Mobile app for remote elderly care via local human assistance and financial incentives

我们的移动应用程序允许孩子们找到志愿者和与父母关系密切的非正式照顾者，进行简单的任务，如运送食品杂货、药品、日常面对面互动，并在需要时向NHS、警察等发出紧急警报。该应用程序在孩子、家长和志愿者之间连续实时地三方连接，以协调此类活动。志愿者可以为多个老年家庭的多项任务进行投标和计划。开放银行平台用于实时审批儿童向志愿者支付的任务。孩子和家长都可以为每项完成的任务对志愿者进行评分。重要说明这款应用的特点是，它可以被其他用户使用，比如照顾肢体残疾的人或个体户、单身父母、在家工作的年轻人等。随着新冠肺炎的推出和在家工作的新常态，既有大量的用户愿意使用服务，也有大量的志愿者愿意提供此类服务(一个用户在不同的时间既可以充当服务的接受者，也可以充当服务的提供者)。

Our mobile app allows children to find volunteers and informal-carers close to their parents to conduct simple tasks such as delivery of groceries, medicines, daily face-to-face interactions and emergency alerting of NHS, Police etc if required. The app is continuously and real time connected three-way between the kids, parents and volunteers to coordinate such activities. Volunteers can bid and plan for multiple tasks across multiple elderly households. The open-banking platform is used to approve payments from kids to volunteers in real time for the tasks. Both the kids and the parents can rate the volunteers for each task performed.EXTENSION FOR IMPACTThe features of the app are such that it can be used by other users like carer of a physically disabled person or for self employed, single working parents, young adults working from home etc. There are both a large set of users willing to avail services as well as a large set of volunteers willing to provide such services (a user can act as both service receiver as well as service provider at different times) in the wake of Covid-19 and the new normalcy of working from home.