Lively Is An Activity Sharing Platform That Helps You Keep Tabs On Your Independently Living Parents Or Grandparents

There are approximately 11.3 million elderly Americans that live independently in their own homes. Although many seniors choose to live by themselves without any assistance, it can be a challenge for their children to ensure their parents are doing alright. Lively is an innovative service that helps you keep tabs on the routine activities of your parents or grandparents. For those of us who have parents that choose to live by themselves, phone conversations quickly spiral into a form of parent-sitting. A phone conversation becomes a checklist of things you want to make sure your parents have done. You ask them they?ve taken their pills, if they?re eating well, or if they?ve been outside today. ?It?s a very long list of things you have to go through,? says David Glickman, COO of Lively, ?and it can end up eating a lot time for any meaningful conversation about what?s actually going on in their lives.? What Lively aims to do is to bring families closer together with a service that offers two different products: LivelyHub and LivelyGram. LivelyHub is a non invasive way of keeping tabs on the day-to-day activities of your parents or grandparents. There?s a wireless hub, which resembles a friendly looking router, and six passive sensors that connect to the hub using cellular technology. LivelyHub doesn?t require you to have an existing cellular data plan of any kind. In fact, it doesn?t even need an existing wireless internet connection. It?s a little like Amazon?s Whispernet?in that regard, which allows you to purchase and download books on Kindles over 3G data without needing to sign up for a cellular data plan. All you have to do is plug the LivelyHub into a power socket, and sensors start collecting data automatically. The sensors are put in places all around the house that your parents or grandparents interact with as a part of their daily routine. For example, you could place the sensors on refrigerator doors, on kitchen cabinets, on a pillbox, or a key chain. These sensors adapt to and learn the day-to-day routine of your parents or grandparents. There?s a tiny accelerometer inside each sensor, and it simply pings the hub whenever the refrigerator door the sensor is attached to is opened, and so on and so forth. It can?t track your location or do anything like that. If the daily routine of your parents or grandparents seems to

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