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Unity Global Care and MedWand Solutions Join Forces to Help Home Care Agencies Detect Risk Earlier, Improve Client Outcomes, and Scale Compassionate Care

Flemington NJ, August 12, 2026: Unity Global Care, the developer of ALBERTai, an AI-powered aging intelligence platform and ecosystem built on multi-patent pending technology, today announced a strategic partnership with MedWand Solutions, a medical technology company extending the reach of the clinical exam through a multi-sensor platform designed to connect patients and providers from virtually anywhere. Together, Unity Global Care and MedWand will equip home care agencies with an integrated, data-driven solution to deliver proactive, continuous care monitoring for aging adults living independently at home.

The partnership comes at a critical inflection point for the home care industry. More than 63 million seniors currently receive professional home care in the United States, and 87% of adults 65 and older prefer to remain in their own homes as they age. With projected home care spending expected to reach $275 billion by 2030 and approximately 10,000 Americans turning 65 each day, agencies are under extraordinary and growing pressure to meet demand with resources that have not kept pace. Meanwhile, the caregiving workforce is stretched, families are overwhelmed, and the existing model of reactive, fragmented care is no longer sufficient to address the scale and complexity of the aging crisis unfolding across the country and around the world.

Combining Two Powerful Platforms into One Proactive Unity CareHub

At the heart of the partnership is the integration of Unity Global Care's ALBERTai intelligence platform, powered by its proprietary Aging-in-Place Score® (AIP Score), with MedWand's Virtual Care platform. The solution combines traditional assessment tools with Bluetooth-enabled vital capture and remote patient evaluations to enhance efficiency, convenience, and access to care for the aging population. MedWand also supports advanced telemedicine solutions across multiple settings, including home care nursing teams, acute rehabilitation facilities, remote patient clinics, and physician telemedicine visits.

The vital sign data gathered through the MedWand device flows into Unity Global Care's ALBERTai intelligence layer, where it is synthesized alongside caregiver observations, family engagement inputs, health and wearables, home safety monitoring technologies and agency operational data to generate the Aging-in-Place Score. This unified and validated predictive metric helps home care agencies and families understand what is changing, why it matters, and what action to take next. The AIP Score is holistic by design, integrating functional wellbeing, care team influence, and environmental safety into a single interpretable signal. Because it is predictive rather than reactive, it identifies early risk trajectories before a crisis occurs, learning from longitudinal trends over time instead of relying on point-in-time snapshots, and translating complex, multi-source data into clear, actionable guidance for agencies, caregivers, and families.

From Reactive to Proactive: A New Standard of Care

By combining MedWand and ALBERTai, home care agencies can move from reactive to proactive care delivery. The integrated solution is designed to detect early indicators of decline, fall risk, or changes in health status before a crisis occurs and before a family reaches a breaking point. Through Unity's real-time Care Dashboard, agencies can visualize the stability of every client across their full census using an insight reporting priority approach. Detailed insights accompany each change in score to explain the underlying reasons, helping care teams respond with speed, confidence, and purpose. ALBERTai also provides AI-driven care plan recommendations that can be reviewed and shared directly with families and key contacts.

The partnership also strengthens referral relationships that are essential to home care agency growth. Hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, and healthcare partners increasingly require evidence that clients discharged home remain visible, monitored, and supported. Through ALBERTai's structured reporting suite, which includes Client Stability Reports, Aging-in-Place Score Trend Reports, High Risk Client Alert Reports, Fall Risk and Safety Monitoring Reports, Post-Discharge Monitoring Reports, and Caregiver Observation Summaries, agencies can demonstrate measurable, documented oversight that builds trust and reinforces referral partnerships over time.

For home care agencies, this integrated partnership translates directly into earlier risk identification through continuous monitoring, improved client retention through proactive and visible oversight, stronger referral relationships through shareable and structured client trend data, and greater operational efficiency through AI-driven prioritization and workflow support, along with a meaningful competitive differentiator in an increasingly demanding marketplace.

David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Unity Global Care Inc., stated: “The mission of Unity Global Care has always been to change the way the world ages, not with good intentions alone, but with real intelligence, real data, and real action. Our partnership with MedWand is a powerful step forward in that mission. MedWand has built something genuinely remarkable: a remote patient monitoring solution set combined with telemedicine and designed from the ground up for older adults that captures the kind of continuous, meaningful vital sign data that ALBERTai was built to transform into insight. Together, we are giving home care agencies the ability to see what was previously invisible, the subtle but critical changes in how an aging adult moves, sleeps, and lives day to day and to act on those signals before a fall, a hospitalization, or a loss of independence occurs. This is not simply a technology integration. This is a commitment to the families, caregivers, and agencies on the front lines of the aging crisis, and to the aging adults who deserve to live with dignity, safety, and independence in the place they love most: home.”

Todd Cornell, Chief Executive Officer of MedWand, commented, “MedWand was built on a simple but powerful conviction: that independence for seniors, peace of mind for families, and data-driven care for providers are not competing goals, they are the same goal, achieved together. We designed every element of MedWand to meet older adults where they are, with technology that is effortless to use, and rich in the kind of vital sign data that truly matters clinically and operationally. Partnering with Unity Global Care and ALBERTai takes everything we have built to an entirely new level. By integrating our remote monitoring capabilities into Unity's intelligent Unity CareHub, we are giving home care agencies something they have never had before: a complete, living picture of their clients' wellbeing, and the predictive intelligence to act on it proactively. This is the future of home care, and we are proud to be building it together.”

A Shared Vision for the Future of Home Care

The Unity Global Care and MedWand partnership is designed for immediate deployment within home care agencies and national franchise networks, with a scalable model that can grow alongside agency census. MedWand's Remote Monitoring Solution is already serving customers across the United States and international markets. Unity Global Care's ALBERTai ecosystem provides the intelligence infrastructure, referral reporting suite, Aging-In-Place Score and operational coordination layer that enables agencies to translate continuous data into demonstrably better outcomes for clients, stronger trust with referral partners, and sustainable competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving market.

Guided by a distinguished Medical Advisory Board that includes Dr. Thomas M. Gill of Yale School of Medicine and Dr. Sara J. Czaja of Weill Cornell Medicine, Unity Global Care brings both clinical credibility and entrepreneurial vision to this partnership. Together, Unity Global Care and MedWand are committed to helping home care and home health agencies not only meet the demands of today's aging crisis, but lead through it with clarity, compassion, and intelligence.

About Unity Global Care Inc.

Unity Global Care is the developer of ALBERTai, an AI-powered aging intelligence platform and ecosystem purpose-built for the home care industry. Anchored by the proprietary and multi patent-pending Aging-in-Place Score® (AIP Score), ALBERTai transforms fragmented caregiver observations, client assessments, family engagement inputs, and operational data into predictive insights and coordinated action. Unity Global Care's integrated ecosystem includes AI-driven operational tools, recruitment infrastructure, referral relationship reporting, a B2C-to-B2B client acquisition engine, and the All Things Aging Marketplace. For more information, visit www.UnityGlobalCare.com | DaveD@unityglobalcare.com

About MedWand

MedWand is the ultimate healthcare solution, seamlessly integrating traditional tools and Bluetooth connectivity for vitals capture and remote patient evaluations to enhance efficiency, convenience, and access to care. Created by a team of physicians and engineers to enhance the quality and accessibility of healthcare services regardless of physical location, MedWand is a sensor based medical device that assists clinicians in providing a comprehensive patient assessment from any location. The company offers advanced telemedicine solutions for multiple applications that include hospitals, remote clinics, nursing homes, schools, and workplaces. For more information visit www.MedWand.com | TCornell@medwand.com.

