Digital signage is more than just another TV in your senior living community. It can engage your residents, motivate them to participate in activities, inform them of important events and make them laugh! Wondering how? Here are our top 10 ways of most effectively using digital signage to improve YOUR assisted living facility.
- Post Photos and Videos of Events at your Community
Have you recently held a fun activity at your retirement community? We’re sure you have! If you took any photos or videos, be sure to post them on your community TV and residence portal. It only takes a few minutes, but residents will greatly enjoy seeing themselves and their companions on a TV screen. We receive wonderful feedback on this feature quite often – take advantage!
- Need to Relay Important Info Quickly? Draft a Message in Seconds!
Maybe your retirement home or long term care facility just had an outbreak on floor 2. Or mail has been delivered and is ready for pickup. Or maybe someone came in with a large box of cookies. Whatever the case may be, you want to let everyone know as soon as possible. (Well, maybe not for the box of cookies). All you have to do is add a message to your TV channel in a few seconds – and it’ll be up automatically! Did we mention you can access the InTouchLink system from ANY device as long as you have an internet connection? You can’t go wrong!
- Customize Your Channel with your Logo and Brand Colours
The beauty of your InTouchLink TV is that it’s your TV, your channel. Change the clock to your brand colour, post your logo at the top, change the font, and change the layout. The possibilities are endless, and better yet – they’re easy. You can also use your TV as an assisted living marketing tool for your community – welcoming all prospects and showing them everything that is amazing about your community.
- Post Special Events Coming Up that your Residents can look forward to
One of the beauties of life is being able to look forward to something. If you have a special event coming up (Father’s Day BBQ, anyone?), make sure to let your residents know by posting it on your InTouchLink TV channel. You can even customize it with your own background image and any information that you would like to add!
- Post some Humor and other fun things!
How boring life would be without having the occasional laugh! Try posting a humorous quote or even a funny video to your assisted living TV channel! We suggest searching for Just for Laughs Gags videos or America’s Funniest Home Videos on YouTube. A wonderful feature of the InTouchLink system is that it’s super easy to post a video. Just search for something you like on YouTube, then link it back to your channel (it only takes 30 seconds!).
You can also post monthly or weekly fun facts. For example, the origins of the name of the Month (did you know the name May might have originated from the Greek Maia, meaning goddess of spring?). Other ideas include the birthstone of the month, or celebrity birthdays or events that occurred in history in that week or month.
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- Celebrate, Celebrate, Celebrate!
Never miss a chance to celebrate! Celebrate anniversaries, birthdays or any other special occasions by posting a short description and photo. Why not spread the joy?!
- Weather Forecast
Ensure that your residents are always prepared for the weather (even if you live in Canada where there is no preparing for the weather, ever). Just like everything else we do – we make this easy peezy lemon squeezy. You can configure an automatic weather forecast to appear on the TV and choose from a variety of options such as a several day forecast or just a daily forecast. You only need to do it once, and then you’re set! In fact, we add it in to your base channel when you first start up! (But you can always change the format).
- Local Events
There’s always something going on in the local community. Why not encourage everyone to get involved? Community-wide events build a sense of home and happiness. And festivals and fairs are fun for the whole family – more opportunities for grandparents to spend time with their grandkids! You can post a photo and a description on your channel in minutes and allow everyone to join in on the fun.
- Shift Schedule
Keep your residents informed by posting a shift schedule of nurses or other staff on duty for the day. They will appreciate knowing who is in their home and when, especially in cases where they may have a question or comment for a particular person.
- RSS Feeds
Just another great way to ensure that all your residents stay in the know! You can link a multitude of RSS feeds to your channel that will produce highlights from the latest sports or local and international news. Similar to the weather forecast, you need only do this once and your channel will do the rest! Isn’t technology great?
Digital Signage is not the end of what you can do for your residents; it’s just the beginning! Have your residents and your families login to a dedicated resident portal to keep up to date with everything going on even when they’re not in the building!
Freshly joined or seasoned veteran – we are always here for our clients. Need some extra training? Can’t figure something out? Want to learn about new features? Give us a call or email us. We’re happy to help – no ifs, ands or fees about it.
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