Couchsurfing with
Elderly Care
Çağrı Sarıgöz
Fatih İleri
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! World is getting older
! The need for nursing at home is arising
The Problem
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! Sharing Economy
Opportunities
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! Crowdfunding
Opportunities
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! Handling healthcare of lonely and/or elderly
people in need of nursing
Goals
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! Monitoring their health status
Goals
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! Enhancing their life qualities
Goals
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! Free accomodation opportunity for volunteers
Goals
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! Raise the awareness about elderly people in
need of nursing
Goals
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! Website
Components
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! Mobile Application
Components
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! Donation-Based Crowdfunding
Components
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! Volunteers (carers and observers)
Components
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! Easy patient definition and volunteer account
creation
Features
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! Patient profile page creation
◦ Informative videos about short life stories and
nursing needs
Features
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! Volunteer location processing for best
matching with the patients
Features
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! Integration with Smart Home Systems
Features
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! Reporting expenses of the needs taken care
of to the system server
Features
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! Scoring of carers by the observers
Features
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! Create patient account (via website, mobile
app)
◦ Address, diseases, needs, visiting frequency
! Create volunteer account (via mobile app)
◦ Carer or observer decision
System Workflow
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! Request location from the next carer (via
mobile app)
! Send the nearest patient information to the
carer (via mobile app)
◦ If the carer is OK with the patient, make the
assignment
◦ If not, jump to the next carer by requesting location
System Workflow (Cont’d)
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! Carer handles the healthcare
! Reports the expenses to the system (via
mobile app)
! Expenses repaid to the carer from the
crowdfunding account
System Workflow (Cont’d)
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! Evaluation of the carers by the observers (via
mobile app)
! Ranking of the carers (visible via mobile app
and website)
! A predefined number of top ranking carers
are awarded
System Workflow (Cont’d)