Care+

The view on display when there are no caregivers providing support to a client.
Part of the view that a caregiver will see when they start their shift.
The view that a caregiver will see during their shift.
Part of the view that a caregiver will see at the end of their shift.

Inspiration

People with disabilities often rely on at-home carers to support their health and well-being. Currently, care providers utilise physical notes to pass information between shift workers; furthermore, they also take a manual approach when passing updates to their client’s family. This is not an effective form of communication as notes can be lost and families left feeling out of the information loop. Effective communication is essential to building and maintaining trust between the client, care staff, and families involved. This is a real problem that is faced by the relatives of people making up the Cyber Insecurity team.

What it does

Care+ digitises communication between caregivers, clients, and their families. It is designed to be setup in the abode of a person requiring at-home care and to constantly be on display, showing important information to assist caregivers. It provides important details to care staff at the start of their shift so they can quickly and easily recognise the needs of their client. Additionally, care staff can see updates and notes left by other staff since their last shift with a particular client. Care staff are also able to provide well-formatted, routine updates to the client’s family. Additionally, the family of the client can update appointment and daily task information to quickly relay new instructions to all the different caregivers of their loved one.

How we built it

We built this web-app using a Flask framework in conjunction with an SQLite database, and a front-end made from Bootstrap components based on designs developed in Figma. We divided the roles of the team up into: two people on front-end design and implementation, two people on back-end database design and data access, and the fifth team-member acted as support and a liaison between the real users of Care+ and us.

Challenges we ran into

The major challenge to overcome was learning new frameworks and techniques. We chose to build the app in a way that provided the most experience in topics of interest to us.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

How we collaborated as a team. Quickly understanding and implementing before unseen tools and technologies.

What we learned

We chose the technologies we used based on what we wanted to learn. Flask was new to us as was many the concepts behind front-end design and implementation.

What's next for Care+

Some of us are going to continue to work on it following the end of the hackathon. We all truly believe in the idea and the vision that has been created. We will polish our work, implementing more features to support the needs of caregivers, their clients, and the families of clients.