BOSTON, Sept. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/
-- LifePod® Solutions Inc., the first-ever, proactive-voice
caregiving service, today announced that elder care innovator
HomeThrive has selected LifePod's voice-first service for rollout
to an initial 100 HomeThrive customers. With over 34 million people
serving as unpaid caregivers to adults over the age of 50, demand
has steadily increased for solutions that both enable loved ones to
live independently at home and make it easier for family caregivers
to support them. HomeThrive and LifePod are combining efforts to
offer a comprehensive care service, provided as an employer or
payer benefit, that integrates LifePod's innovative, voice-first
caregiving capabilities with the expert coaching and personal
assistant services delivered by HomeThrive CareGuides, themselves
master's-level social workers assigned to support the entire
family.
The National Caregiving Alliance estimates that 29% of American
adults currently serve as caregivers to one or more family members.
Caring for an aging family member requires time, energy and
resources, all of which are in short supply for most working
adults. As a result, the demands of caregiving ultimately impact
employers of caregivers in the form of lost productivity. Indeed,
caregiving costs the US economy $25.2
billion in lost productivity annually, according to
Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Survey (2011).
"After testing LifePod's innovative service, we've been
impressed by the results and we're thrilled to offer it to our
customers, as a complement to our range of support services," said
David Greenberg, HomeThrive's
Co-Founder and Managing Director. "LifePod's proactive and
personalized service will make it easier for family caregivers and
aging adults to live independent lives, while still remaining in
close, constant contact."
"We are proud to partner with HomeThrive to provide additional
peace of mind to working family caregivers and enable their aging
relatives to live independently," said Stuart R. Patterson, CEO of LifePod. "The
combination of HomeThrive's expert coach and personal assistance
service with LifePod's intuitive and proactive-voice service
represents the perfect blend of professional high-touch with
state-of-the-art high-tech, helping both caregivers and care
recipients alike."
To ease the caregiving strain on their employees, employers
offer HomeThrive as a new elective benefit option. HomeThrive
supports caregivers with a dedicated CareGuide — responsible for,
among other things, the coordination of necessary third-party
services such as transportation, meals, or home care — as well as a
digital portal and app that tie everything together for a
stress-free experience. All the while, aging loved ones get the
attention and assistance they need without giving up their dignity
or their home.
Using an intuitive, online portal and dialogue management
platform, LifePod simultaneously monitors and supports aging family
members via personalized voice prompts. LifePod also provides
real-time alerts, daily reports, periodic voice check-ins and more.
LifePod is a natural extension for HomeThrive, enabling an
always-on connection between the HomeThrive CareGuide and the
elderly care recipient. Together, the two innovators are helping
aging adults live with dignity and pleasure at home, while easing
the strain on their family caregivers.
This news builds on LifePod's recent momentum, which includes
two highly successful pilot programs with the Commonwealth Care
Alliance® (CCA) and luxury assisted living provider Wingate
Healthcare, resulting in the expansion of services to 600 clients
and residents. On August 29th,
LifePod also announced a groundbreaking study with the American
Heart Association to explore how Lifepod can impact outcomes for
heart failure patients.
About HomeThrive
HomeThrive provides non-medical care management and personal
assistance services to help aging loved ones thrive at home with
dignity and purpose. HomeThrive matches each client and their
family with one of its dedicated masters level social workers who
begins by conducting a comprehensive evaluation of home safety,
health, and well-being to inform a personalized care plan. The same
social worker develops a trusted relationship with the senior and
provides ongoing expert coaching to embrace healthy behaviors and
identifies, recommends, and coordinates any necessary third party
services to provide meals, transportation, home care, medication
delivery or other essential offerings. To learn more, visit
https://www.homethrive.com/
About LifePod Solutions
LifePod® is the first proactive-voice, AI-powered caregiving
service developed with a singular goal in mind: to support and
improve the quality of care and life for both caregivers and care
recipients throughout their journey together. LifePod's
customizable functionality fits the unique needs of a wide range of
caregivers supporting older adults aging in place as well as those
suffering from chronic illnesses or disabilities at home. Winner of
the Best of Show award in Patient-Focused Software at the 2019
Bio-IT World, LifePod's two-way voice service expands the
capabilities of popular smart speakers with patented technology
that supports natural voice dialogues, configured and controlled by
remote caregivers. The LifePod team, comprised of experienced voice
and health technology veterans, works closely with families,
professional caregivers, and senior living communities to improve
health outcomes and reduce the costs of long-term and chronic care.
To learn more and pre-order your LifePod today, visit
https://lifepod.com.
LifePod Press Contact:
lifepod@scratchmm.com
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