Our population is aging. According to the Urban Institute:
“The number of Americans ages 65 and older will more than double over the next 40 years, reaching 80 million in 2040. The number of adults ages 85 and older, the group most often needing help with basic personal care, will nearly quadruple between 2000 and 2040.”
And the aging population continues to drive national healthcare spending.
If we’re ever going to reign in our healthcare spending, then we will need to find ways to take better care of our aging population.
According to the team from Blooming Health, medical care is only part of the solution. We need to connect people, especially those from underserved communities, with the resources that will help them thrive. That means addressing their food, housing, safety, and security needs. And it means finding ways to give them meaning and purpose.
That’s where Blooming Health comes in. They exist to empower healthy aging in place. They help community-based organizations (CBOs) align older adults with the resources they need to thrive. Their technology is designed to meet the elderly where they are and strives to remove friction from the process at every step.
On this episode, we explore what it takes to meet older adults where they are, speak to them in the language they prefer, and track results in a way that enables the health system to appropriately invest in their well-being.
Blooming Health
Blooming Health powers healthy aging in place by enabling community-based, aging service providers to remotely engage underserved older adults on their health and social needs, in a personalized and continuous manner. Our engagement solution is used by a growing network of 10+ community-based organizations (CBOs) across NY to flexibly communicate with older adults in one-click via automated text, phone calls, or emails and in multiple languages. Our solution has driven up to 3X increase in social engagement among older adults and reduced ~2 weeks in time to social care.
- Demo video: https://gobloominghealth.com/demo-video/
- Customer Stories/Impact: https://gobloominghealth.com/older-adults-at-home-thrive-via-blooming-health/
- Website: www.gobloominghealth.com
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoBlooming
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blooming-health-co
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoBloomingHealth/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gobloominghealth/
Kavitha Gnanasambandan, PhD
Kavitha Gnanasambandan, PhD is the Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Blooming Health. She applies her diverse experiences from biomedical sciences, healthcare consulting, and digital health to enabling healthy aging for all. Kavitha’s research was focused on novel drug design for difficult to treat blood cancers. Through healthcare consulting, she helped bring novel technologies to patients and advised 30+ clients on innovative business strategies. Most recently, she led the commercial strategy for Noona, a digital health product to support cancer patients. Volunteering with NYC community-based aging service providers inspired Kavitha to co-found Blooming Health.
Naman Gupta
Naman Gupta is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Blooming Health. He is a digital transformation expert who has worked with dozens of enterprise organizations in his career building industry-leading products and platforms. He is passionate about solving the broken health-care system and has spent the past five years working with companies large and small developing innovative patient-focused solutions.
Nima Roohi, PhD
Nima Roohi, PhD is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Blooming Health. He comes from a background in AI and Data Science. He started a business before and has led several key global operations in different industries including healthcare. Having first hand experience as a caregiver and understanding the challenges older adults and their families face inspired Nima to start Blooming Health. In his free time, Nima enjoys running, doing Yoga, reading non-fiction books, and of course good food.
Resources
- If you are interested in learning more about community-based aging services for you or your loved ones, please check out these resources:
- ElderCare Locator: https://eldercare.acl.gov/Public/Resources/Topic/Caregiver.aspx
- National Council on Aging (NCOA) offers helpful resources and practical tips on healthy aging for older adults and caregivers: https://www.ncoa.org/page/about-us
- If you are a health or social care provider planning partnerships to address social determinants of health (SDOH), please check out this ROI calculator: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/roi-calculator-app
- Episode 82: Addressing SDOH One Factor at a Time w/ Dr. Virginia Gurley
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