For most seniors, the best place to age is
at home while maintaining independence.

The CareAssist System

Careful Products' unique approach is to deliver a low-complexity product seniors want to use; one they can easily integrate into their daily lives because it's fun and affordable.

It also empowers the family and caregivers with the flexible, remote monitoring tools needed to assist them in caring for their loved one's health and safety.

The CareAssist system has three major components:

1. an attractive, picture-frame appliance with a touch screen interface for the senior,
2. a furniture grade pill box with an embedded web cam, and
3. a web-based monitoring system for the caregiver.

CareAssist is also integrated with a secure 24x7 caregiver-managed computer monitoring service that provides caregivers with automatic and continuous information about the senior's wellbeing. The service sends alerts when a senior's actions fall outside defined limits which can be delivered by email, phone or text message.

One of CareAssist's most important features is designed to improve medication compliance. Its system of reminders to seniors (and alerts to their caregivers) helps to avoid transfers of seniors to more intensive, higher-cost modes of care. In fact, medication non-compliance is responsible for 23 percent of nursing home admissions and 10 percent of hospital admissions. Most of the choices for care (such as hiring a home health aide or moving into an extended care facility) involve significant cost, the loss of independence for the senior, as well as a substantial disruption of everyone's life.