GrandCare Showcases Assistive Technologies at OPEN MINDS Technology & Analytics Institute

GrandCare will be exhibiting and speaking at the OPEN MINDS Technology & Analytics Institute October 21–23, 2025. Executive attendees will be immersed at the forefront of technological innovation for specialty populations throughout three days of interactive learning opportunities.

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Stop by our “photo” booth and add your photo. We’ll also be giving away a cool neck fan and other goodies.

Booth Hours
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 from 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Wednesday, October 22, 2025: 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Thursday, October 23, 2025: 7:30 am – 2:00 pm

Reimbursements for Assistive Technologies in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, like many states, has a pathway for agencies to receive reimbursement for assistive technologies such as GrandCare through Medicaid waivers and self-directed programs.

What is GrandCare?

GrandCare is a touchscreen-based remote supports and monitoring technology that:

  • Empowers individuals to self-support and build independence
  • Enables agencies to serve more clients without adding staff
  • Lets you set up your own remote supports — no outsourcing required
  • Creates new revenue streams while reducing caregiving costs

Our partners have found that GrandCare pays for itself almost immediately — saving money, expanding services, and helping clients learn new tasks with greater self-direction. Many states are already funding GrandCare through Medicaid waivers, and Pennsylvania has similar opportunities for reimbursement.

Smarter Care, Lower Costs: Showcasing The GrandCare Touchscreen & Sensor Platform

See GrandCare System’s Laura Mitchell, CEO, and Scott Feldstein, Director of Training & Onboarding, explain how GrandCare technology aims to reduce the staffing costs for disability and the aging population. The touchscreen platform assists with cognitive needs, such as checklists, medication reminders, instructional videos, and more. The technology collects data through motion and telehealth sensors and alerts a remote support team. Learn more about how GrandCare Systems is reducing onsite caregiver hours, enabling independence, and cutting costs on staffing. See you at the Smart Home Expo in Commonwealth A at 3:00pm Wednesday, October 22.

 

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Time to Power Up Your Remote Supports, Kansas!

Do you want to power up your remote supports? Maybe your agency has already started incorporating technology that allows you to provide support remotely. Or maybe you’ve just started learning about the remote support model and wonder how it all works and what options are available. If so, we want to help you learn more!

GrandCare Systems will be exhibiting and speaking at InterHab’s Power Up! Conference this October, and we can’t wait to show you how remote supports can not only provide greater independence for people with disabilities, but also allows you to support more people without more staff.

Join GrandCare and ShiftAbility for a breakout session on how to provide your OWN remote supports to serve more clients, save money and improve client independence. See us on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 3:00pm in Konza Prairie C.

Power Up! is a dynamic, three-day annual conference dedicated to inspiring, educating, and empowering professionals who work to support individuals with disabilities. This event brings together leaders, innovators, and change-makers in the field of IDD services, creating a unique platform for sharing knowledge, fostering collaboration, and advancing inclusive practices.

InterHab Power Up! 2025 Booth Hours

Wednesday, October 8
12:00-1:00pm & 2:00-3:00pm

Thursday, October 9
8:00-8:45am & 11:30am-1:00pm

About GrandCare’s Remote Support Platform

The GrandCare touchscreen is a stationary, internet-connected device that a person with disabilities uses to receive some or all of their support for daily living. GrandCare pairs with a large variety of remote support devices such as motion detectors, door sensors and cameras. Information from these sensors are recorded and can be accessed remotely through the caregiver portal via a computer, laptop, or smartphone. Caregivers can be notified if something is amiss. You set the alert rules so you’re only notified when something is unusual (for example, motion is detected by the door sensor at 3am.)

GrandCare provides the remote support tools. You provide the remote support. No outsourcing required!

Managed Alerts screenHIPAA-compliant video chat allows for face-to-face communication with caregivers. A check-in button allows the user to check in with staff.

Data from Bluetooth health devices such as blood pressure devices, pulse oximeters, thermometers and scales can be viewed through the caregiver portal, and parameters set to send notifications when the data indicates intervention is needed.

