FAQ

Features and Benefits

What can you do with the SimpleC solution?

You and your loved one can reminisce over their interests as well as current and past events in their life. This facilitates socialization and improves the quality of family visits. With SocialC, seniors can even more actively reach out to family and friends, communicate via the internet, and train their memory for names and faces.

The care team has personalized interventions at their fingertips to remind your loved one about upcoming community events, specific individual activities, give them a heads-up before care events, and redirect behaviors if necessary.

How does the SimpleC solution help engage individuals, for example to participate in activities?

The SimpleC solution cues seniors for activities, reminding them explicitly about upcoming events. Individuals are also subtly cued and motivated, for example, with delicious pictures of food at meal time shown on the Companion or Community Area Devices.

The SimpleC solution also creates opportunities for conversations in the common areas. For example, individuals can be spotlighted on Community Area Devices to help introduce them to the community. Or a community may spotlight personal interests to spark conversation.

Can you keep couples and families together for longer?

With the SimpleC solution it will be easier to care for a loved one.  Storyboards playing on the Companion aid starting a conversation.  Personalized interventions delivered through the Companion can also help completing daily tasks such as remembering to take medications, when to eat, and other events of daily life.

What is the SimpleC solution?

The SimpleC solution for families uses behavioral technology for seniors to share their life stories and interests, communicate, and be reminded about upcoming events and care activities. Memory and behavioral support can flexibly accommodate the range of needs from individuals living independently to individuals with various degrees of depression or stage associated with dementia.

Who uses the SimpleC solution?

Seniors, their families and friends actively use storyboards and SocialC via the Companion when connecting to each other, their social circle, and the care team. The care team also accesses interventions to remind or prepare residents about upcoming events and provide care.

How do we use the SimpleC solution?

The Companion has a touch screen. So all you need to do is to touch the screen and select from the choices that you see.

How do we know that the SimpleC solution is working?

The specific effects depend on each individual, but you should see an improvement in the communication between you and your loved one. Successes with individuals included increased mood, increased appetite, reduced agitation in the later afternoon, or less wandering.

How much does it cost?

Please contact your community manager for pricing. If SimpleC is not available in a long-term care community, please contact us for more information.

Is the Companion more than just a digital picture frame?

Absolutely! The storyboards that are played on the Companion or Community Area Devices are managed by us, consistently updated, and formatted. Above all, the storyboard is a toolset for improved quality of life.

We spend time with each individual to chronicle their life story and identify individual needs for support. We carefully select and test the media that we include to ensure that they have a positive effect. The timing of the media is just as critical as the selection, and we have extensive experience with both.

How is SocialC different from a brain game?

Brain games are generic, and SocialC is personalized. SocialC is a simple-to-use user interface for seniors with the goal of facilitating social interaction via the internet. Strengthening senior’s memory for names and faces is part of SocialC. The important difference to brain games is that the names and faces trained with SocialC are those of persons relevant to seniors’ lives.

Installation, or, how to put the system into place

What do we need to get started?

Talk to you community manager and we will get you set up.

What will you do to get us started?

To chronicle life history and interests, determine schedules and specific needs, our care specialists will work with you and your loved one, the care team, and existing records. Once we put the system in place, we will show you how to use it, and then return regularly to ensure everything is working well and answer your questions.

Although we will get you started, you are welcome to participate and get involved in the process as much as you like or have time for.

How long will it take to get us started?

We can get you set up in two weeks.

When is the SimpleC installation complete?

The SimpleC solution is constantly evolving and changing because we keep adding new media. To ensure maximum efficacy, we will visit regularly and ensure that everything is running smoothly.

Support

My parents and I do not use a computer very often.

This is not a problem. You can interact with the device by touching the screen, and the interaction is learned very quickly.

Who supports the Companion? What can we expect?

We offer an ongoing service. We have care specialists with a psychology background who are industry-trained and trained on the SimpleC method that will visit regularly and ensure everything is working well.

How do we sign up?

Simply contact your community manager and we can get started. If your community does not yet have SimpleC, please contact us for more information.

Company

Where does the name SimpleC come from? 

It comes from the idea of a "simple computer." We wanted to develop a technology that was simple to use, without barriers, a keyboard or mouse, and that benefitted seniors to support them in their cognition and community.