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Closing the Gap Between Wearing a Device and Truly Knowing: How PacSana and ALBERTai Are Redefining Safe Aging in Place

By David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc. & Feargal Duignan, Founder & CEO, PacSana

There is a moment that happens in almost every family caring for an aging loved one, whether they live three miles away or three states away. It is the moment when a phone rings and before a single word is spoken, the heart already knows something's wrong. Was it a fall? A trip to the emergency room? A sudden change no one saw coming? For millions of families, that fear is constant, quiet, and exhausting. And for home care agencies serving those families, the challenge is just as real: how do you protect someone twenty-four hours a day when your caregivers can only be present for a fraction of those hours?

This is the question that brought our two companies together, and it is the question at the center of everything we have built.

Unity Global Care created ALBERTai to solve a problem that has confounded the home care industry for decades: agencies and families are surrounded by information, but starved for insight. A caregiver's notes from Tuesday's visit, a family member's observation over the weekend, a nurse's report after a hospital discharge — these fragments exist, but they rarely connect into a single, coherent picture of how a person is actually aging over time. ALBERTai was designed to change that. Using artificial intelligence to synthesize these fragments of data into something clear, predictive, and actionable: the patent pending Aging-in-Place Score®. An intelligence platform, no matter how sophisticated, is only as powerful as the data it has available. This is where PacSana became essential to the mission.

PacSana set out to solve a different but deeply related problem. Older adults do not want to feel monitored, managed, or medicalized in their own homes. They want to live their lives. So PacSana built a smart wearable band unlike anything that came before it — one that disappears into daily life rather than disrupting it. There is no smartphone to pair, no daily charging routine to remember, no bulky device to resist wearing. The band is fully waterproof, so it stays on through a shower or a swim, and it runs for a full year on a single charge. For an aging adult, it simply becomes part of life, no different than a wristwatch. For a family or a care team, it becomes something far more valuable: a quiet, continuous witness to the rhythms of daily life.

What makes this partnership powerful is not the wearable alone, and it is not the intelligence platform alone. It is what happens when the two are joined together. PacSana's Smart Band captures the kind of behavioral data that has historically been invisible to home care agencies and families alike. It tracks Active Minutes, reflecting the basic movements of dressing, washing, and moving through the day. It measures Gait Speed, a clinically validated indicator that research has repeatedly linked to fall risk, frailty, and cognitive health. It distinguishes true exercise from ordinary movement, both inside and outside the home. It monitors sleep duration and nighttime bed exits, offering insight into a dimension of health that is often the earliest to shift when something is wrong. And it provides immediate alerts for falls, wandering, and other urgent events — the moments when seconds matter most.

On their own, these data points are useful. Fed into ALBERTai, they become something else entirely. ALBERTai takes this continuous stream of behavioral data from PacSana and layers it alongside caregiver observations, family input, and agency records, building a longitudinal understanding of what is truly normal for each individual person. It does not simply flag that something happened. It learns the baseline of a life, so that it can recognize when that baseline begins to shift — often weeks before a crisis would otherwise reveal itself. A gradually slowing gait. A pattern of restless nights. A quiet decline in movement that no single visit would ever catch. These are precisely the signals that the current healthcare and home care systems are built to miss, and precisely the signals that the Aging-in-Place Score is built to catch.

For home care agencies, this partnership represents a fundamental shift in what it means to provide care. Instead of relying solely on the hours a caregiver is physically present, agencies now have a continuous thread of insight running through the hours in between. The Aging-in-Place Score gives care teams a clear, color-coded view of every client across their entire census, distinguishing those who are stable from those who need a closer look and those who need immediate attention, along with the specific reasons behind each change. This allows agencies to intervene earlier, staff more intelligently, and demonstrate real, documented oversight to hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and referral partners who increasingly expect proof that a client discharged home is not simply left alone. In an industry facing an unprecedented wave of demand, with 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day, this is not a luxury. It is quickly becoming the standard of care that families and referral partners will come to expect.

For families, the significance is even more personal. It means the daughter who lives two states away no longer must rely solely on a phone call to know how her father is really doing. It means the son who visits every Sunday can see, between visits, whether his mother's sleep has changed or her movement has slowed, long before it becomes obvious when present. It means that instead of living in a state of low-grade, constant worry, families can rely on real information, updated continuously, interpreted clearly, and delivered before a small concern becomes a serious one. This is not about replacing human care or human connection. It is about giving both professional caregivers and family caregivers something they have never reliably had before: the ability to see what was previously invisible.

We built this partnership on a shared belief that independence for aging adults, peace of mind for families, and better outcomes for care providers are not three separate goals in competition with one another. They are the same goal, and they are only achievable together. A wearable device that captures meaningful data is only as useful as the intelligence that interprets it. An intelligence platform is only as powerful as the quality and continuity of the data feeding it. PacSana and ALBERTai, joined together, close that loop completely.

Aging in place, safely and with dignity, has always been the outcome that older adults want most and families fear they cannot guarantee. For the first time, agencies and families do not have to choose between reactive care and true independence. They can have both — continuously, quietly, and reliably — in the place every person deserves to feel most at home.

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Feargal Duignan, Founder & CEO, PacSana

Feargal Duignan is a health-tech entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of PacSana. PacSana is a remote care platform designed to transform senior living and home care. With over two decades of experience in technology leadership, Duignan has dedicated his recent career to addressing critical inefficiencies in eldercare through proactive, data-driven solutions.

After spending years in high-value complex technology sales, Feargal founded PacSana. The company develops wearable technology and remote care solutions, specifically the PacSana Smart Bracelet, and AI-driven monitoring software. This technology tracks gait, falls, exercise, sleep, and location to provide care networks with an accurate picture of an individual's changing needs.

David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Unity Global Care

Dave brings a uniquely informed perspective to the conversation around aging, technology, and compassionate care. A patient advocate, entrepreneur, and seasoned healthcare strategist with more than 30 years of experience working alongside medical professionals, research organizations, and patient communities across virtually every disease area, Dave has dedicated his career to aligning the goals of all healthcare stakeholders in service of better patient outcomes. As Chairman of Vital Options International, a global health foundation founded in 1983 and committed to health education, advocacy, and financial assistance for patients in minority and underserved communities worldwide, Dave understands firsthand the human stakes embedded in every healthcare decision.

A recognized author and speaker on the challenges facing vulnerable populations, Dave is a passionate believer that technology, when thoughtfully applied, has the power to close gaps in care, amplify the voices of those too often left behind, and preserve the dignity of aging individuals and the families who love them. It is through this lens that Dave Co-Founded Unity Global Care Inc., to bring the ALBERTai eco-system to families and providers, not merely as tools of convenience, but as meaningful instruments of empowerment for some of the most emotionally complex moments families will ever face.

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The Companions We've Been Waiting For: How Humanoid Robots and ALBERTai Are Reimagining the Future of Aging

By David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder, President & CEO Unity Global Care Inc. | Founder, RoboCare360 Inc.

There is a particular kind of silence that fills a home when someone has lived alone for too long. It is the silence after the television goes off at nine o'clock. The silence between the Tuesday visit from a caregiver and the Friday visit from a grandchild. The silence that settles into the corners of a kitchen where meals used to be shared with a spouse who is no longer there. Families feel the weight of that silence from a distance, in the pauses on a phone call, in the flatness of a voice that used to light up when they called. They worry about it. They cannot fix it. And until now, no one has really been able to.

That is beginning to change, and it is changing in a way that would have sounded like science fiction a decade ago. Humanoid robots, powered by Unity Global Care's ALBERTai artificial intelligence platform, will soon be stepping into homes not as gadgets or novelties, but as genuine companions, capable of conversation, presence, and connection, while simultaneously functioning as an intelligent, continuously watchful layer of care that can detect the earliest signs of physical, nutritional, emotional, and cognitive decline as well as safety concerns long before they become emergencies. For the first time, the two greatest threats to healthy aging in place, isolation and undetected decline, are being addressed by the same technology, in the same home, at the same time.

