Digital Work-Life And Caregiving Solutions Are A Gold Rush!
What could a connected, digital future look like for all of us who are facing family caregiving and retaining our current paid jobs? What would the future hold if we addressed working people who are currently experiencing reduced productivity, pay and financial losses?
AARP found that they are racking up out-of-pocket expenses to the tune of $6,954 per year. What’s the outlook for businesses addressing their hidden $36.B care-related wastes? What solutions are prophesied if risk management experts concluded that the unmet at home or local caregiving needs of 40+ million aging baby boomers (growing to 80+ million) would intensify prevailing labor market shortages?
Imagine the future when Government policy and digital investments remedy the evolving labor market shortfall? Big challenges that require many interventions, but technology can play a big role.
How Can Technology Offer Greater Value?
When you’re running about in meetings all day, have hundreds of emails to read, and must meet tight deadlines, the attraction of technology – especially mobile – is undeniable.
If you work and are the family caregiver what apps or devices are available?
And if you download the right apps, how do you connect them to improve the outcome? According to a study by Mobile Health News, 2012. There were more than 7,800 health-related applications, hard to find any target for caregivers especially those who also have a paid job. More than 500,000 apps are available across all venues and platforms with growth continuing at a rapid pace.
Experts estimate that the IoT (Internet of Things) will consist of about 30 billion objects by 2020. Worker and workforce caregiver solutions are virtually non-existent, yet with focus and investments, it will become an emerging market opportunity.
Think about our transportation system. If we built our town roads without connectivity to a state road system, an insufficient path would bind us. Building national highways (roads), simplified travel beyond local boundaries in a more cost-effective way. Similarly, care challenged employees need access to local, state and national resources capable to structurally sustain the baby boomer generation’s 30-year aging journey. As in the transportation scenario, policy and technology infrastructure are in need.
Shaping Our Future
As corporate and government agents shape our local care policy and technological future, the vision must be invented. New technology enables methods of working and caring.
However with added value policy and digital solutions, corporations might be able to contain substantial fiscal and human wastes in front of them. In addition the increasingly complex and skilled caregiving role can be delivered with a core professional team supported through mobile technology. With expanded mobile and desktop access to solutions. Workers could renew focus on their paid jobs while offering “loving care” not “caregiving”. The business teams’ motivation would rebind. And our aging and infirm people could experience the dignity of aging that our nation ought to provide.
These Are National Gold Rush Opportunities
Also Read: Employee Home Care Burdens Are Your Economic Threat