GrandCare Systems’ technology also enables individuals to self-support through ADL and medication prompts, and provides entertainment tailored to their interest through videos, photos, games, and more.

To Do Reminder - mailFor more than 20 years, GrandCare has been providing remote support tools and assistive technology, and we’re always improving our platform and providing more features as technology continues to advance. We live in a very exciting time for remote supports and have been thrilled to see it embraced by more staff and clients every year.

If you’d like to experience our technology hands-on, please stop at our booth. We’d be happy to answer any questions you have about how to integrate the remote support model into your agency.

We hope to see you there! Follow the conversation on social media: #interhabpowerup2025

GrandCare booth

Power Up Session ShiftAbility GrandCare

Assistive Technology, Remote Supports & GrandCare Goodness at CT Tech Tools for Life 2025

GrandCare is headed to Connecticut for this year’s Tech Tools for Life conference. The conference includes informative panels, breakout sessions, demos, networking, and an exhibit hall.

During Breakout Session 3E, join GrandCare’s Laura Mitchell and ShiftAbility’s Brian Hart for an educational session on setting up technology for self support and remote support.

Tech-infused Smart Living: Setting up Assistive Technology and Remote Supports. Speakers: Laura Mitchell, CEO GrandCare Systems, Brian Hart, CEO ShiftAbility.Providers are facing staffing shortages and high turnover while the number of people requiring support is increasing. The Pew Research center reports up to 1 in 4 Adults face some type of disability in America today. The answer isn’t to recruit harder, it’s to work smarter. And when you’re armed with high-tech, high-touch products, you can! In this session we’ll explore the spectrum of technology options from medication management to fall detection to smart touchscreens and smart stoves. We’ll talk about Smart Tech-enabled Living, a new model of value-based care that is saving organizations real dollars, improving independence and reducing onsite caregiving hours without sacrificing safety. What should you expect? How do you pay for it and when do you start seeing the return on investment?

Tech-infused Smart Living: Setting up Assistive Technology and Remote Supports
Monday, June 9
2:30pm – 3:30pm
Paragon Room (Home 2)

GrandCare will be participating in Tech Tools for Life’s expo. See us at our booth for fun giveaways, and to get your hands on GrandCare technology. GrandCare is a stationary touchscreen appliance that can be placed on a flat surface or mounted on a wall. The system can help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities achieve new levels of independence by dramatically–and safely–reducing in-person support hours. It includes ADL reminders, on-demand videos, activity alerts, HIPAA-compliant video calls, games, community calendars and so much more.

Tech Tools for Life Exhibit Hall Schedule
Monday, June 9 | 11:30-12:00 & 2:00-2:30
Tuesday, June 10 | 11:30-12:00 & 2:00-2:30

Follow the conference on social media: #CTTechTools25.

Can’t attend but want to learn more about remote supports? Schedule a free consultation with GrandCare. We’d love to show you our platform and answer your questions.

We Make a Great Pair: GrandCare Joins 2025 CCLN Annual Leadership Conference

The CCLN Leadership Conference 2025, “Staying Strong Together – Advocacy, Hope & Resilience” takes place April 16-18 at The Dana on Mission Bay.

CCLN 2025 GrandCare booth 8Stop by our booth for a fun wine tasting and candy pairing! Plus, we’ll be giving away a beach bag bundle full of goodies.

We have some exciting news! GrandCare is nearing the end of the process of being vendorized with Alta Regional Center – this means we will be reimbursed in many counties in the state of California! Stay tuned for more info.

CCLN Exhibit Hall Schedule

Thursday, April 17, 8:00-4:15
Friday, April 18, 8:00-3:30

While you’re at our booth, we invite you to explore our remote support system. GrandCare is a stationary touchscreen appliance that can be placed on a flat surface or mounted on a wall. A person may receive some or all of their support remotely through the GrandCare platform.

