Articles from SafelyYou

SafelyYou, the comprehensive AI platform for elevating care across the senior living industry, has announced continued growth in its partnership with Merrill Gardens, a respected senior living operator with 56 communities across 16 states. Merrill Gardens now has 30 communities live with SafelyYou, including 10 that launched in 2026.

SafelyYou has integrated its Safety AI® technology directly into PalCare, a leading premier nurse call technology platform, allowing staff to access SafelyYou's fall detection insights without leaving the PalCare app. Now, when a fall is detected, caregivers receive a high-priority alert, document their responses, and are prompted to review fall footage through SafelyYou Discover®, all without leaving the PalCare app.

SafelyYou, the AI leader in senior living, has released the 2026 Cost of Senior Care report. The landmark research was commissioned by SafelyYou and conducted by independent research firm Merrill Research across 175 senior living leaders. The report, building off the Cost of Falls report conducted by the company in 2022, delivers one of the most comprehensive looks at the real operational and financial costs facing assisted living and memory care operators today, and maps a clear path toward earlier visibility, reduced risk, and stronger community performance.

SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through proven AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians, has appointed Joelle Poe as Vice President of Strategy. In her new role, Poe will lead SafelyYou's strategic initiatives, helping to shape the long-term direction of the business, sharpen the company's competitive positioning, and translate deep customer and market insight into product and go-to-market decisions that define the next frontier of AI-powered senior living.

ONELIFE Senior Living, a provider dedicated to wholeheartedly supporting, enhancing, and empowering the lives of each resident, colleague, and family they serve, announced they are going all in across their portfolio with SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through proven AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians. The decision was made even before the pilot concluded, and expands SafelyYou to all 13 of ONELIFE’s communities.

SafelyYou, the AI leader senior living relies on with a comprehensive platform for elevating care across the industry, has announced the release of a revolutionary new platform, SafelyYou Halo™, which uses world-leading AI to deliver next-gen eCall. This marks a significant leap forward in care delivery for senior living, as SafelyYou Halo™ works continuously to identify critical safety, wellness, and staffing patterns, so that interventions occur earlier, resources are optimized, and care planning is both more frequent and more effective.

SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians, has announced SafelyYou Aware™, a new resident wellness AI that delivers the most comprehensive and accurate predictive care profile for residents in senior living, empowering communities to profoundly improve care planning, increase resident well-being, and extend length of stay.

SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians, has announced that founder and CEO George Netscher was elected to the Board of Directors for Argentum, the leading national association dedicated to supporting companies that operate professionally managed, resident-centered senior living communities.

Avista Senior Living, an innovative senior care provider with kindness at the core of everything they do, has seen remarkable results in their partnership with SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians. By implementing SafelyYou Respond™, Avista has dramatically increased length of stay, improved tenure, reduced response time to on-the-ground events to an average of 84 seconds, as well as reduced fall-related ER visits.

SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians, has announced the close of a $43 million Series C financing round led by Touring Capital, a growth stage firm focused on AI-powered SaaS startups. The funding fuels SafelyYou’s ability to help solve critical challenges in senior care, including how accurately and efficiently operators can predict residents’ care needs.

SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians, has announced that SafelyYou Respond™ was proven to significantly improve resident length of stay, retention, and turnover in a landmark study. The analysis of 3,800 residents across 80 senior living communities using SafelyYou for more than a year is the first to demonstrate a correlation between fall risk reduction and better occupancy rates in senior care, providing crucial insights into how successful fall management helps operators not only improve care delivery and resident outcomes, but also maintain census, thereby reducing costs and increasing NOI. Based on the industry’s most comprehensive data set, the study clearly illustrates SafelyYou’s ability to extend residents’ time in their communities.

Yardi, the leading provider of integrated senior living management software, has partnered with SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians, to create a care-enhancing interface, delivering data never before available in senior living. As a result, organizations using Yardi and SafelyYou will be able to see care measurement information holistically and make the most of care planning and resources, transforming how they operate, improving outcomes for residents, and maximizing margin.

SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians, has seen significant results using SafelyYou Respond™ with Lifespark, a complete senior health provider.

Via Elegante Assisted Living and Memory Care, a family-owned provider of luxury senior care in a home-like environment across Southern Arizona, announced the use of a $460k grant to implement SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians. During the pilot, Via Elegante remarkably reduced its fall response time to under 60 seconds, compared to the industry average of 40 minutes based on an NIH study.

