Family & Friends
"Your system... gives my dad the ability to stay connected to those he
loves. He can reach out and connect with his family with the touch of a
button and feel that he is still part of the family even though he is not at
home anymore."
—Lisa Jimenez, Lakewood, CO
Now there's a better way to keep in touch with elders and your extended online family. CaringFamily makes it simple to share email, digital pictures, Web content, and more, with 'offline' elders—no PC required.
With CaringFamily's innovative new service, you communicate in familiar ways—email, the Web, digital cameras, camera phones—while your elders send and receive messages using pencil and paper. Without keyboards, monitors, spam, viruses, or other PC challenges.
The system provides a range of important benefits to families and the seniors they can finally include in their everyday digital conversations:
- One button connects families: CaringFamily's design for both its service rests on a simple idea: busy families and elders won't stand for added complexity in their lives. Both the CaringFamily 'digital mailbox' appliance and the online service that powers it feature only one button to accomplish most tasks, and elders, in particular, perform virtually every task with paper and pencil.
- Online 'safe harbor' creates peace of mind: Today's Internet-connected PC exposes vulnerable seniors to unacceptable threats to personal privacy and security. CaringFamily's revolutionary design creates a private online environment that blocks outsiders and counters familiar Internet threats like spam, viruses, spyware, phishing schemes, and more.
- A helping hand for enhanced family dialog: CaringFamily's system acts as an 'amplifier' for family communications, enabling—and actively promoting—more, and more effective, regular dialog with elders. Studies show that more regular communication yields important health and wellness benefits for elders, and helps ease the anxiety their families feel when stymied in attempts to adequately stay in touch.
- Sharing the load: CaringFamily's system, by allowing family members to work together online in the support of their parents and grandparents, introduces a powerful new tool in relieving the primary caregiver's burden—a tremendous 'invisible' cost to families, their employers, and many others.