The GoodCompanion’s system is preprogrammed, custom-made for every family and able to go.
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Veterans Home Care awarded for bringing Alexa and IOT to older adults 65-100+ yrs outdated
— David Laiderman, CEO
ST. LOUIS, MO, USA, October 4, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Veterans Home Care (VHC) earned a Gold Award for first place within the 2022 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards. The awards characterize one of the best of tech innovation in Home Care, Senior Living and Skilled Nursing.
A panel of knowledgeable judges, together with 25 long-term care stakeholders, judged lots of of nominations, assessing the packages for their total worth in enhancing resident care and providers, affect, relevance, execution and creativity.
Veterans Home Care was acknowledged for its breakthrough expertise known as GoodCompanion. VHC took high honors within the Home Care Keep it Super Simple Category that highlights easy however efficient functions of expertise that improved the availability of care, providers or operations.
Award winners have been introduced October 4, 2022 throughout the second annual McKnight’s Tech Awards + Summit on-line occasion. The profitable firms may also be feted at an in-person occasion October 17, 2022 in Denver, CO.
VHC and the GoodCompanion product stand out for the power to interchange outdated medical alert units with a sophisticated voice-activated, Alexa powered medical alert system providing hands-free telephone calls, video calls, digital help, and leisure. It enhances in-home care, reduces older grownup isolation and delivers peace of thoughts to relations.
“We are humbled and excited to be recognized by McKnight’s for this special award,” stated David Laiderman, CEO of Veterans Home Care. “SmartCompanion is designed to address ongoing caregiver shortages and increased demand from a growing older population. The system is pre-programed and tailored for each individual. Internet isn’t a problem. It comes with the appropriate connectivity for the home. To install, just plug it in and play. With this platform in homes, we’re now piloting added services such as our VoiceHealth app for remote patient monitoring.”
Friendship Village, a St. Louis space senior dwelling group who piloted the GoodCompanion system, additionally acquired a Gold and Silver Award from McKnight’s. The latter was for their adoption of GoodCompanion.
VHC first launched the product to their current consumer base as a part of their VetAssist Program. These are veterans or their surviving spouses who qualify for the Aid and Attendance VA profit. For them, the product is branded VetAssist Companion and is roofed by the VA profit. The VetAssist Program shoppers obtain an array of providers together with VetAssist Companion with no out-of-pocket prices. For all others who don’t qualify for VetAssist, the system is known as GoodCompanion.
“Adding SmartCompanion LLC to the Veterans Home Care family of companies tremendously extends our footprint in senior care,” Laiderman stated. “We can re-imagine home care by adding virtual components to increase affordable care options in a much broader market. We’re now marketing beyond our narrow niche of veteran families and have set the groundwork for a future move toward telemedicine and therapeutic care. VHC has several new and exciting products on the horizon which will be available to all seniors.”
ABOUT VETERANS HOME CARE
Veterans Home Care LLC, a woman-owned business headquartered in St. Louis, was based in 2003 by Bonnie Laiderman to assist certified wartime veterans and their surviving spouses, apply for a non-service linked incapacity pension from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which may pay for help with actions of every day dwelling of their properties. VHC’s VetAssist® Program makes use of a community of greater than 4,000 residence care companies to offer residence care, matches them with caregivers and follows as much as guarantee that the veteran or partner stays in compliance with VA pointers to proceed receiving the pension. Veterans Home Care has helped greater than 20,000 veterans or their surviving spouses to entry VA advantages for the care they want. Veterans Home Care will not be a authorities company and isn’t affiliated with the Department of Veterans Affairs. For extra info: https://veteranshomecare.com, 314-514-2444, [email protected]
ABOUT SMARTCOMPANION CARE
GoodCompanion Care LLC was launched in 2020 by the identical senior care consultants who based Veterans Home Care to carry innovative expertise and software program options to disabled and older adults. The GoodCompanion system is a breakthrough hands-free telephone and video calling system, a voice-activated medical alert system and a digital GoodCompanion powered by Alexa. It reduces isolation maintaining older adults engaged and enabling easy accessibility to the web. Each GoodCompanion system is pre-programmed and customised for every consumer. The similar system is branded VetAssist Companion for sure wartime veterans or their surviving spouses who qualify for the VA’s Aid and Attendance profit who can obtain the Alexa-powered system with no out-of-pocket prices. For extra info: https://www.smartcompanion.care, https://veteranshomecare.com/companion 855-488-1081 [email protected]
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