A new AARP report, “Caregiving Innovation Frontier” describes the framework of the looming national crisis in providing home and senior care to over 100M seniors and disabled in the country in the near future. The challenges include: finding capable caregivers; absence of strict control and accountability over in-home employees by agencies; the need to better train and certify employees; better tools to specify and track services rendered and provide alerts for decline or emergency conditions; and the costs to seniors and their families, which is 70% on average.

This white paper is based on my experience as a previous owner of a licensed and accredited home healthcare agency. It delves into these disruptive forces of change and highlights how recent advances in digital technology—smartphones and tablets, sensors, cloud storage, and predictive analysis—can cost effectively help to solve current homecare problems and give agencies an advantage in the market.