Milestone Retirement, one of the fastest-growing senior living operators with 100+ years of combined industry and hospitality leadership experience, announced their decision to expand SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians. With the expansion, SafelyYou will serve 10 additional Milestone communities.

New Perspective Senior Living, a leading senior living provider dedicated to helping 10,000 seniors live with purpose by 2025, announced their decision to expand SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing sensors, and remote expert clinicians.

Cogir Senior Living, a leading senior living provider committed to making residents’ lives better, announced their decision to expand SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians. With SafelyYou’s proven success, Cogir is furthering the innovation’s reach across both communities and care levels, expanding to 36 communities, and now offering SafelyYou for assisted living as well as memory care.

Allegro Senior Living, a leading provider of distinctive retirement communities for discerning seniors, announced the results of their pilot with SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing sensors, and remote expert clinicians. Based on their success, Allegro chose to expand SafelyYou to more of its communities.

SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing sensors, and remote expert clinicians, announced they are expanding with Sonida Senior Living, a leading senior living provider helping seniors live their best lives through a person-directed approach to engaging community life. With the expansion, SafelyYou will serve 26 Sonida communities.

MorningStar Senior Living, an integrated developer, owner, and operator of premier retirement communities, announced their decision to expand SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered care in senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing sensors and remote expert clinicians. With this expansion, SafelyYou technology will be in the Memory Care neighborhoods of 32 MorningStar communities.

SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered dementia care through real-time AI video technology and 24/7 remote clinical experts, was named to the latest Fortune Impact 20 list, which recognizes start-ups tackling key social and environmental issues as part of their business model. SafelyYou was chosen for addressing resident falls in senior living, thereby reducing risk for residents and saving costs for families and communities.

Every second, an older American experiences a fall, and for senior living communities, falls increase resident risk, compound staffing issues, and drive significant costs. According to the SafelyYou 2022 Cost of Falls Report, falls are costing communities $380,000 per year on average—$5,000 per resident fall with an injury—and 85% of senior care executives found that falls significantly impact staff turnover.

Today Avista Senior Living, a provider of innovative, quality care for seniors, announced the expansion of its partnership with SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered dementia care through real-time AI video technology and 24/7 remote clinical experts. With today’s news, nine more Avista communities now have access to SafelyYou’s world-leading technology, which offers a new standard of care that addresses silent falls, provides peace of mind for families, and drives move-ins to Avista's communities.

Vitality Living, a leading senior care provider committed to empowering successful aging through engagement and innovation, has successfully prevented 7 fall-related move-outs across two communities in just two months with the implementation of SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered dementia care through real-time AI video technology and 24/7 remote clinical experts.

Every second, an older American experiences a fall, and for senior living communities, falls put residents at risk, impact labor issues and drive significant costs. According to the SafelyYou 2022 State of Falls Report, falls are costing communities $380,000 per year on average – $5,000 per resident fall with an injury – and 85% of senior care executives found that falls significantly impact staff turnover.

Every second of every day, more than 86,000 older Americans suffer a fall, with 65 percent of falls happening between 7:00 pm and 7:00 am. At senior care communities, nighttime falls are nearly impossible to monitor, prevent and understand because caregivers don’t have constant insight into resident behavior and sleep disruptions. To deliver a clearer picture of resident risk during these vulnerable nighttime hours, SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered dementia care through real-time AI video technology and 24/7 remote clinical experts, today launched its newest product, SafelyYou Aware™.

In recognition of Falls Prevention Awareness Week (Sept. 18-24), SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered dementia care through real-time AI video technology and 24/7 remote clinical experts, today released comprehensive research findings that bring into clear focus how prevalent, serious and costly falls are – both financially and emotionally – and paint a picture of how American adults (42+) feel about aging.

In recognition of Falls Prevention Awareness Week (Sept. 18-24), SafelyYou, the leader in empowering safer, more person-centered dementia care through real-time AI video technology and 24/7 remote clinical experts, today launched its inaugural 2022 State of Falls report with research findings that bring into clear focus how prevalent, serious, and costly falls are across the country’s senior living communities.

On August 29, 2022, SafelyYou, who empowers safer, more person-centered dementia care through its world-leading, real-time AI video technology and 24/7 remote clinical experts, will be hosting its inaugural Silicon Valley Senior Living Summit in Menlo Park. Due to today’s fast-growing aging population – by 2050, there will be 90 million adults age 65 and older living in the U.S. – and to meet this national health care crisis, SafelyYou is bringing some of the world’s best minds together to begin designing a better future for senior living, and address the many associated challenges that impact senior living providers including staffing, resident safety and quality of care.