The Loneliest Generation in History

The scale of the isolation crisis among older adults is difficult to overstate. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has reported that nearly one in four adults aged 65 and older is considered socially isolated, and the U.S. Surgeon General has declared loneliness a public health epidemic, noting that its mortality impact is comparable to smoking up to fifteen cigarettes a day. Research published by the National Institute on Aging has linked social isolation to a 50 percent increased risk of dementia, a nearly 30 percent increased risk of heart disease, and a similarly elevated risk of stroke. Loneliness does not simply make aging harder emotionally. It makes people sicker, physically, measurably, and often silently.

For families, this presents an impossible equation. A visiting caregiver can help with bathing, meals, and medication, but a two-hour visit cannot fill the eighteen hours of silence that follow it. Adult children living across the country cannot conjure the daily companionship their parent needs no matter how often they call. Extended care teams, however well-coordinated, have never had a consistent, embodied presence in the home capable of engaging someone in real conversation at three in the afternoon on a random Tuesday, when no one else is scheduled to be there.

This is precisely the gap that humanoid robots powered by ALBERTai are built to fill.

Presence That Talks Back

Imagine an older adult sitting in her living room in the early afternoon. Her daughter is at work two states away. Her caregiver was there in the morning and will not return until tomorrow. In the home with her is a humanoid companion, warm in demeanor, conversational, attentive, capable of reminiscing with her about her grandchildren, reminding her gently that it is almost time for her afternoon medication, asking how she slept, and genuinely listening to her answer. It notices when she seems more subdued than usual. It notices when her responses take longer, when her words are harder to find, when the spark that is usually present in her voice has quietly dimmed.

This is not companionship as entertainment. It is companionship as clinical infrastructure. Every interaction, every conversation, every subtle shift in tone, pace, and content becomes another data point flowing into ALBERTai, the same intelligence platform that home care agencies are already using to transform reactive care into proactive care. The robot is not simply keeping someone company in the way a pet or a television might. It is actively engaging, actively listening, and actively feeding what it observes into a system built to detect the earliest whispers of decline, weeks or months before that decline becomes a fall, a hospitalization, or a crisis call in the middle of the night.

This is the union of two things that have historically lived in separate worlds: the emotional warmth of human connection and the clinical rigor of continuous health monitoring. Humanoid robots powered by ALBERTai do not force a choice between the two. They deliver both, simultaneously, in the same presence, in the same room, every single day.

From Isolated Data to a Single, Honest Number

At the center of this transformation is the ALBERTai Aging-in-Place Score®, a patent-pending, continuously updated composite measure that synthesizes physical health biomarkers, cognitive function, mobility and strength, sleep quality, appetite, medication adherence, and emotional and social engagement into a single, clinically meaningful indicator. When a humanoid companion becomes part of a person's daily life, it becomes one of the richest sources feeding that score, contributing not an occasional snapshot but a constant, gentle stream of observation gathered through natural conversation and daily interaction rather than intrusive testing or clinical visits.

When the score is stable, families and care teams gain something they have never reliably had before: quiet confidence that today is like yesterday, and that the person they love is safe. When the score begins to soften, even slightly, that shift becomes visible long before it would show up as a missed meal a caregiver happens to notice, or a fall that ends in an ambulance ride. A home care agency can review the trend and schedule an additional visit. A family member can call and ask specific, informed questions instead of generic ones. A physician can be alerted to a pattern worth investigating. The emergency that might have happened simply does not, because the warning arrived early enough for someone to act on it.

The financial and human stakes behind this kind of early detection are enormous. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that approximately 36 million falls occur among older adults in the United States every year, resulting in more than 32,000 deaths, 3 million emergency department visits, and direct medical costs exceeding 50 billion dollars annually. The New England Journal of Medicine has found that roughly one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to the hospital within thirty days of discharge, with the Medicare program spending more than 26 billion dollars annually on those readmissions alone. Nearly every one of these outcomes is preceded by subtle, detectable changes in behavior, mobility, sleep, appetite, or cognition, the exact signals a humanoid companion powered by ALBERTai is present to observe and report, day after day, in a way no periodic visit ever could.

A New Kind of Care Team

For home care agencies, the introduction of humanoid companions does not replace the caregiver. It extends their reach into every hour they cannot physically be present. For extended care teams, spread across home health nurses, physicians, discharge planners, and family members living far from home, the robot becomes a shared, continuous set of eyes and ears, feeding everyone the same unified picture rather than leaving each person to piece together fragments from disconnected phone calls and separate impressions. For families, it becomes something even more personal: an answer to the question that keeps them awake at night, the one at the heart of every caregiver's life, whether their loved one is truly okay when no one else is there.

This matters enormously in light of what caregiving already costs the people who provide it. AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving report that more than 53 million Americans provide unpaid care to an aging loved one, a contribution valued at more than 600 billion dollars annually, with women making up approximately 61 percent of that caregiving population. Research from the Family Caregiver Alliance has found that female caregivers are twice as likely to experience depression and anxiety as non-caregiving women, and studies have linked sustained caregiving stress to accelerated cellular aging, elevated cardiovascular risk, and suppressed immune function. Much of that toll comes not from the caregiving itself but from uncertainty, from not knowing, from bracing for a phone call that might come at any moment. A humanoid companion that watches over a loved one throughout the day, feeding real information into a system families can actually see and understand, does not just protect the person aging at home. It gives the caregiver back her peace of mind, and very possibly, her own health.

The Future Taking Shape

Picture what home care looks like a decade from now. An aging population larger than any in human history, with the U.S. Census Bureau projecting that by 2034 older adults will outnumber children in the United States for the first time, and the World Health Organization projecting that the global population of people aged 60 and older will nearly double by 2050. This is not a distant abstraction. It is the reality the next generation is already inheriting, a generation smaller in number than the one before it, already stretched by the demands of work, family, and their own lives, and facing the prospect of caring for more aging parents and grandparents than any generation in history has ever had to carry.

The old model of aging in place cannot support that future. It depends on scheduled visits, disconnected notes, and families quietly hoping that nothing goes wrong between check-ins. It is a model built for a smaller, younger world, not the one that is arriving.

The future being built by humanoid robots powered by ALBERTai looks fundamentally different. It is a future in which an aging adult is never truly alone, in which companionship is available at three in the afternoon and three in the morning alike, in which conversation and connection are not luxuries reserved for the days a caregiver happens to visit or a grandchild happens to call. It is a future in which isolation, one of the most quietly devastating and medically consequential conditions of old age, is met daily rather than occasionally. And it is a future in which the earliest signs of decline, the ones that have always hidden in the space between visits, are caught early enough to prevent the fall, the hospitalization, the crisis that changes everything.

For families, this means fewer sleepless nights and fewer moments of dreaded uncertainty. For home care agencies, it means the ability to finally close the gap between the data they collect and the insight they need to act on it. For hospital systems and discharge planners, it means a genuine extension of clinical oversight into the home, reducing readmissions and easing the financial and human cost that falls and unnecessary emergency visits impose on the entire healthcare system. And for the generations who will one day be responsible for caring for all of us, it means a future in which the sheer scale of an aging population does not have to translate into an unbearable burden, because technology and humanity are, for the first time, working side by side rather than one waiting helplessly for the other to notice something has gone wrong.

The silence that once filled the homes of aging adults living alone is beginning to lift. In its place is conversation, attentiveness, and a quiet, constant form of watchfulness that allows people to remain in the homes they love, surrounded by connection rather than isolation, for longer, safer, and happier years than would otherwise have been possible. That is the future home care is building. It is not a future defined by fear of what aging takes away. It is one defined by everything technology, guided by genuine compassion, can finally give back.

