Gerocare - Lagos, Nigeria

GeroCare is a revolutionary cloud-based platform that empowers African families to provide quality home-based eldercare for their parents or elderly loved ones. By leveraging the traditional family values of adult children caring for their parents and modern technology, GeroCare makes it easy to subscribe for regular doctor home visits and home medical care for their parents. The process of enrolment initiates the matching of the parents or elderly loved ones to a doctor who is in proximity and who will ensure monthly physical doctor visits take place in the home or any convenient location. The family can pay for any required tests and drugs via the app for direct delivery to the beneficiary. The app also provides appropriately worded reports on each visit and the adult child who makes  

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the payments (and any other whitelisted members of the family) receives regular information as to the health status of their parents or elderly loved ones with their consent. This system is easily scalable and replicable across medical specialties, cities, and even across countries, delivering hospitals without buildings and disrupting medical service delivery as we know it. GeroCare has been in operation for five years and is now transforming the way we provide eldercare, allowing elderly beneficiaries to interact with their doctor at home and get all their medical needs delivered to their doorstep.