Top GrandCare Features

  • Delivers reminders for ADLs, medications and calendar appointments
  • Provides multi-step video instruction for complex tasks
  • Displays photos, videos, and games
  • HIPAA-compliant video calls
  • Connects with motion and door sensors
  • Connects with wireless telehealth devices
  • Remote and onsite caregiving tools
  • Motion detection notifications and compliance alerts for caregivers
  • Reporting

One of the best features? Every GrandCare touchscreen is completely customizable to the user’s needs and interests!

Watch our Day in the Life video to see how GrandCare is integrated into someone’s life, providing support AND independence.

Can’t attend but want to learn more about remote supports? Schedule a free consultation with GrandCare. We’d love to show you our platform and answer your questions.

GrandCare Slated to Present at NASP Annual Conference with ShiftAbility and Showcase GrandCare in Action

A 2025 NASP Conference Breakout Session

Attending NASP? So are we! Hosted by the Nebraska Association of Service Providers, the NASP Conference will be March 24–25, 2025, at the Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln, Nebraska.

We invite you to visit our director of sales and accounts, Katya Kowal at our booth to see GrandCare live in action, plus register for a special give away. Plan to attend our breakout session: “Technology and Remote Supports: The How, the Why, the ROI” March 25 at 2:30pm CT in Ballroom B presented by our CEO, Laura Mitchell and Brian Hart, CEO of ShiftAbility.

Technology and Remote Supports: The How, the Why, the ROI with GrandCare and ShiftAbility

Although it is often associated with the military, the term “force multiplier” simply means something that allows a small group of people to do something that would ordinarily take a larger number of people to do. Smart home and touchscreen-based technologies can be YOUR force multiplier, allowing your organization to support more people without hiring more staff. AND your clients will enjoy a more self-directed, independent lifestyle.

This session will discuss:

  • Who is a good candidate for remote supports
  • Choosing which technologies
  • Which supports can be provided in an automated way
  • Which supports can be provided remotely
  • Staff & family buy-in
  • How to get started
  • Who pays (NE waiver changes)

GrandCare Systems is a touchscreen and sensor-based technology platform designed to improve independence and enable remote supports for individuals living with disabilities and older adults.

ShiftAbility is a Cincinnati based agency focused on assisting I/DD agencies in transforming from typical caregiving models to technology-first models of service.

To learn more, visit the Nebraska Association of Service Providers Conference website.

Can’t attend but want to learn more about remote supports? Schedule a free consultation with GrandCare. We’d love to show you our platform and answer your questions.

Profitability in the Connected Home: A CONNECTIONS Summit Panel at CES 2025

GrandCare CEO, Laura Mitchell, will speak on Parks Associates’ CONNECTIONS Summit panel: “Profitability in the Connected Home” at CES 2025. This session addresses the business models and revenue streams driving profitability in the connected home market.

CONN Summit Speaker- Laura Mitchell

Profitability in the Connected Home

In the session, Laura Mitchell, Elizabeth Parks of Parks Associates, Jacob Alamat of Silicon Labs, Travis Hockersmith of VIZIO, Melissa Andresko of Lutron Electronics, and Agnes Lorenz of Zooz will discuss consumer trends, subscription services, and monetization strategies.

Profitability in the Connected Home
Date: Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM PT
Location: Venetian Hotel, Level 4, Lando 4304

About CONNECTIONS Summit 2025

The 19th annual CONNECTIONS Summit at CES will be held at the Venetian Hotel, on Level 4, Lando 4304, in Las Vegas on January 7.

CONNECTIONS Summit is an annual event hosted by international research firm Parks Associates at CES in Las Vegas focusing on new trends, emerging technology and standards, new business models, and partnerships impacting the connected home.

Attending CES 2025 and want to attend this session? Click here.

Need to register for CES 2025? Register here.

Follow #CONNSummit25 and #CES25 on social media for the latest about this event!

