020-06-16T15:45:41+00:00July 10th, 2018|Blog|