The LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) updated its Functional Assessment and Activity Monitoring toolkit, adding six new products to the online selection tool and product matrix, a new case study and a new interactive guide to help providers better understand and select such technologies.

 

Functional assessment technologies help capture and analyze a person’s general behavior and capabilities to interact with the world, making it easier to detect decline-which is usually gradual and subtle-to determine older adult’s changing needs and also to reduce rehospitalizations.
The updates include:

• A whitepaper with a new interactive online guide that helps you understand issues surrounding functional assessment and activity monitoring technology, and outlines commercial technology solutions, their uses and benefits, and the most important functionalities, features and planning steps care providers need to consider.
• An enhanced Product Selection Matrix and Online Selection Tool that compares 20 different products from 19 vendors, with six new products added. The product selection matrix is published in Excel format to allow you to sort and delete products, and perform side-by-side functionality comparisons of only products of interest.
• A new case study that provides a real-life example of how The New Jewish Home improved efficiency and reduced their rate of rehospitalization from 11 percent to five percent through functional assessment and rehabilitation technology.