At the Heart of a Heathy Aging Community

Piali De, CEO

One of the goals of the Ibis Program is to foster communities that support World Health Organization's (WHO) definition of healthy aging:  “the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables wellbeing in older age”.

As does WHO, we interpret functional ability as having the capabilities that enable people to be and do what they value. To us, maintaining functional ability means aging in an environment that provide:

• Support for taking care of one’s own health,
• Timely access to health care, preferably at home,
• Encouragements to be mobile, and
• Opportunities to build and maintain relationships and to contribute to society

Our healthy aging environment is created through a partnership of multiple community organizations and Senscio. The essential community partners are: housing providers, social service providers, and healthcare providers. We are actively fostering health aging communities in Maine and New Hampshire, supporting hundreds of residents. If you are a community organization providing home and health care services in Maine or New Hampshire and would like to join this healthy aging movement, please contact us at info@sensciosystems.com.
For those of you who are new readers of these blog posts, the Ibis Program is a self-management support program for individuals with multiple chronic conditions who need support for self-care. When individuals join the program, they become Members of the Ibis community. Members receive an interactive device that guides their self-care. Members are also assigned a Member Advocate who supports the Member with staying on track with self-management. The Ibis Program is powered by a unique artificial intelligence (AI) that provides daily self-care guidance to our Members.  When the AI hits a roadblock, a person who we call a Member Advocate takes up the responsibility to address the health or social challenges faced by our Members. The population that we are most focused on is socio-economically disadvantaged seniors: the dually eligible population receiving benefits from both Medicare and Medicaid.