About the Author

David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder & CEO Unity Global Care | Founder, RoboCare360 Inc.
Dave brings a uniquely informed perspective to the conversation around aging, technology, and compassionate care. A patient advocate, entrepreneur, and seasoned healthcare strategist with more than 30 years of experience working alongside medical professionals, research organizations, global technology firms, and patient communities across virtually every disease area, Dave has dedicated his career to aligning the goals of all healthcare stakeholders in service of better patient outcomes. As Chairman of Vital Options International, a global health foundation founded in 1983 and committed to health education, advocacy, and financial assistance for patients in minority and underserved communities worldwide, Dave understands firsthand the human stakes embedded in every healthcare decision.

A recognized author and speaker on the challenges facing vulnerable populations, Dave is a passionate believer that technology, when thoughtfully applied, has the power to close gaps in care, amplify the voices of those too often left behind, and preserve the dignity of aging individuals and the families who love them. It is through this lens that Dave Co-Founded Unity Global Care Inc., and Founded RoboCare360 Inc., to bring the ALBERTai eco-system and humanoid care robots to families and providers, not merely as tools of convenience, but as meaningful instruments of empowerment for some of the most emotionally complex moments families will ever face.

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Bridging the Gap: How Home Care Agencies and Hospital Discharge Planners Can Use ALBERTai to Transform the Journey from Hospital to Home

By Dr. Thomas M. Gill, Yale School of Medicine & David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc.

There is a moment in every patient's hospital stay that carries more risk than almost any other point in their care. It isn't the surgery, the diagnosis, or the acute crisis that brought them to the hospital in the first place. It is the moment they walk out the front doors and head home. For discharge planners and home care agencies alike, that moment represents both the culmination of careful clinical work and the beginning of a period during which visibility into the patient's condition all but disappears.

The discharge instructions have been reviewed, the medications reconciled, the follow-up appointment scheduled. And yet, once that patient crosses the threshold into their own home, the health system's ability to see what happens next effectively ends. What unfolds in the days and weeks that follow, whether the patient is sleeping well, eating enough, moving safely, taking medications as prescribed, or beginning to show the subtle signs of decline that so often precede a fall or a return trip to the emergency department, remains largely invisible until something goes wrong.

This is the exact gap that ALBERTai, the artificial intelligence platform developed by Unity Global Care Inc., was built to close, and it is a gap that home care agencies and hospital discharge planners are uniquely positioned to close together. When these two parts of the care continuum, the hospital system responsible for a safe discharge and the home care agency responsible for what comes after, are connected through a shared intelligence layer rather than operating as disconnected handoffs, the entire trajectory of a patient's recovery changes.

For hospital discharge planners, the value of partnering with home care agencies powered by ALBERTai begins with something discharge teams have long wanted but rarely had: a genuine extension of clinical oversight beyond the walls of the facility. Rather than releasing a patient into an environment that offers no feedback loop, discharge planners gain access to a continuously updated picture of how that patient is actually functioning at home.

Sleep patterns, mobility, appetite, cognitive function, medication adherence, mood, balance, and strength are all captured and synthesized into a single, evolving portrait of the patient's condition. This is not a static report generated days after the fact. It is a living, longitudinal record that reflects how a patient is trending, whether toward stability and recovery or toward the kind of quiet deterioration that so often precedes a readmission. For a discharge planner accountable not just for getting a patient safely out the door but for what happens to that patient in the thirty days that follow, this kind of visibility is transformative. It means a decline in a patient's condition can be identified and acted upon while there is still time to intervene, rather than being discovered only after an ambulance has already been called.

For home care agencies, the opportunity is equally significant, though it manifests differently. Most agencies today operate with an abundance of data and a scarcity of insight. Caregivers document visits, monitoring devices track vitals, medication reminders log adherence, and yet all of this information tends to live in disconnected silos, reviewed individually rather than understood as a whole. ALBERTai changes that by integrating every one of these data streams into a single intelligence layer that does not simply store information but interprets it, learns from it, and translates it into clear guidance that reaches caregivers, care coordinators, and clinical partners at the moment it matters most.

An agency that can say to a hospital discharge planner, with confidence and data to support it, that a client's functional trajectory is stable or improving is offering something categorically different from an agency that can only report that a visit occurred and a task was completed. That difference becomes the foundation of a genuine partnership between hospital and home, one built on shared visibility rather than a one-way handoff followed by silence.

At the center of this shared visibility is the patent pending ALBERTai Aging-in-Place Score®, a continuously updated composite indicator that draws on physical health biomarkers, cognitive function, mobility and strength, sleep quality, appetite, medication adherence, and overall functional stability to produce a single, clinically meaningful number. Unlike a discharge summary or a one-time home safety assessment, which capture a patient's condition at a single moment, the ALBERTai Aging-in-Place Score® reflects a trajectory over time. For a discharge planner following up on a recently released patient, or a home care agency managing a caseload of aging clients, this score offers an early warning system that did not previously exist in any practical, scalable form. A patient whose score begins to soften in the weeks after discharge is signaling a need for attention well before that decline shows up as a fall, an infection, or a trip back to the emergency department. Caught early, that signal can trigger a medication review, a nursing visit, a call to the family, or a conversation with the physician, all of which are far less costly and far less traumatic for the patient than the alternative.

The financial stakes behind this kind of coordination are substantial and well documented. Approximately one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to the hospital within thirty days of discharge, at an average cost of between fifteen thousand and twenty-five thousand dollars per episode, with the Medicare program spending more than twenty-six billion dollars annually on hospital readmissions. Falls compound this burden significantly, with roughly thirty-six million falls occurring among older adults each year, resulting in more than three million emergency department visits and direct medical costs exceeding fifty billion dollars annually.

These are precisely the outcomes that a well-coordinated hospital-to-home transition, supported by continuous intelligence rather than episodic check-ins, is capable of preventing. For hospitals operating under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and value-based purchasing arrangements, every readmission avoided through better post-discharge visibility is not just a better outcome for the patient, it is a direct reduction in financial penalty exposure. For home care agencies, the ability to demonstrate measurable improvement in client outcomes becomes a powerful differentiator in an increasingly competitive referral landscape, one that hospital systems are learning to prioritize when selecting post-acute partners.

Perhaps most importantly, this kind of coordinated, intelligence-driven transition changes the experience of recovery itself for patients and their families. An older adult discharged home after a hip fracture or a cardiac event is often frightened, and so is their family. Family caregivers, more than fifty million of them nationally, already carry an extraordinary burden, and much of that burden stems from uncertainty: not knowing whether a parent's confusion is a normal part of recovery or the beginning of something more serious, not knowing whether a missed meal or a restless night is meaningful or incidental. When home care agencies and discharge planners are working from the same continuously updated picture of a patient's condition, families are no longer left to interpret these signals alone. They become part of a coordinated team that includes the hospital, the home care agency, and the technology quietly working in the background to catch what human observation alone might miss.

The path from hospital bed to home has always been treated as an endpoint, the final step in an episode of care rather than the beginning of an ongoing one. ALBERTai offers hospital discharge planners and home care agencies the opportunity to treat it instead as a continuation, a bridge sustained by shared data, shared visibility, and shared accountability for what happens next. For health systems facing mounting pressure to reduce readmissions and demonstrate real-world outcomes, and for home care agencies seeking to prove their value as genuine clinical partners rather than simple service providers, this kind of collaboration represents not just an operational improvement but a fundamentally better way of caring for the millions of aging adults who deserve to remain safely, healthily, and independently in the homes they love.

