PACE Programs Continue to Innovate
Massachusetts-based Element Care extends PACE day-care programs into the home. Author: David Raths Healthcare Innovation July 6th, 2021 The pandemic’s devastating impact on nursing home residents also put a spotlight on programs that care for patients with complex care needs in the community. Many of them have had to get creative and rely on technology […]
How COVID-19 Exposed the Faults in America’s Elder Care System. This Is Our Best Shot to Fix Them
BY ABIGAIL ABRAMS JUNE 15, 2021 7:00 AM EDT TIME Magazine For the American public, one of the first signs of the COVID-19 pandemic to come was a tragedy at a nursing home near Seattle. On Feb. 29, 2020, officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Washington State announced the U.S. […]
TeleHealth is Here to Stay
After a year of change, how will homecare adapt online? by Hannah Wolfson Home Care Magazine Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 In the earliest days of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic—in a news story published on March 16, 2020, to be exact—we reported that homecare companies were facing a new problem: denials of service. Patients and […]
At Home Care for the Elderly
To the Editor, New York Times: Re “Rethinking Nursing Home Care, Even With Vaccines” (news article, May 9): Families don’t have to decide between caring for aging parents at home with help from hired aides or sending them to live in nursing homes. Since the 1970s, Medicaid has paid for people 55 and over to […]
Lynn Healthcare Pratice Uses Telehealth to Connect Seniors
LYNN — After a year of relying almost completely on telehealth, the virtual health platform at Element Care PACE in Lynn has expanded to incorporate avatars, personal reminders and a variety of meeting options for elderly patients. At Element Care — a nonprofit healthcare organization serving seniors living at home — the telehealth options have evolved into […]
PACE Providers Shift Services Toward the Home Amid Nation’s Long-Term Care Overhaul
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a dire need to rethink how and where Americans age, most long-term care experts agree. Investing in small-home senior living and “nursing homes without walls” are among the several innovative ideas that have been floated over the past year. Alternatively, some aging services stakeholders have simply called for a sweeping […]
MA Explores the Advantages and Potential Challenges of The J&J Vaccine, WBUR
Massachusetts received 58,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine this week, the first shipment of what could be a substantial boost in vaccination efforts here and across the country. But it’s not clear how that boost will play out or when it will start. Gov. Charlie Baker says he’s not expecting any more […]
Beverly Harborlight House Staff, Members Get Vaccinated, Beverly Patch
Element Care helped deliver the second dose to the at-risk and low-income seniors on Thursday. BEVERLY, MA — Patricia Jackson admits she was nervous about getting a coronavirus vaccine shot when they first became available. It was only after talking to her doctor at Harborlight House that she decided it go for it. “She went […]
Focus on Lynn Seniors in New Vaccination Clinics, Lynn Daily Item
LYNN — A new round of vaccinations will be going out to Lynn seniors next week, in the Commonwealth’s drive to get elderly people protected against COVID-19. The new drive will be conducted by Element Care PACE, a Lynn-based elderly care organization that provides care to seniors who live independently, and will be focused on […]
Thousands of MA hospital staff expected to begin getting COVID-19 vaccinations
Staff and residents at senior care facilities may be only days behind By Deanna Pan and Robert Weisman Globe Staff,Updated December 11, 2020, 7:03 p.m. The Food and Drug Administration Friday night approved the first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States for emergency use, clearing the way for the first Massachusetts residents to receive inoculations […]