Smart Senior Living Solutions partnership between LG and Thrive

LG, the global developer of high-definition TVs, cell phones and other electronics, has teamed up with Thrive to develop Smart Senior Living Solutions, a suite of technologies that integrates an assisted living resident’s health information into a single platform. The platform allows staff to access residents’ health metrics recorded from various devices in the community, such as electronic health records (EHR), nurse call and medication management devices.

Community fixtures such as lighting and camera systems, and even heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) can also be recorded which can be helpful in looking at factors that might have led to a resident episode.  Smart walkers and wheelchairs currently under development by LG that will be able to record if a resident is moving 10% less each week and relay that information back to community staff.

LG’s technologies are not specific to just the assisted living industry only. LG CNS is also working with home health, hospice and nursing home providers to develop similar EHR core-based systems.

LG plans to release its technologies for long-term care providers to purchase next year, with providers interested in implementing these technologies able to purchase the various components as they would from any other vendor.

I can appreciate that Smart home technology combined with health monitoring would allow more family caregivers the ability to provide passive monitoring to a remote family member.