About the Authors

Dr. Thomas Gill, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Thomas Gill is a physician at Yale who specializes in caring for older adults and studying how to help people stay healthy and independent as they age. For more than 30 years, his research has focused on understanding why older individuals develop difficulties with everyday activities and, importantly, how to prevent or delay those changes.

He leads major research programs at Yale that follow people over time and test new approaches to maintain strength, mobility, and quality of life. His work has helped shape how doctors and scientists think about aging, disability, and independence.

Dr. Gill has published extensively and received many honors for his contributions. At Yale, he also directs key programs devoted to aging research and the health of older adults. Dr. Gill has led and contributed to groundbreaking epidemiologic research, clinical trials and other aging initiatives. His work has been widely recognized with prestigious awards and leadership roles across Yale and the broader aging research community.

David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc.
Dave brings a uniquely informed perspective to the conversation around aging, technology, and compassionate care. A patient advocate, entrepreneur, and seasoned healthcare strategist with more than 30 years of experience working alongside medical professionals, research organizations, and patient communities across virtually every disease area, Dave has dedicated his career to aligning the goals of all healthcare stakeholders in service of better patient outcomes. As Chairman of Vital Options International, a global health foundation founded in 1983 and committed to health education, advocacy, and financial assistance for patients in minority and underserved communities worldwide, Dave understands firsthand the human stakes embedded in every healthcare decision.

A recognized author and speaker on the challenges facing vulnerable populations, Dave is a passionate believer that technology, when thoughtfully applied, has the power to close gaps in care, amplify the voices of those too often left behind, and preserve the dignity of aging individuals and the families who love them. It is through this lens that Dave Co-Founded Unity Global Care Inc., to bring the ALBERTai eco-system to families and providers, not merely as tools of convenience, but as meaningful instruments of empowerment for some of the most emotionally complex moments families will ever face.

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Breaking Down the Walls: Why Data Interoperability Is the Most Urgent Crisis in Healthcare That No One Is Talking About

By Dr. Thomas M. Gill, Yale School of Medicine & David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc.

There is a quiet crisis unfolding in every corner of healthcare, from hospital discharge units to assisted living communities, from home care agencies to outpatient rehabilitation clinics. It is not a crisis of clinical knowledge or medical innovation. It is a crisis of connection. The data that could save lives, prevent hospitalizations, and dramatically improve the quality of care for millions of aging adults exists in abundance. It is being collected every hour of every day by wearable devices, remote patient monitoring systems, home monitoring sensors, caregiver documentation platforms, electronic health records, and mobile applications across the entire care continuum. And most of it is trapped.

Trapped in proprietary systems. Trapped behind closed Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that companies have chosen not to build, not to share, or not to offer without financial barriers so prohibitive that they function as walls rather than gateways. Trapped in the organizational siloes of vendors who have, whether by design or by indifference, decided that controlling their data ecosystem matters more than the patients, clients, and caregivers whose health information lives inside it.

This is not a minor technical inconvenience. It is a structural failure with measurable, documented consequences for patient safety, clinical outcomes, caregiver burden, and the financial sustainability of the healthcare system itself. And it demands a response not just from technology developers, but from every hospital, home care agency, assisted living community, health system, and patient advocacy organization that has the standing and the responsibility to demand better.

The Data Exists. The Integration Does Not.

The modern care environment for aging adults is, in many respects, extraordinarily data rich. A 78-year-old woman aging in place with congestive heart failure, mild cognitive impairment, and a recent history of falls may be generating dozens of meaningful data points every single day. Her remote patient monitoring device is capturing blood pressure trends and oxygen saturation. Her wearable is recording heart rate variability, sleep quality, and step count. The home care aide who visits three mornings a week is documenting her appetite, her mood, her physical steadiness, and her cognitive clarity. The smart sensors in her home are tracking movement patterns that may subtly signal a change in her functional status days before any single symptom becomes clinically obvious. Her medication dispenser is logging whether she opened it at the right time and took the right dose. Her family members, who live across the country, are noticing things during phone calls that no algorithm would ever capture on its own.

All of that information exists. None of it is connected. Her physician sees a fraction of it, and only at scheduled visits. Her care manager sees another fragment. Her family sees another. And the critical patterns that emerge only when those streams of data are analyzed together — the subtle, early signals of functional decline that precede falls, hospitalizations, and medical crises — remain invisible to everyone until the crisis itself arrives.

This is what healthcare leaders, clinicians, and policymakers mean when they describe the home care environment as simultaneously data rich and insight poor. The information is there. The integration is not. And the reason the integration is not there, in a significant and underacknowledged number of cases, is that the companies that built the platforms holding this data have chosen not to provide the open, accessible APIs that would make integration possible.

Physicians Are Asking. The Technology Is Not Answering.

The clinical appetite for integrated patient data is not hypothetical. It has been documented rigorously. The American Medical Association, in a comprehensive survey of more than 2,200 physicians across the United States, Canada, and Europe, found that 97 percent of responding physicians said they would review health information collected by a wearable device if it were made available to them. Ninety-seven percent. That is not a lukewarm expression of mild interest. That is near-universal clinical demand for exactly the kind of continuous, between-visit patient data that modern monitoring technologies are capable of generating.

And yet, as the same AMA survey documented, no more than 6 percent of physicians in any of the surveyed countries had actually integrated wearable or remote monitoring data into their clinical practice. The distance between 97 percent wanting something and 6 percent actually using it tells you everything you need to know about where the failure lies. It is not in physician motivation. It is not in the clinical value of the data. It is in the absence of systems that make that data accessible, interpretable, and integrated into the workflows and electronic health record environments where physicians actually practice medicine.

John Whyte, the Chief Executive Officer of the American Medical Association, has articulated this challenge directly, noting that physicians are genuinely interested in patient data just as consumers are, and that the central obstacle is the failure of health technology systems to incorporate that data into physician workflow in any meaningful way. That failure is not inevitable. It is a choice, made repeatedly by companies that build data-generating technologies without building the integration pathways that would allow those technologies to contribute to the coordinated, complete picture of patient health that physicians, care managers, and families desperately need.

The Cost of Fragmentation Is Not Abstract

When patient data cannot be integrated across the platforms and systems that generate it, the consequences are not theoretical. They are financial, clinical, and human. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports that approximately one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge, at an average cost of between $15,000 and $25,000 per episode. The Medicare program spends more than $26 billion annually on hospital readmissions, a significant portion of which represent cases where early intervention, enabled by the kind of continuous, integrated monitoring that interoperable data ecosystems make possible, could have prevented the readmission entirely.

Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, CMS reduces payments to hospitals with excess readmission rates for specific conditions including heart failure, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and hip and knee arthroplasty. In fiscal year 2023, 2,273 hospitals faced payment reductions under this program, with aggregate penalties exceeding $500 million. These penalties fall on institutions whose clinical teams often have the knowledge and the intent to prevent the readmissions they are being penalized for, but lack the continuous, integrated data infrastructure that would allow them to identify deteriorating patients before the deterioration becomes a readmission.

The fall statistics are equally sobering. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that approximately 36 million falls occur among older adults in the United States each year, resulting in more than 32,000 deaths, 3 million emergency department visits, and direct medical costs exceeding $50 billion annually. The majority of those falls are preceded by subtle, detectable changes in gait, balance, sleep, and activity patterns — changes that continuous, integrated monitoring can identify days or weeks before the fall occurs, but that go undetected when the data generated by monitoring devices cannot flow across system boundaries into the unified clinical picture that would make them actionable.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports that the average cost of an emergency department visit in the United States exceeds $1,200, with visits resulting in admission averaging more than $3,300 in facility costs before inpatient charges are applied. Among adults 65 and older, fall-related emergency department visits alone account for more than $50 billion in direct annual costs. Every one of those visits that integrated, interoperable monitoring could have prevented represents not only a financial cost but a human cost — a patient whose crisis was foreseeable, and whose foreseeable crisis became real because the data that could have triggered a timely intervention was locked in a system that did not talk to any other system.

