Caring Place HUB

More than 69 million family caregivers in the United States help older parents, spouses, grandparents, people with disabilities, wounded warriors, and other loved ones live independently in their homes and communities. These dedicated individuals juggle providing this aging care with their responsibilities to their employers, spouses, children, and communities. Employed caregivers seldom share their situation with their organization for fear of being passed over for projects and promotions.

Family and friends are stepping up worldwide to help support aging loved ones to remain independent as long as possible.

Amid this “caregiving crisis,” a new industry emerges. In the “Landscape of Caregiving Innovations – Findings and Recommendations” report by Stanford DCI https://dci.stanford.edu/wp-co... on page 61 they state:  “There is currently no singular place for a consumer/ caregiver to find companies, products, or services to assist them in the many different stages of caregiving and the many different needs of care recipients… While there is a relatively new service industry of Patient Advocates, Geriatric Care Managers, Care Navigators, and Concierge services emerging to assist caregivers and their care recipients in identifying services, products, and solutions, we believe a marketplace could help expand this concept.”  

The Caring Place HUB is a singular place for consumers and caregivers to find companies, products, services, virtual physicians, and counselors to assist them in the many different stages of caregiving and the many different needs of care recipients. It includes over 200 free resources with a vetted marketplace to assist caregivers and their care recipients to help identify services, products, and solutions.

The Caring Place HUB is available to individual family caregivers as a monthly subscription on their smartphone and as a computer dashboard. In addition, organizations offer access to the Caring Place HUB app as an employee benefit to help stabilize their workforce and keep employees on the job. Plus, healthcare facilities offer access to the Caring Place HUB when patients require assistance from their families to remain independent while they recuperate from an injury, short-term or long-term, as they age.

In most societies globally, caring for an aging family member is considered a natural responsibility. Some cultures have a designated person within the family who cares for children and aging family members as their primary role. In the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and other countries, nobody is at home ready to care for aging family members. Our societies are made up of working adults who are responsible for maintaining an income.

Currently, organizations are beginning to see the need to offer solutions to their employees with caregiving responsibilities. Healthcare facilities understand the critical role family caregivers play in patient care. Yet, most options presented to caregivers, especially employed caregivers, are incomplete, focusing on taking (often unpaid) time off and the logistics of nursing care (like transferring patients or monitoring vital signs).

The Caring Place HUB aims to provide a singular place for caregivers to find the resources to reduce stress, save time, stay on the job, and provide better care for older adults.

Our team lead, Jeannette Galvanek, Founder and CEO of CareWise Solutions, is uniquely qualified to serve the caregiver community. As a C-Suite executive in a Fortune 50 organization, she cared for her aging mother and continues to care for her daughters with developmental disabilities. The Caring Place HUB includes the resources she knows are critical as a caregiver and an HR executive. 

Our global team members have intimate experience as caregivers, and many have required care from family members to recover from an injury or illness.

In addition, Jeanette and CareWise Solutions receive regular industry feedback as thought leaders and social media influencers in the care space. The COLLISION OF WORK AND AGING FAMILY CARE WORKPLACE SURVEY currently being conducted promises to uncover even more evidence that the team at CareWise Solutions is well-positioned to deliver this solution.

The Caring Place HUB app is available in the Apple Store for individual download and as an online dashboard for individuals and organizations. We have vetted over 200 free resources and approximately twenty partners in the curated marketplace offering various solutions critical to the role of family caregiver. Our partners and a few selected individuals are testing the apps and developing a trial protocol. We are conducting licensing agreements with five employers.

As a self-funded, female-owned,  hybrid educational and non-profit,  and Age Tech commercial organization, CareWise Solutions is applying to Solve for both non-monetary and monetary support.

