In CareMobi, users can log important data including a person's medications, vital signs, appointments, meals and appetite, sleep, and more, and then share this knowledge with their care team within the app.
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Following several years of research and development supported by grants from the National Institute on Aging, Sadarangani created CareMobi, a free smartphone app that connects caregivers with health care providers around the care and well-being of older adults. Through her work with older adults and their caregivers, Tina Sadarangani, an assistant professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, saw an opportunity to use technology to bridge this gap. More than three-quarters of adults want to continue living in their homes as they grow older-a practice known as "aging in place." Family members, friends, home health aides, and health care providers are all often involved in the care for these community-dwelling older adults, but crucial details can easily get lost between them. With her brother in Massachusetts and her sister in Florida, the siblings have sometimes struggled to keep everyone in the loop on appointments and treatments.
But she also knows it firsthand, through her experience overseeing the medical needs of her parents who live in Florida, nearly 3,000 miles away from her home in California. A social worker who works in aging services, Lugo often sees this intergenerational dynamic play out.
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