Currently 156 million people in Europe are over 65 years of age, and the vast majority of them live in their own homes. In Spain, and in general in the rest of European countries, three-quarters of healthcare spending (4.8% of GDP) is dedicated to serving our elderly.
These are some of the challenges related to the management and care of the elderly:
Existing technological solutions to ensure aging at home are not well adapted to the needs of older people.
There are great shortcomings in the care and clinical follow-up of the elderly at home.
Less than half of the patients adhere to their respective treatments, which represents a loss of 12,500 million euros per year.
As a result, there are hospital readmissions and decompensations that could be avoided.
Tucuvi is a virtual assistant that uses Artificial Intelligence and voice technology to continuously monitor the elderly and chronic patients who reside in their own homes.
Through calls to the landline or mobile phone, the assistant is able to monitor and accompany these people, either to remind them to take their medication, give them any type of assistance or simply see that they are well and that in no need of any kind of help.
Tucuvi's solution is a practical and comfortable way for patients, especially older people, to have a follow-up through understandable technology, saving the health system a lot of effort and money.
4.099
USERS WITH CONTINUOUS CARE
10.245
ALERT SITUATIONS DETECTED
575.034 €
SAVED TO THE HEALTH PUBLIC SYSTEM
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“Tucuvi's objective is that the elderly can enjoy a continuous monitoring service in their homes, regardless of their technological capacity ”.
MARÍA GONZÁLEZ
The founders of Tucuvi are María González and Marcos Rubio, two young biomedical engineers with great social concern.
María had the idea for the startup when she was working at a multinational medical device company. In this environment, he realized that much of the innovation in continuous monitoring was created for young people, but solutions aimed at the older population were still out of date. So he decided to create a solution that would ensure that all elders could also enjoy "continuous monitoring of their health from their own home and benefit from technology just like the rest of us."