From SeniorHousingNews.com
Toshiba Eyes $10 Billion Opportunity with New Healthcare Tech
Joining the ranks of other multinational consumer electronics providers entering the senior care space, Toshiba is betting big on the sector, which it views as $10 billion opportunity. The Tokyo-based electronics conglomerate specializes in an array of technologies, from consumer-facing products like laptop computers and TVs to industrial power systems related to nuclear, hydroelectric and… Read More »
Senior Living Executive Salaries, Bonuses Drop in 2013
Despite an overall growth in senior living pay in 2013 from the previous year, industry executives saw their salaries and bonuses decrease, according to the eighth annual ALFA Senior Living Compensation Survey. The average base pay of employees included in the survey rose 2% in 2013 compared to 2012. For executive jobs, however, the average… Read More »
Top 5 Health Care Technologies at SXSW
South by Southwest, an annual week-long conference event held in Austin, Texas, each yeah showcases the latest in music, film and burgeoning startup companies from around the country. The event, which takes place from March 7-16, dedicates a considerable portion to innovative technologies under its SXSW Interactive Festival. The Interactive Festival plays home to Startup… Read More »
From USAToday.com
Retirement Living: Biggest retirement regrets
There are few things in life that let you do a do-over. Retirement is not one of them.
So, if retirees had an opportunity to do something differently to prepare for their golden years, which mistakes would they correct?
Financial advisers, asked about their clients’ biggest regrets, had a bunch…Read More »
What the Social Security COLA means to seniors
Despite a narrow brush with a new reduction to Social Security benefits, seniors will not see the proposed move to a more conservative cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, in 2014.
President Barack Obama’s announcement on Feb. 2 that he was scrapping the earlier proposal preserves the status quo for seniors — for now. The grand budget compromise it was supposed to prompt did not materialize…Read More »
Wall Street Journal Online
Proposed Medicare Part D Drug Changes Are Scrapped
Plan to Limit Types of Antidepressants and Other Medicines Faced a Backlash
The Obama administration said Monday that it would scrap much of a proposed plan to limit the types of antidepressants and other drugs that seniors can get through Medicare after a backlash from lawmakers and the health industry…Read More »
House Approves Changes to Doctors’ Medicare Payments
Bill Includes Bipartisan Deal to Raise Physician Payments by 0.5% Annually for Next Five Years
WASHINGTON—The House passed legislation on Friday to overhaul how physicians are paid for treating Medicare patients, in a largely partisan vote reflecting continued divisions over the 2010 health-care law…Read More »