The Ownership Question That Companies Are Getting Wrong

There is a foundational ethical and legal question embedded in this conversation that the technology industry has been remarkably slow to confront directly. Who owns the health data that monitoring devices, wearable technologies, and care management platforms collect?

The answer, in both ethical principle and in the direction of evolving regulatory policy, is clear. The patient does. The client does. The individual whose physiological signals, behavioral patterns, sleep cycles, medication adherence, and functional status are being captured and stored owns that information. It was generated by their body, in their home, in the course of their daily life. The technology platform that collected it was engaged as a tool in service of their care, not as a custodian with the right to restrict access to information about their own health.

The 21st Century Cures Act, signed into law in 2016 and with key provisions implemented in subsequent years, established federal prohibitions on information blocking, defined as practices by health information technology developers, health information networks, and healthcare providers that are likely to interfere with access, exchange, or use of electronic health information. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has continued to strengthen interoperability requirements under this framework, with the explicit recognition that patients have a right to access their own health data and that information blocking undermines the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare for everyone.

When a company that develops a remote patient monitoring platform, a wearable device ecosystem, or a care management application declines to build an API, charges prohibitive fees for API access, or imposes contractual restrictions that prevent data from flowing to other systems in a patient's care ecosystem, they are not protecting proprietary business assets. They are, at minimum, operating in tension with the policy direction of federal health information law, and at most, actively preventing patients and their caregivers from exercising their rights to their own health information. The data in these systems does not belong to the company that built the platform. It never did.

The Fragmented Ecosystem and Its Human Consequences

Consider what data fragmentation looks like in practice across the care settings that serve aging adults every day. A patient is discharged from an acute care hospital following a hip fracture repair. She spends two weeks in an inpatient rehabilitation facility, then transitions to home health care, with a home care agency supplementing professional nursing visits with daily aide support. She wears a remote patient monitoring device prescribed by her cardiologist to track her heart rate and blood pressure. Her family has installed a home monitoring system to detect falls and track movement patterns. Her medication adherence is tracked through a connected dispenser that her pharmacy arranged.

Every one of those systems is generating clinically meaningful data about her recovery, her functional status, and her risk for readmission. And in the absence of interoperability between those systems, every one of those data streams is invisible to every other system in her care ecosystem. Her home health nurse documents observations in one platform. Her physician sees vital signs from the remote monitoring device in a separate portal, if they see them at all. The home care aide's observations about her appetite and mobility live in a third system. The family's observations exist in informal phone calls and text messages. The fall detection sensors send alerts to a monitoring center that has no connection to any clinical system involved in her care.

This is not a care ecosystem. It is a collection of disconnected fragments, each doing part of its job and none of them communicating with each other in a way that produces the unified, longitudinal clinical picture that her care team needs to manage her recovery proactively. The warning signs of readmission, if they emerge in those early weeks at home, are almost certainly there in aggregate. The question is whether any system exists to see them. In most cases, today, the answer is no.

The World Health Organization and the Global Call for Integration

The failure of data interoperability in healthcare is not a uniquely American problem, and the organizations responsible for global health policy have recognized it as a structural challenge with profound implications for care quality and population health. The World Health Organization has identified falls prevention as a global public health priority, noting that falls are largely preventable when early risk factors are identified and addressed, and that multifactorial risk assessment and intervention programs can reduce fall rates by up to 30 to 40 percent. The key phrase is early identification, which requires exactly the kind of continuous, integrated monitoring that data silos make impossible.

The United Nations World Social Report projects that the number of people aged 70 and older will more than double globally by 2050. In the United States, 10,000 Americans turn 65 every single day. The Administration for Community Living estimates that approximately 40 million adults are currently aging in place in the United States. Managing the health, safety, and quality of life of that population at scale, in a way that is clinically sound, financially sustainable, and consistent with the overwhelming preference of older adults to remain in their own homes, requires data infrastructure that does not yet exist in most care environments. Building that infrastructure requires interoperability. And interoperability requires APIs that work.

The National Institute on Aging has emphasized that early detection of cognitive decline is among the highest clinical priorities in aging medicine, noting that interventions initiated at the mild cognitive impairment stage carry substantially greater potential to slow functional decline and preserve quality of life than those initiated after dementia has progressed. Early detection of cognitive decline in real-world home settings depends on continuous monitoring of behavioral, sleep, and functional indicators across time — monitoring that only becomes clinically actionable when the data it generates can be integrated with the broader clinical picture maintained by a patient's care team.

The API Is Not a Technical Detail. It Is a Care Decision.

There is a tendency to frame API availability as a technical or business question, a matter for engineering teams and commercial negotiators rather than for clinicians, care advocates, and patient rights organizations. That framing fundamentally misrepresents what is at stake. The decision by a software company, a remote patient monitoring vendor, a wearable device manufacturer, or a care management platform provider to build or not build an open, accessible, affordable API is not a technical decision. It is a care decision. It determines whether the data that platform generates can contribute to an integrated, coordinated, genuinely effective picture of a patient's health, or whether it disappears into a proprietary silo where its clinical value is permanently limited.

The FDA has noted that medication non-adherence contributes to approximately 125,000 preventable deaths and accounts for 10 to 25 percent of hospital and nursing home admissions annually in the United States. Medication adherence data that lives in a connected dispenser platform but cannot be accessed by a physician's electronic health record system or a care management platform is medication adherence data that cannot be acted upon. The dispenser did its job. The data did not go anywhere useful. And the preventable death, or the preventable hospitalization, happened anyway.

AARP research has documented that there are approximately 53 million family caregivers in the United States providing unpaid care valued at more than $470 billion annually. These caregivers are operating in precisely the information vacuum that data fragmentation creates. They are doing their best to support aging loved ones without access to the integrated, longitudinal picture of their loved one's health that would allow them to recognize warning signs early, communicate effectively with clinical care teams, and make informed decisions about care without operating in constant uncertainty and anxiety. Data integration does not just help clinicians. It helps families. And the companies whose platforms hold data that could reduce that burden have a responsibility to make that data accessible.

What the Industry Must Demand

The organizations that purchase and deploy health technology — home care agencies, hospitals, health systems, assisted living communities, memory care facilities, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and accountable care organizations — have more leverage in this conversation than they have historically chosen to exercise. When a technology vendor, a remote patient monitoring company, or a software developer is unable or unwilling to provide an open, accessible, reasonably priced API that allows patient data to flow to other systems in the care ecosystem, the organizations purchasing those technologies have both the right and the responsibility to treat that limitation as a disqualifying characteristic.

Patient data interoperability is not a nice-to-have feature. It is a fundamental requirement of responsible, patient-centered care technology. Organizations that adopt platforms built on closed data architectures are not simply accepting a technical limitation. They are accepting a care limitation, one that will manifest in fragmented clinical pictures, missed early warnings, preventable adverse events, and patients whose deterioration went undetected until it became a crisis because the data that should have triggered an earlier response could not cross the walls between systems.

The conversation about vendor selection in healthcare technology needs to change. Alongside questions about functionality, user experience, cost, and customer support, every healthcare organization evaluating a technology partnership should be asking whether that vendor provides an open API, whether the terms of API access are reasonable and not prohibitively priced, whether the vendor's data architecture is designed to support integration with other systems in the care ecosystem, and whether the vendor's approach to data access is consistent with the patient's right to access and control their own health information.

If the answers to those questions are no, or not without significant additional cost, or not in a way that is practically accessible, that is information that should materially affect the decision.