We request non-monetary marketing and technical support, especially with implementing trials, to collect reliable statistics on the impact of the Caring Place HUB on individuals, families, and the workforce. We need digital innovation to seamlessly connect all our business partners as a co-branded Caring Place HUB and infrastructure to manage the business better to serve families and caregivers. We have received interest from Healthcare Discharge units and Social Services (aging) agencies that the HUB would streamline communications across current silos and develops the staff to more holistic “consumer“ solutions.  AI could help us proactively identify our members’ needs and understand how we can better predict the care needs of aging families, not just manage the family crisis when it arrives. There is no reliable source of family caregiver data, there is no source of inter-entity/inter industry analysis and proposals for continuous improvement from a nonexistent baseline. Healthcare at home is not a caregiving role for families. The HUB distinguishes health and caring family, which is an essential delineation.

Monetary support would help add staff members to advance our work quickly as this caregiving crisis escalates.

The Caring Place HUB curates vetted free and paid resources for caregivers in a singular platform. Negotiating the care space for resources is time-consuming and frustrating. Plus, it is hard to know what potential solutions are trustworthy and worthwhile.

Although the Caring Place HUB does not (yet) have every resource a caregiver may need, this is a start. The easy-to-use, intuitive design brings a single marketplace to caregivers as solutions providers present their wares in an accessible platform.

While caring for an aging loved one is stressful in many ways, a significant issue for caregivers is the time and frustration associated with navigating the overwhelming information in the care industry. 

There is currently no (other) singular place for a consumer/ caregiver to find companies, products, or services to assist them in the many different stages of caregiving and the many different needs of care recipients. As this new care service industry emerges to assist caregivers and their care recipients, the Caring Place HUB helps caregivers identify vetted, trustworthy aging services, products, education,  and solutions.

Our impact goals include positively affecting our aging population, caregivers of aging loved ones, and their employers. For our aging population, our aim is to help support aging at home with greater independence and comfort without placing burdens on personal relationships. For their caregivers, our objective is to provide them with a robust collection of the resources they need to reduce the time, expense, and stress associated with aging care. For their employers, we aim to offer a low-cost, turnkey employee benefit to keep their staff on the job to reduce time off, leaves of absence, emergency call-outs, presenteeism, workflow disruptions, and disengagement.

A data collection system uses employee surveys for caregivers, non-caregivers, and team leaders to assess organizational workflow and culture changes. Employers provide statistics on time off, leaves of absence, and other care-related issues. Each employer sets specific productivity KPIs as a measure of organizational effectiveness. 

The Caring Place HUB is an online dashboard and synced smartphone app. It connects over 20 partners and 200 other resources in one central HUB.

We have used multiple technologies to create an exciting solution, including audio-visual, AI, IoT, and  operations for concierge service 

Jeannette Galvanek- Full time

7 Contractors

CareWise Solutions was founded by Jeannette Galvanek in 2019. The Caring Place HUB dashboard and app have been in specific development for two years. She spent 3 years prior to incorporation studying the international issues/challenges.

By adding team members from around the world, we ensure diversity. Our team works from the United States, Canada, South America, Egypt, the Philippines, and India. This inclusive environment offers equitable opportunities at all levels.

The Caring Place HUB combines three business models.

1. B2C – This direct-to-the-consumer model offers an online dashboard and synced smartphone app to individual family caregivers. The monthly membership gives them ongoing access to resources, even without sponsorship from an organization.

2.         B2B – Employers and healthcare facilities can sponsor the Caring Place HUB for those caring for aging loved ones.

3.         B2G - Community services organizations and agencies can sponsor the Caring Place HUB for caregivers they serve.

Jeannette Galvanek has funded CareWise Solutions with $800,000. Our solutions are receiving very positive reviews as "unmatched and first to market"  in meeting the current health and care needs across all communities.

It's hard for women to obtain funding, even for someone like Jeannette, a seasoned C-Suite executive with transformational roles in the telecommunications industry.

We have applied for VC funding and grants without success, but we are entering into partnerships with well-funded organizations. Many small companies match our experience in this emerging Care Economy. 

The Caring Place HUB is now commercially available. Our paid corporate trials are starting next month.

We need a cash infusion to sustain the business.