App of the Week – CareGiver Mobile

Published On June 15, 2015 | By Tom Huskerson | App of the Week

CargiverCaring for an aging parent or grandparent is often a task spread among multiple family members. Making sure everyone works as a team to get things done can be a tough management task. Thats why CareGiver Mobile is the App of the Week.

Making sure seniors get the proper care is becoming a common task for many Americans especially African-Americans families. The common goal is to be certain that our elderly loved ones get their medications and other needs met regularly and on time. These tasks, spread across the family, can cause confusion and stress if not properly planned out and monitored. 

Caring for elderly family members with disabilities or dementia can stress everyone. According to the Alzheimers Association African-Americans are two times more likely to develop late-onset Alzheimer’s disease than whites and less likely to have a diagnosis of their condition. 

But according to the American Psychology Association African-American family caregivers experience less stress and depression and garner greater rewards from caregiving than white caregivers. Studies also reveal that ethnic minority caregivers work harder providing more care than their white counterparts and report worse physical health than white caregivers. 

In order to manage caregiving responsibilities CareGiver Mobile provides the user with several tools that allow them to;

  • Coordinate caregiving with other family members using smartphones.
  • Create a private, secure online community with family members to share information and updates.
  • Create, manage and view upcoming caregiving tasks.
  • Assign tasks to individual family members or ask for volunteers.
  • Put your individual tasks directly into your smartphone’s calendar and receive reminders.

Proper management and keeping track of the caregiving tasks can take a lot of pressure off everyone and also allow more time for families to be families. 

CareGiver Mobile is free and available for Apple and Android.

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About The Author

Tom Huskerson Bio Born in Richmond Virginia Tom Huskerson is a military veteran who settled in California after his discharge. Tom attended Santa Barbara City College where he began his writing career as a campus reporter. He worked as an intern news reporter for the Santa Barbara News-Press writing feature stories before moving on to San Francisco. At San Francisco State University Tom studied broadcast communications and began to focus on the Internet. He completed his graduate thesis on Internet advertising. Tom was the first student to ever focus on the Internet as a graduate student at San Francisco State University. After graduation he went to work for Zona Research in California’s Silicone Valley. As a research associate Tom supported senior analyst writing on the latest developments in the Internet industry. During the dot com boom Tom worked for several web businesses as a market researcher and analyst. As a writer and researcher Tom has authored various technical works including a training program for Charles Schwab security. Other projects included professional presentations on workplace violence and hiring security contractors. Tom has also written both fiction and non-fiction works and blogging for a travel website. He has published two books of short stories and completed two novels. Tom is the owner of Scribe of Life Literature and EbonyCandle.com. Tom is not the chief editor for the OnTechStreet. com. A news and information blog that focuses on tech news for African-Americans. The blog is the result of his desire to inform the African American community of the dangers and benefits of the cyber age. In his blog Tom reports on information security, new and analysis, scams and hoaxes, legal happenings and various topics that arise from the age of information. Tom believes that technology is a necessary tool for black people and they should know what is happening. Tom writes believing that techno speak is for the professional and that valuable information can be communicated using plain language. As a result he has embraced the motto, Less Tech, More Knowledge.

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