The Path Forward: An Integrated Future for Every Patient

The vision of an integrated care ecosystem — where every meaningful data point generated by a patient's monitoring devices, wearable technologies, caregiver observations, family communications, and clinical encounters flows together into a unified, continuously updated picture of that patient's functional health — is not technologically out of reach. The artificial intelligence and data integration capabilities necessary to synthesize those streams of information into clinically actionable intelligence exist and are being implemented by organizations committed to solving this problem. What is out of reach, in far too many cases, is the data itself, because the companies that hold it have not built the doors.

The Medicare Advantage market, now serving more than 30 million beneficiaries, is creating powerful financial incentives for health systems and physician groups to reduce emergency department utilization, prevent readmissions, and manage the total cost of care for aging adult populations. Those financial incentives cannot be fully realized without the integrated data infrastructure that makes proactive, continuous care management possible at scale. The value-based care movement, which continues to shift financial risk onto providers and away from fee-for-service volume, depends fundamentally on the ability to identify high-risk patients early, intervene before clinical events occur, and demonstrate longitudinal outcomes rather than process compliance. None of that is possible in a fragmented data ecosystem.

The healthcare industry is at an inflection point. The demographic reality of an aging population, the financial pressure of value-based care arrangements, the clinical imperative of early intervention, and the technological capability to make continuous, integrated monitoring a practical reality at scale have converged in a way that makes the status quo of data fragmentation not just inefficient but genuinely indefensible. Every day that patient data remains trapped in proprietary silos, inaccessible to the other systems and care team members who need it, is a day that preventable falls happen, preventable readmissions occur, preventable medication errors go undetected, and families caregive in the dark when the information that could illuminate their loved one's situation exists somewhere in a system that will not share it.

The companies that build and maintain the platforms, devices, and applications that hold this data have a choice to make. They can continue to operate as if the data in their systems is theirs, building walls that protect their competitive position at the expense of the patients whose health information they are custodians of, not owners of. Or they can recognize that the fundamental purpose of health technology is not data custody. It is care. And that care, at the level of quality and safety that aging adults deserve and that the healthcare system desperately needs to deliver, requires data that flows.

Every software company, every remote patient monitoring vendor, every wearable device manufacturer, every care management platform developer, every ERP system provider operating in healthcare needs to hear a clear and unified message from the organizations, clinicians, families, and policymakers they serve: build the API. Make it accessible. Price it fairly. And recognize that until you do, the most important thing your technology could contribute to patient care is being held back by a door you chose not to open.

The patients cannot afford to wait. Neither can the caregivers who love them. Neither can the healthcare system that serves them. The time to build the connection is now.

About the Authors

Dr. Thomas Gill, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Thomas Gill is a physician at Yale who specializes in caring for older adults and studying how to help people stay healthy and independent as they age. For more than 30 years, his research has focused on understanding why older individuals develop difficulties with everyday activities and, importantly, how to prevent or delay those changes.

He leads major research programs at Yale that follow people over time and test new approaches to maintain strength, mobility, and quality of life. His work has helped shape how doctors and scientists think about aging, disability, and independence.

Dr. Gill has published extensively and received many honors for his contributions. At Yale, he also directs key programs devoted to aging research and the health of older adults. Dr. Gill has led and contributed to groundbreaking epidemiologic research, clinical trials and other aging initiatives. His work has been widely recognized with prestigious awards and leadership roles across Yale and the broader aging research community.

David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc.
Dave is the Co-Founder, President & CEO of Unity Global Care Inc., developer of ALBERTai, the first ever and patent pending Aging-In-Place Score. Dave brings a uniquely informed perspective to the conversation around aging, technology, and compassionate care. A patient advocate, entrepreneur, and seasoned healthcare strategist with more than 30 years of experience working alongside medical professionals, research organizations, and patient communities across virtually every disease area, Dave has dedicated his career to aligning the goals of all healthcare stakeholders in service of better patient outcomes.

As Chairman of Vital Options International, a global health foundation founded in 1983 and committed to health education, advocacy, and financial assistance for patients in minority and underserved communities worldwide, Dave understands firsthand the human stakes embedded in every healthcare decision.

A recognized author and speaker on the challenges facing vulnerable populations, Dave is a passionate believer that technology, when thoughtfully applied, has the power to close gaps in care, amplify the voices of those too often left behind, and preserve the dignity of aging individuals and the families who love them. It is through this lens that Dave Co-Founded Unity Global Care Inc., to bring the ALBERTai eco-system to families and providers, not merely as tools of convenience, but as meaningful instruments of empowerment for some of the most emotionally complex moments families will ever face.

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How Health Systems Can Leverage Unity Global Care's ALBERTai to Transform Aging in Place: Reducing Readmissions, Cutting Costs, and Extending Clinical Care Beyond Discharge

By Dr. Thomas M. Gill, Yale School of Medicine & David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc.

The Post-Discharge Black Box

Hospital discharge is one of the most consequential and most underserved transitions in modern healthcare. A patient with congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or a recent hip fracture leaves the facility with a carefully crafted discharge plan — then the patient goes home. And the health system goes blind. What happens in that home environment is, for most health systems, essentially invisible.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that approximately one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge, at an average cost of between $15,000 and $25,000 per episode, with the Medicare program spending more than $26 billion annually on hospital readmissions. Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, aggregate penalties exceed $500 million annually across the hospital sector.

A Structural Solution to a Structural Problem

ALBERTai was designed specifically to address this gap by functioning as a unified intelligence layer that integrates every stream of observational, behavioral, physiological, nutritional, psychosocial, and functional data generated in the home care environment — including sleep patterns, mobility, appetite, cognitive function, medication adherence, mood, balance, and strength — into a single, continuously updated, and proactively actionable picture of each patient's functional trajectory.

The ALBERTai Aging-in-Place Score®: Outcome Intelligence at Scale

Central to ALBERTai's value proposition for health systems is the multi-patent pending ALBERTai Aging-in-Place Score® — a continuously updated composite indicator that synthesizes multiple streams of patient-level data into a single, clinically meaningful metric that care managers, discharge planners, and clinical teams can monitor and act upon in real time.

Unlike a point-in-time assessment, the Aging-in-Place Score reflects longitudinal trending, tracking not just where a patient is today but whether their functional trajectory is stable, improving, or declining in ways that predict future clinical events. A patient whose Score begins to decline following discharge is generating an actionable signal that can trigger proactive clinical outreach before that decline progresses to an emergency department visit or readmission.

The Financial Case: Readmissions, Penalties, and Value-Based Performance

In fiscal year 2023, 2,273 hospitals faced HRRP payment reductions, with aggregate penalties exceeding $500 million. The conditions targeted — heart failure, pneumonia, COPD, acute myocardial infarction, hip and knee arthroplasty, and coronary artery bypass grafting — are precisely the conditions most prevalent among the aging adult population that ALBERTai was designed to monitor continuously.

With Medicare Advantage enrollment now exceeding 30 million beneficiaries, health systems and physician groups bearing risk under Medicare Advantage contracts have a direct and growing financial incentive to reduce emergency department utilization and inpatient admissions. ALBERTai's continuous monitoring and early intervention capabilities represent a scalable infrastructure investment with measurable impact on total cost of care.

The Population Health Imperative: Aging in Place at Scale

By 2030, all members of the Baby Boom generation will be 65 or older, representing more than 73 million Americans. The overwhelming preference of this population is to remain at home for as long as possible. For health systems that accept financial risk for this population — whether through Medicare Advantage contracts, accountable care arrangements, bundled payment programs, or direct capitation — the ability to monitor, support, and proactively intervene with aging adults in their home environments is not an optional enhancement. It is a fundamental operational requirement.

