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RIVERDALE, N.Y. – October 12, 2022 – (Newswire.com)
RiverSpring Living’s Hebrew Home at Riverdale, the iconic Bronx-based long-term care community, announced today a major push into technology with an expansive augmented and virtual reality initiative for its 600+ residents.
Residents of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale are experiencing a new virtual reality program through a partnership with Boston-based Rendever. Rendever, a leading provider of virtual reality services to the healthcare industry, has created a custom VR experience for the Hebrew Home community, transporting older adults around the world.
This VR effort is making the impossible possible. The limitations of age and physical fragility, in addition to the impact of COVID, has reduced and, in many cases, prevented residents of the Hebrew Home from traveling outside of the campus. Virtual reality has opened the doors of possibility to change that.
This technology is being used in a variety of initiatives:
Globetrotting Near and Far
Residents are being transported to the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China and to the neighborhoods where they grew up. Because of technology, there is no limitation to where and when they can explore.
Attending Family Gatherings … Virtually
The Hebrew Home is equipping family members of its long-term care residents with GoPro cameras to film weddings, graduations, little league games and other important family events and gatherings.
Footage is uploaded to the VR headsets and shared with residents. Trained therapists work with residents, talking about the meaning of the family event, how they feel, and memories of spending time with them when they were younger.
Easing the Agitation of Dementia
Preliminary usage of VR at the Hebrew Home indicates that residents suffering from early stages of dementia are engaged and demonstrate increased attention and decreased agitation when using VR headsets that display family or calming images.
Preparing for Home After Rehab
Families of rehab patients are provided GoPro cameras to film each room in the home. These videos are uploaded to a virtual reality headset so that the patient can virtually walk through each room. Therapists can see the room on an accompanying iPad, helping the patient navigate. If changes need to be made — such as removing rugs to prevent falls, opening more space between a couch and table for a walker or wheelchair to get through, the therapist provides feedback before the patient heads home.
Augmented and virtual reality is creating worlds to see and meet people beyond the Hebrew Home’s Riverdale campus. With this new technology initiative, Hebrew Home residents are just a headset away from endless possibilities.
About RiverSpring Living
RiverSpring Living, backed by over 100 years of top-rated service as the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, provides progressive care to over 18,000 older adults of all faiths through compassionate care and vibrant community engagement, and is guided by Jewish values and a non-profit mission that advocates and celebrates a vision of empowered aging.
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Recent Patent Furthers UpKeep’s Mission of Empowering Maintenance Teams
LOS ANGELES – October 12, 2022 – (Newswire.com)
For over three years now, UpKeep has invested time, effort, and energy into UpKeep Edge—the company’s second product that allows maintenance, reliability, and operations professionals to use data as the key to collaboration and success.
Thrilled with the success the company has seen by their customers using Edge, UpKeep embarked on a journey to show how transformative and different Edge is by filing a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Now, two years later, the patent for Edge has finally been approved and issued as of Sept. 20, 2022.
What Is UpKeep Edge?
UpKeep Edge leverages secure wireless internet of things (IoT) sensors and cellular gateways to deliver real-time data about assets and operating environments. Maintenance, operations, and reliability teams are better equipped with Edge to scale their ability to monitor the operating performance of critical equipment and facilities. Click here to learn more about Edge.
History Behind the Patent
Edge has been in the works since the summer of 2019 but wasn’t widely released until more recently.
“I had mentioned the concept of using sensors to track asset performance and level up maintenance practices to UpKeep’s engineering team,” said Ryan Chan, Founder and CEO of UpKeep. “Mark McKelvy, a Product Manager at UpKeep, was just as bullish on the idea as I was and volunteered to start the project from scratch.”
After an initial proof of concept, Chan and McKelvy immediately saw the potential Edge could have on the industry. They knew others were working in the IoT space and leveraging sensors in various capacities, but they also knew UpKeep was doing something different by bringing sensor data to maintenance teams to help them monitor asset performance and get ahead of critical failures.
“We believed it was something worth calling out and protecting. So we’re thrilled to hear that the United States Patent and Trademark Office agreed with us,” said Chan.
“This patent is a great achievement for the UpKeep team as it highlights our continued commitment to the kind of innovation that takes our customers’ operations to the next level,” said McKelvy.
About UpKeep
UpKeep is an Asset Operations Management platform purpose-built to bring together maintenance, operations, and reliability data to help teams make important business decisions. Our mobile-first solution centralizes data from across teams and devices into one configurable and easy-to-implement solution that provides real-time data into the day-to-day maintenance life cycle, asset utilization and performance measurement to help optimize maintenance strategies, improve asset performance, and increase availability and reliability.
