The Front Porch Center for Technology Innovation and Wellbeing (Front Porch Center), one of Southern California's largest not-for-profit providers of retirement living communities and affordable housing, recently announced its partnership with CareSpeak Communications.
New Jersey based CareSpeak Communications provides mobile communications technology solutions to health care professionals, patients, and caregivers in the clinical organizations, insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. Through its mHealth platform, CareSpeak's Mobile Medication Manager sends text messages to a mobile phone to help a user take his/her medication on time and in the right amount. In addition, an alert is sent to the caregiver in the absence of any intake confirmation response from the patient/user.
“With the aging population trend in the USA, it is important to create simple, affordable, yet effective tools to help seniors and their circle-of-care manage the seniors' health and wellness better. Medication therapy compliance, monitoring of biometrics, and patient education play a significant part in improving health and quality of life for seniors, and CareSpeak's mobile health platform helps seniors achieve that. CareSpeak's platform, using a ubiquitous, inexpensive technology, helps keep people out of the hospital and living independently,” CareSpeak's founding president and CEO Srdjan (Serge) Loncar, explained in a press release.
As a result of the partnership between the two organizations, CareSpeak’s two-way SMS-based medication reminder service will be available on virtually any cell phone or smartphone device with a texting plan, under Front Porch ‘s "Minding Our Meds: Demonstrating Senior Medication Adherence with Cell Phone Texting Reminders" project, which is aimed at addressing medication adherence among active, independent older adults using a cell phone texting service.
The Front Porch Center for Technology Innovation and Wellbeing's "Minding Our Meds" project is supported by a grant from the Center for Technology and Aging. The project will focus on 150 adults age 50+ living across Front Porch communities and neighboring senior centers, the sources revealed in a press rleasee.
"CareSpeak has an exciting vision for how two-way text messaging technology can play a critical role in medication and care compliance," said Kari Olson, president of the Front Porch Center for Technology Innovation and Wellbeing. "We are very excited to show through this pilot how this easy-to-use and affordable mHealth solution can meet the medication management needs of an active senior population. This is a great example of how everyday technologies that are already widely adopted can be tapped to meet the needs of older adults."
Madhubanti Rudra is a contributing editor for HealthTechZone. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
Stefanie Mosca
