Thrive in Place Blog

Accessing Telehealth on Smart TVs
Survey Reveals 90% of Americans Used Telehealth in The Past Year
Data Shows Widespread Adoption of Telehealth and Preference of Smart TVs LOS ANGELES, Calif. – January 10, 2023 – Independa, an award-winning TV-based platform providing remote engagement, education and care, today announced the results of their latest commissioned...

SurvivorNet Announces SurvivorNetTV’s New Partnership With Independa Ramping Distribution Across Millions of LG Smart TVs
NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SurvivorNet has announced a partnership with Independa to bring SurvivorNetTV Programming to all 2021, 2022, and new LG Smart TVs via the Independa Health Hub®. As the recognized leader in remote engagement, education and care,...

How to Fund Aging in Place?
According to Tom Beauregard, founder of insurance company HCG Secure, most people believe that home care will be covered by their employee insurance or Medicare – which isn’t totally true. Some 70% of people want to age at home, yet only 10% have long-term care...

How Can You Improve Recruitment?
The pandemic forced healthcare companies to develop a bigger brand presence on social media platforms to engage with potential candidates. As a result, they found the advantages of online recruitment: Reaching a wider and more targeted audience. Reducing time to hire....

Homecare Industry After the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic changed business models, operations, and patient relations. It undeniably opened the door for the homecare industry to adopt new engagement practices to revolutionize home healthcare: sustained social engagement, personalized and comprehensive...

Help Needed on the Frontlines
The workforce crisis in the elder care industry pleads for help as workers refuse to sacrifice so much for so little. For caregivers, the job is daunting – both physically and emotionally – and with a wage that does not reflect the value of the job, it is...

Wellness Has A ROI: Senior housing communities are attracting growing interest from investors due to their solid demographic tailwinds
Despite the economy, inflation, increasing interest rates, staff shortages, and tight labor market conditions pressuring wage rate increases, companies operating senior housing communities are attracting growing interest from investors due to their solid demographic...

Engagement Strategies: Utilize the time and talents of elderly people and allow them to find meaning and purpose
Hope Meadows is an intentional, intergenerational neighborhood — the first of its kind — and the model and inspiration for many others like it around the country. Initially designed to build a community where young adults adopting children from foster care and seniors...

Workforce Crisis: The alarming shortage of home-care workers that deepened during the COVID-19 pandemic has no quick fix
The alarming shortage of home-care workers that deepened during the COVID-19 pandemic has no quick fix and will most likely get worse as the baby-boom generation finishes aging into retirement. Stories about desperate family members and case managers trying to...