The We+Care app helps the 500,000 working family carers in Switzerland to set up and organise a care network. For the customised coordination of long-term care providers, such as contact points, support organisations, neighbourhood help, hospital discharge services, day centres, outpatient healthcare and family doctors.
Provided by a network.
Pro Aidants
The We+Care App is provisioned by Pro Aidants, the Swiss advocacy group for family carers. Pro Aidants is a not-for-profit membership association that empowers family carers and staff of care organisations to coordinate so that humans are cared for with the best support available.
Partners
We+Tech
We Technology Association is a Swiss age-tech startup that supports regional ecosystems with software platforms to deliver ageing services in a coordinated way so that people can live independently in their own homes for as long as possible.
Research
The extended team of designers, software developers, researchers, social workers, caregivers and communication experts are improving the quality of life at the end of life.
The research project is funded with 1.5 million euros from the EU's AAL innovation funding programme, which is partly financed by the Swiss innovation agency Innosuisse.
Partners
Investment with social impact
We+Care is a proud alumni of the Samsung for Impact Ageing Society Accelerator with the BlueLion Foundation, the Zurich incubator for ICT start-ups and SEIF, the Swiss pioneering organisation for social entrepreneurship.
Learn more about the opportunity to invest in the informal care sector.