Telehealth robots added to innovative senior living provider’s growing tech roster

McKnight’s Senior Living November 6, 2023
Aaron Dorman

Cleaner, companion, security guard: You can add “clinician’s assistant” to the growing list of roles robots are playing in senior living and care settings.

A multi-state senior living operator has started a pilot program in which physicians remotely pilot a robot, Temi, equipped with medical tools, to provide geriatric consultations.

Maplewood Senior Living, which has become known for continually upgrading technology in its communities, began the pilot program by conducting its first virtual, robot-assisted appointment, the company announced Thursday.

The Temi robots are enabled with artificial intelligence and equipped with medical tools such as a stethoscope and blood pressure cuff. The clinician conducting the telehealth call can “drive” Temi into a resident room for an assessment; the mobile...

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