Help build a local care commons.

The Caring Sensor Community is still in the early stages. The most important work right now is listening, learning, testing assumptions, and finding people who care about the problem.

I am looking for conversations with people who understand aging, caregiving, technology, community service, privacy, open tools, or local coordination.

I would like to hear from you if you are:

  • An older adult interested in aging safely at home

  • A family caregiver

  • A professional caregiver or homecare worker

  • A homecare agency leader

  • A senior advocate

  • A social worker or care coordinator

  • A clinician or health professional

  • A technologist, maker, or open-source contributor

  • A privacy or ethics advocate

  • A civic club member

  • A local nonprofit or public agency representative

  • A funder interested in aging-in-place support

  • Someone with lived experience caring for an older adult

Possible next steps

At this stage, useful contributions might include:

  • Sharing caregiving experiences and concerns

  • Reviewing the concept and identifying risks

  • Helping define ethical guardrails

  • Suggesting practical sensor use cases

  • Identifying possible local partners

  • Hosting a small listening session

  • Helping design a small pilot

  • Reviewing language for consent and response plans

  • Exploring open-source technical options

  • Supporting documentation, outreach, or community education

A possible local pilot

A future pilot could begin small:

  1. Listen to older adults, families, caregivers, and local care workers.

  2. Identify a few real worries that modest sensing might help address.

  3. Develop consent language, response scripts, and a simple sensor kit.

  4. Test with a small number of volunteer households.

  5. Publish what worked, what failed, what it cost, and what ethical lessons were learned.

Small enough to start. Serious enough to learn.

Contact

If this idea connects with your work, your family, or your community, please reach out.

I am especially interested in conversation, critique, collaborators, and possible local pilot partners.