CareWheels

CareWheels: greater independence through interdependence.

CareWheels Corporation Information

An Oregon §501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation, developing TeleCare Technologies and Services to help people live safely and independently in their own homes, using SmartHome and Artificial Intelligence technologies to help keep elders, their families and professional caregivers connected and informed of their well-being.

Research & Development: The Pine Point Project

A proof-of-concept for the participatory design of Internet-enabled Assistive Technologies by working-age people with disabilities to support themselves and frail elders within their community. CareWheels TeleCare Video

SmartHome Research: Sensor Data Fusion to Support Aging in Place

A proof-of-concept using Dynamic Relational Bayesian Network modeling to transform sensor data into meaningful Activities of Daily Living such as sleeping, eating and medicating, and to detect anomalies like falls, that may require intervention.

TeleCare Service Network: Closing the Circle of Care

The ultimate goal of the CareWheels Project is to develop and deploy a TeleCare Service Network to support people's wishes and growing need to live independently and age gracefully in place, through virtual caring communities.

LOVE: Lake Oswego Value Exchange, a Mutual Credit & Time Bank

Mutual Credit is complementary currency designed to build social capital, promote reciprocity and strengthen our core economy: home, family, neighborhood and community that have been so damaged by the global financial meltdown. Time Banking is a method of reciprocal service exchange that uses time units as mutual credit, which creates value in the CareWheels Interdependent-care model by converting surplus human capital assets into social capital to reinforce fraying social services and hedge against fiscal austerity.

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