Technology First Session at the 39th Annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference

With staffing shortages plaguing the nation, I/DD and mental health agencies are eager to transform their services into a technology-first model. So, what now? How do you get started? Which technology should you use? How do you staff and integrate it into your existing service model? How long will it take to start saving money?

Laura Mitchell, CEO at GrandCare, and Brian Hart of ShiftAbility will walk attendees through the process during this year’s Annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. Learn how agencies have used technology tools and staffing strategies to run their remote support services while reducing costs and improving outcomes.

The Technology First Transformation – Are You Ready?
Thursday, March 21, 2024 – 3:20pm PST
Elite 1-3, Anaheim Marriott

GrandCare is a remote monitoring and remote support platform that helps people with disabilities live more independently. And it helps agencies support more people without more staff, thus helping alleviate staffing shortages. GrandCare is a touchscreen-based solution that has automated medication and ADL prompts, video instruction, and one-touch video calls to remote support. The GrandCare platform uses motion and door sensors to alert remote support that something is amiss. It is also a fully featured telehealth platform so people can better manage their chronic health conditions. And GrandCare also has engaging games and entertainment that is customizable to suit everyone’s taste and interests.

ShiftAbility is a transformation consulting group that assists agencies in making a shift to technology-first using GrandCare and the Smart Living Model.

GrandCare and ShiftAbility will also be exhibiting. You can find us at booth 415 in the Marquis Ballroom.

Exhibit Hall Hours

  • Tuesday, March 19 from 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Preview Night exclusive to registered conference attendees only)
  • Wednesday, March 20 from 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
  • Thursday, March 21 from 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
  • Friday, March 22 from 9:30 am – 1:30 pm

Anaheim Marriott
700 West Convention Way
Anaheim, California 92802
Reservations: 877-622-3056
Hotel: 714-750-8000

Follow #CSUNATC24 on social media for the latest.

WCBDD Virtual Virtual Technology Showcase

The Warren County Board of Developmental Disabilities in Ohio will be hosting a Virtual Technology Showcase. It will feature presentations from a variety of remote support providers, assistive technology vendors and device companies, who will be explaining their services and demonstrating their products.

Scott Feldstein, director of US sales at GrandCare, will be introducing the GrandCare platform at 12pm ET (11am CT / 9am PT) on Thursday, December 7, 2023. This online event is free and can be accessed via Zoom.

ZOOM LINK FOR EVENT: https://bit.ly/3QsmgTK
Meeting ID: 829 5006 3014

WCBDD Virtual Tech Showcase

If you would like to reach out to Scott before or after the presentation, send us an email.

GrandCare Presents at Smart Home Expo: Innovative Technologies For The Consumer in Philadelphia this October

Join us for the first-ever Smart Home Expo on October 26, 2023, hosted by OPEN MINDS. As part of the OPEN MINDS Technology and Analytics Institute, this day-long event is dedicated to recent advancements in smart home technology that support independent and community-based living for persons with disabilities and older adults. The expo will feature innovative smart home technologies -both general and specialized–used today by health and human service agencies to support independence in community-based living.

Our own director of U.S. sales, Scott Feldstein, and our director of implementation & compliance, Hans Cabrera, will be presenting at 3:15pm ET. We will discuss issues in the disability/aging services and how technology like GrandCare can address those concerns. Issues like:

  • People with I/DD deserve as much independence as they can get, and receiving all the help they need through in-person support isn’t very independent.
  • States seemingly cannot fully fund the need for disability support services.
  • Even if the money was available, where would the workforce come from? There is a nationwide staff shortage crisis in every type of in-home care, including disability support.

About GrandCare

GrandCare Systems aims to reduce the staffing costs for disability and the aging population. Their touchscreen platform assists with cognitive needs, such as checklists, medication reminders, instructional videos, and more. The technology collects data through motion and telehealth sensors and alerts a remote support team. Learn more about how GrandCare Systems are reducing onsite caregiver hours, enabling independence, and cutting costs on staffing.

Scott Feldstein at Open Minds 2023

Han Cabrera at Open Minds 2023

More info at OPEN MINDS.