Learn more at Upkeep.com.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – October 12, 2022 – (Newswire.com)
Comfort Research®, the creators of Big Joe®, has announced the new Chief Executive Officer, Ryan McLean. McLean has been on the job for four weeks now and is thrilled to be leading the future of Comfort Research.
With opportunity surrounding the company, McLean has been brought onto the team at an exciting time. Innovation within Comfort Research has been a staple since its humble beginnings, and Ryan will be helping initiate that growth through e-commerce and B2B.
“Big Joe is a fun brand with exciting new innovation on the horizon,” stated McLean.
The Co-founders Chip George and Matt Jung along with VP of People and Culture, Becky Ploeg were able to be a large part of the hiring process for Ryan. “From the first conversations with him, we felt not only would he fit into our innovation-driven culture of Find a Better Way, Expect the Best, and Do the Right Thing, but be able to build upon it,” explained Jung.
“We couldn’t have found a better fit,” George added. “We worked with Titus, a local recruiting agency, who uses a predictive index program that scored him at 100% perfect match for Comfort Research.”
“I could sense an authentic leadership from Ryan,” said Ploeg. “His commitment to culture, personable authenticity, and consumer product goods background made him a fantastic choice for Comfort Research.”
McLean comes to Comfort Research with over 25 years of experience within the consumer goods industry. In addition, McLean has shown his knowledge in versatile roles and departments, from marketing, sales, brand management to, most recently, Senior Vice President.
Comfort Research has welcomed Ryan with excitement and open arms ready for the future.
About Comfort Research®
Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Co-Founders Matt Jung and Chip George began revolutionizing affordable, fun furniture from their college dorm in 1997. Comfort Research® has now sold over 25 million units, with over 100 patents and trademarks, and operates in three state-of-the-art plants with more than 275 employees across the U.S. While we’re no longer using a wood chipper to shred foam, we’re still committed to making products you’ll love that are stylish, durable, fun and most importantly, absurdly awesome.
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MIAMI – October 12, 2022 – (Newswire.com)
Come On, the Miami-based genderless fashion label known for its seasonless designs, is going back to Bauhaus for its latest collection, “FRATERNITÉ.”
With bold lines, brilliant color schemes, and exciting new fabrics, Come On’s latest collection pays homage to the early modernist masters of the early modern art movements of 20th century Europe, emphasizing spontaneity, negation and absurdity. The 27 SKUs in the collection include glamorous sheer minidresses and structural harnesses, as well as polo shirts and vests that offer a playful take on American traditional apparel. All are designed to mix and match with the unique and colorful suits of existing collections, in keeping with the brand’s continued application of traditional tailoring methods.
After debuting their previous two collections at New York Fashion Week, Come On unveiled FRATERNITÉ during Paris Fashion Week on Oct. 2 at La Galerie Bourbon. The collection is available now at comeonworld.com with further online launches at Come On’s retail affiliates, Flying Solo in the US and Wolf & Badger in the UK, to come. Brick-and-mortar retail launches will follow at Flying Solo in SoHo, New York, and at Wolf & Badger in London.
Come On has long taken inspiration from the inventive modern art of the early 20th century, especially surrealism. For FRATERNITÉ, they reach back further to two incredibly important groups, both of which recently celebrated their centenary: the provocative, proto-surrealist Dada movement and the short-lived, yet deeply influential Bauhaus design school. The DNA of Dada artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray is stitched in the new collection’s provocative garments, while the straight lines and minimal designs attest to the German art academy’s lasting legacy. Following in the footsteps of Bauhaus master Walter Gropius, Come On is determined to make great design an essential part of everyday life.
As with every collection, Come On is committed to working towards sustainability in its process, crafting garments that last beyond ephemeral trend cycles and creating responsible products for responsible consumers. The brand utilizes vintage fabrics and scrap material from previous collections to create new designs, emphasizing durability, versatility and longevity. A Come On garment is meant to be timeless and trend-resistant, interchangeable from season to season and collection to collection.
Visit Come On’s Atelier in Miami:
7255 NE 4th Ave Suite 118
Miami, FL 33138
Monday – Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Visit Come On in NYC:
Flying Solo
420 West Broadway
New York, NY 10012
Monday – Sunday 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Visit Come On in London:
Wolf & Badger
Coal Drops Yard
London N1C 4DQ
Monday – Saturday 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Sunday 11:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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Marketing Manager, Come On
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