SPOTLIGHT: THE HEART OF SENIOR LIVING
safe. We want to show our support and gratitude by helping to feed those seniors housing heroes,” said Zach Rigby, Director, JLL Capital Markets. In addition, JLL worked with Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help stand up an alternate medical facility in Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center. JLL hired local minority- and women-owned businesses to provide facility maintenance, security, clean- ing, waste removal, and more for the critical patient overflow site.
Seniors helping seniors Seniors themselves are some of the most enthusiastic volunteers and the first to help out others. That was the story behind dona- tions to food donations to affordable senior living communities in Northern California. A unique partnership with Sequoia Liv-
ing, Senior Services for Northern California, and Morrison Living helps 550 low-income seniors in San Francisco and San Jose get a free box of healthy groceries each week, for as long as the shelter-in-place order lasts. The Morrison Living team procured the
groceries; and two of Sequoia Living’s con- tinuing care retirement communities, The Sequoias San Francisco and The Sequoi- as Portola Valley, volunteered to pack the groceries into boxes; and Sequoia Living’s affordable housing employees distributed the groceries to their residents. Voluntary donations from Sequoia Living
residents, families, vendors, board members, and staff and donations of labor from Mor- rison Living made it work. “When the shelter-in-place order first came through, I had been to the grocery store that day and knew how difficult it was for me,” said Shawn Leary, regional vice president of Morrison Living. “After a group of us at Morrison decided
we wanted to help bring food to vulnerable seniors, I reached out to Sequoia Living. They were thrilled with the idea, and we all worked together to make it happen.” “It is inspiring to see our residents, staff
members, and vendors supporting one another in such an innovative and creative way during these difficult times,” said Sara McVey, president and CEO of Sequoia Living.
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iN2L has delivered tablets adapted for quick and easy video chats to 150 communities.
Making vital connections With the restrictions of visiting brought by the pandemic, technology wasn’t optional— it was critical. Residents and their families and loved ones needed not only to talk but to see each other. And despite the creativity and efforts of activities leaders, days in isolation could feel very long. Many senior living tech companies came
to the rescue, donating free use of platforms and devices to ensure residents could stay in touch and stay engaged through the cri- sis. Their online travel and museum tours, learning, conversations, and games have made an ongoing positive contribution to health and well-being. Among them was iN2L, which quickly adapted its tablet technology to include a “quick-start” video chat tool. “To solve this challenge for our senior living customers as quickly as possible, we partnered with an existing video chat provider for the core ca- pability and integrated it seamlessly into the iN2L solution, to make the user experience as easy and as senior-friendly as possible,” says Lisa Taylor, CEO. With one tap, users can talk to up to seven
people simultaneously in a video chat session. The Alzheimer’s Association had been
working with the state of Florida to get a simpler video chat solution appropriate to people with dementia and chose iN2L as its
partner. The initiative has delivered tablets to 150 senior living communities in the state. “Both the Alzheimer’s Association and
the State of Florida’s Department of Elder Affairs have been terrific to work with and have moved so quickly. Within three weeks, we were on board and moving quickly to deliver the first round of tablets to Florida communities,” says Taylor. Other tech companies are offering free
use of software or information access for providers to help them during this time. Arena and OnShift have partnered with Argentum for FastMatch, a Senior Living Works program that helps match displaced workers with jobs in senior living; as part of this, Arena is offering no-cost access to its software through September 30. Another such free use for the duration is
offered by Medtelligent, which provides the ALIS software for a private social sharing feed, tracking of health profile information, and bill payment. “We’ve seen an uptick in demand for ALIS Connect among our existing custom- ers as communities work to keep families up-to-date about what’s going on ‘in the building’,” said John Shafaee, CEO. “At the same time, staff is burdened by
new routines and processes. If that saves a few minutes or hours of a nurse or commu- nity engagement manager’s time, we think that’s a meaningful contribution.”
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