Well●Spring Announces Relationship with Family Health Network

Greensboro , NC Well•Spring Retirement Community has contracted with Family Health Network to procure and deploy twenty-five pilots of Family Health Network’s tool, “Connected For Life”.
 
Nov. 18, 2010 - PRLog -- Within Well•Spring and the Greensboro community.  In doing this, Well•Spring is assisting with the development of technologies that improve the lives and health of senior adults and their connection to their families and caregivers.
“Connected For Life” is a state of the art approach that addresses the most frequently identified barriers to communication and technology use for senior adults. The product will allow senior adults to connect with family and friends through social networking and video calls by simply using a touch screen. “Connected For Life” will also give caregivers the ability to monitor the general health and well being of the senior adult with relevant data being captured and transferred to the appropriate locations. Well•Spring and Family Health Network will be joint marketing this new product at the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging Annual Meeting and Expo in Los Angeles, CA from October 31 to November 3, 2010.

Well•Spring Retirement Community, founded in 1986 by a multi-denominational group of nine local churches, is the area’s only not-for-profit, lifecare retirement community. In 2009 Well•Spring was awarded the Pathways to Greatness award by Larson Allen and the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA). Well•Spring is the first retirement community in the state of North Carolina and the only one in the Triad to receive both the North Carolina New Organizational Vision Award (NC NOVA) and accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities/Continuing Care Accreditation Commission (CARF/CCAC). Well•Spring is one of only six aging services providers in the state of North Carolina awarded the NC NOVA. The Continuing Care Accreditation Commission (CCAC) was founded in 1985 as the
Contact: Leslie Conway Well•Spring Retirement Community, Inc. Phone: (336) 545-5420 Fax: (336) 545-5411
4100 Well•Spring Drive Greensboro, NC 27410 www.well-spring.org
nation’s only accrediting body for continuing care retirement communities. Well•Spring is located at 4100 Well Spring Drive, Greensboro, North Carolina 27410.

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Stay CONNECTED when it really counts.
Family Health Network's "Connected for Life" is designed to help millions of families stay in touch, monitor, and assist older family members who desire to live healthier and longer in a place they call home.
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