Disability Care Staffing Solutions: How Enabling Technologies Are Solving the Provider Shortage

While many disability service providers struggle with staffing shortages, some are finding solutions to mitigate the problem, cutting costs and increasing independence and outcomes for their residents using enabling technologies.

We recently hosted an engaging discussion with three leaders from organizations utilizing enabling technologies such as GrandCare during our webinar, Combatting DSP Staffing Shortages with Assistive Technology. Our guest speakers included Brian Hart, the COO of LADD and the CEO of ShiftAbility, and Heather Weitz and Christine Gilbertson of Wisconsin-based provider, Opportunity Inc.

LADD is an agency in Ohio that, four years ago, wanted to use technology-enabled supports to change the way they delivered services. As they looked to solve a staff shortage, they devised a Smart Living model. “The Smart Living model is not just a piece of technology or software, it’s a new way of delivering services using technology first, value-added supports, a way we assess staff, cultural methodology of inclusive services, and a whole bunch of different models.” Out of that bore ShiftAbility, a consulting arm, as a way to share how to implement these models for other organizations.

A smart home uses technology like GrandCare touchscreens, sensors, health devices and med dispensers that work as a support system and other home technologies like smart refrigerators and stoves.

“There’s never going to be enough people to provide the support. If you want to provide more supports, you have to do it a different way.” Brian Hart.

Opportunity Inc. is a nonprofit organization in Wisconsin that provides supports in AFH (adult family home) settings and community supportive living settings. Heather and Christina work in the community supportive living program.

“GrandCare has given us a way to actually implement self-sufficiency. Instead of just having staff come in, teach them something and 20 minutes after we walk about the door they completely forget everything that we went through, with GrandCare we’re able to upload videos and add reminders. This has been a huge way that GrandCare has helped us get to the independent living skills and maintain those independent living skills,” said Christina.

A GrandCare system is a remote monitoring and remote support platform on a stationary 17-inch touchscreen that can be set on a countertop or mounted on a wall. The touchscreen can deliver cognitive assists in the form of reminders for ADLs, medication, calendar appointments and much more. It can connect with motion sensors in the home and health devices such as pulse oximeters. Notification rules, simple if-then statements, can be customized for each individual and their support team. The touchscreen provides secure video calls, plus the system includes games, live radio and other entertainment features.

“It helps with staffing as well. We have some clients in their own homes that just need us to go check that they took their medications. Now they can mark off that they did it, and if we need a visual we can video chat instead of having somebody go over. Some of them like that because they want their privacy,” said Heather.

Christina added that many of their high functioning clients use a button on the touchscreen to check in for the night, which sends a notification to the staff that they’re safe at home, and that allows the staff to focus on the people who they need to be physically present for.

“They like that they feel more independent. Instead of coming to us all the time they can go on to their own GrandCare system and look for their schedules, see if they have doctor appointments or when the staff might be coming, and what they’re going to be doing with staff that day.” Heather Weitz

What’s the ROI on Assistive Technology?

The first LADD smart home was part of a two-year study by Xavier University. Researchers set out to measure “occupational performance” (the ability to do everyday tasks without help), resident satisfaction, and the cost of care in the new smart home setting. The results were remarkable. LADD was able to safely reduce direct caregiving hours by an astonishing 75%. This had a profound impact on the cost of care. Prior to GrandCare and remote monitoring technologies, the cost of supporting these individuals was $5,260 per week. Supportive technologies slashed the support costs by over 50% to only $2,607 per week.

“The technology ROI is less than nine months. It’s getting even faster now as we get more efficient,” said Brian. “Each year we’re able to do more with the same amount of resources.”

Learn More

Want to learn more about the GrandCare technology, choosing residents, setting up tech, staff training and funding? You can view the recording of our webinar.

“The big issues we have in our field are staffing, funding and transportation. We can solve for a lot of staffing and funding using technology.” Brian Hart

Have questions or would like to see a free demo? Contact us.