Complete Care Companion - Gamification, Machine Learning and Automation to create a new kind of home care

Abstract

**High quality, personalised home care is** critical to supporting people to remain active, independent and **socially connected** through facilitating activities in the community, **promoting mobility** and enabling people to have a **good quality of life** as they age.

But the home care sector is in crisis. 95% of care providers cannot take on any more clients (ITV/UKHCA 2021) due to critical workforce shortages. Depersonalised unevidenced care disempowers older people, antiquated experiences waste time and manual processes make it impossible to scale.

**Demand will double** in the next 15 years, with a significant deficit in the quality and quantity of home care available. 1.5million adults today have an unmet care need (Age UK 2018) and demand is rapidly increasing.

Critical **shortage of care workers and high churn rates** (caused by poor working conditions e.g. lack of respect, support, training, communication; and inefficient recruitment processes) has caused good applicants to leave for other fields.

Additionally, a 'one size fits all' approach to care delivery (de-personalised care) neglects outcomes and disempowers older people, often leading to reluctance to seek support and thus a worsening of mental and physical health conditions; and high rates of unpaid carer breakdown. The impact is profound with poor continuity of care, lack of long-term relationships, and worsening economic inequality.

Lifted, an **innovative tech enabled regulated home care provide**r, is on a mission to fix this and deliver the service older people deserve and the country so desperately needs.

Combining **gamification, machine learning and automation**, we are building the Complete Care Companion, a new kind of scaleable digitally enabled home care service to support people to remain socially connected, independent and active for longer.

By creating a seamless **digital and engaging experience for Carers**, linking this to **clinically validated outcomes** for older people, and **incentivising and rewarding great performance**, all on your mobile phone, Lifted is creating the care service of the future to scale across the UK and beyond.

Lead Participant

Project Cost

Grant Offer

BETTER HOME CARE SERVICES LIMITED £1,900,562 £ 1,330,393

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