Extending Health Care Into Home via Connected Caregivers Be First Priority

Extending health care into the home via connected caregivers should be a national priority. Huge majorities of people strongly prefer to age in place, there isn’t sufficient national infrastructure to institutionalize seniors in need of functional support and it is unsustainable financially privately and publicly. Perhaps most importantly, health outcomes could improve while overall health spending decreased: connected caregivers can improve preventive care in the home through scripted prompts, provide thoughtful functional support in the home and send real-time medical data that is monitored by skilled healthcare resources leading to timely intervention opportunities and fewer avoidable hospital admissions.