Extending the Clinical Team Into the Home

ALBERTai changes the dynamic of fragmented, episodic observation by functioning as a continuous, intelligent bridge between the home environment and the clinical team. The platform aggregates data from caregivers, sensors, and patient interactions across every day of care, analyzes that data against each patient's individual baseline and longitudinal trajectory, and generates proactive alerts and care guidance that reach the right member of the clinical team in time to act.

A Platform Built for Health System Integration

ALBERTai is designed to integrate with existing electronic health record systems, care management workflows, and population health platforms. Discharge planners can configure patient monitoring protocols at the point of discharge. Care managers receive a consolidated dashboard that surfaces the patients most in need of attention, sorted by declining trajectory and risk level. Physicians receive structured, data-supported communications describing changes in patient status in clinical terms.

The Strategic Case for ALBERTai

The case for ALBERTai within a health system is, at its core, a case about alignment — between what health systems are financially accountable for and what they are currently capable of seeing and managing. ALBERTai closes that gap by transforming the home care environment into a continuous source of clinically meaningful, actionable outcome intelligence, enabling health systems to protect revenue, reduce readmission penalties, improve performance under value-based contracts, and deliver genuinely better care to the aging adult population that represents their most complex, highest-cost, and fastest-growing patient segment.

About the Authors

Dr. Thomas Gill, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Thomas Gill is a physician at Yale who specializes in caring for older adults and studying how to help people stay healthy and independent as they age. For more than 30 years, his research has focused on understanding why older individuals develop difficulties with everyday activities and how to prevent or delay those changes.

David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc.
Dave brings a uniquely informed perspective to the conversation around aging, technology, and compassionate care. A patient advocate, entrepreneur, and seasoned healthcare strategist with more than 30 years of experience, Dave Co-Founded Unity Global Care Inc. to bring the ALBERTai eco-system to families and providers as meaningful instruments of empowerment for some of the most emotionally complex moments families will ever face.

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Delivering Better Care to Aging Adults: How Physicians Can Leverage Unity Global Care's ALBERTai to Transform Aging in Place Through Better Patient Monitoring Between Visits

By Dr. Thomas M. Gill, Yale School of Medicine & David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc.

The Visibility Gap That Costs Lives

Every physician managing older adult patients knows the feeling. A 78-year-old patient with hypertension, mild cognitive impairment, and a history of falls leaves the exam room with an updated care plan. But the moment that patient walks out the door, the physician's clinical visibility essentially disappears.

According to the CDC, approximately 36 million falls occur among older adults each year in the United States, resulting in more than 32,000 deaths, 3 million emergency department visits, and direct medical costs exceeding $50 billion annually. Falls remain the leading cause of injury-related death among adults aged 65 and older — yet the majority of fall-related decline is preceded by subtle, detectable changes in gait, balance, sleep, and activity that go entirely unnoticed in the episodic, visit-based care model.

What ALBERTai Does and Why It Matters Clinically

ALBERTai functions as a unified intelligence layer that integrates observational, behavioral, physiological, nutritional, psychosocial, and functional data generated in the home care environment into a single, continuously updated, and proactively actionable picture of each individual patient. It monitors sleep patterns, mobility, appetite, cognitive function, medication adherence, mood, balance, and strength — creating a comprehensive and continuously evolving portrait of how a patient is actually functioning at home.

Critically, ALBERTai does not merely collect or store data. It interprets that information in longitudinal context, learning from patterns across weeks and months to detect subtle changes before they manifest as clinical emergencies. Most home care environments today are simultaneously data rich and insight poor. ALBERTai was designed to connect those dots automatically, continuously, and in time to act.

The ALBERTai Aging-in-Place Score®: A New Kind of Clinical Instrument

At the center of ALBERTai's capabilities is the multi-patent pending ALBERTai Aging-in-Place Score® — a continuously updated composite indicator that synthesizes physical health biomarkers, cognitive function indicators, mobility and strength assessments, sleep quality, appetite and nutritional signals, and medication adherence data into a single, clinically meaningful number that any member of a patient's care team can understand and act upon.

For a primary care physician managing 50 patients over the age of 70 aging in place, this is genuinely transformative. The Aging-in-Place Score changes the dynamic entirely, providing each patient's care team with a continuously updated functional health indicator that surfaces early warning signals and enables proactive outreach and intervention rather than reactive crisis management.

The Clinical Evidence for Early Intervention

The WHO has identified falls prevention as a global public health priority, noting that multifactorial risk assessment and intervention programs can reduce fall rates by up to 30 to 40 percent — when intervention precedes the fall, not follows it. The CDC's STEADI initiative explicitly recommends that healthcare providers incorporate standardized fall risk screening and ongoing monitoring into primary care for older adults. ALBERTai operationalizes these recommendations at scale, extending continuous fall risk surveillance into the home environment where the falls actually occur.

The National Institute on Aging has emphasized that early detection of cognitive decline is among the highest clinical priorities in aging medicine. ALBERTai's continuous monitoring of behavioral, sleep, and functional indicators provides exactly the kind of longitudinal data stream that makes early cognitive decline detection possible in real-world home settings, not just in structured clinical assessments administered months apart.

Medication Adherence: A Preventable Crisis at Scale

The FDA has noted that medication non-adherence contributes to approximately 125,000 preventable deaths and accounts for 10 to 25 percent of hospital and nursing home admissions annually in the United States. ALBERTai's continuous monitoring of medication adherence patterns provides physicians with real-time alerts when a patient's adherence behavior deviates from the established baseline, enabling proactive clinical intervention before a missed medication cascade progresses to a clinical decompensation or preventable hospital admission.

Mental Health and Social Isolation: The Silent Clinical Crisis

The U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory identified social isolation as carrying health risks equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes per day, with one-quarter of adults aged 65 and older experiencing significant social isolation. The CDC has reported that social isolation is associated with a 50 percent increased risk of dementia, a 29 percent increased risk of heart disease, and a 32 percent increased risk of stroke among older adults.

ALBERTai's behavioral and psychosocial monitoring capabilities — tracking mood indicators, communication patterns, and functional engagement over time — provide physicians with ongoing insight into the psychosocial dimensions of their patients' health that a quarterly clinic visit simply cannot capture.

What This Means for Physicians in Value-Based Care

For physicians operating in value-based care arrangements — including Medicare Advantage plans, Accountable Care Organizations, and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System — ALBERTai's continuous monitoring provides longitudinal, real-world outcome data on patients between visits. A patient whose Aging-in-Place Score stabilizes or improves under an established care plan provides objective, real-world evidence of that plan's effectiveness that no claims data or physician-reported outcome can match in granularity or ecological validity.

The Bottom Line for Physicians

The clinical reality of aging in America is that the vast majority of care — and the vast majority of clinical events — happens at home, not in the exam room. ALBERTai does not replace the physician-patient relationship. It extends it, providing continuous clinical intelligence from the environment where your patients actually live their lives, and surfacing that intelligence in time for you to act before a manageable clinical signal becomes an unmanageable clinical crisis.

About the Authors

Dr. Thomas Gill, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Thomas Gill is a physician at Yale who specializes in caring for older adults and studying how to help people stay healthy and independent as they age. For more than 30 years, his research has focused on understanding why older individuals develop difficulties with everyday activities and how to prevent or delay those changes.

David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc.
Dave brings a uniquely informed perspective to the conversation around aging, technology, and compassionate care. A patient advocate, entrepreneur, and seasoned healthcare strategist with more than 30 years of experience, Dave Co-Founded Unity Global Care Inc. to bring the ALBERTai eco-system to families and providers as meaningful instruments of empowerment for some of the most emotionally complex moments families will ever face.

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The Silent Weight: How ALBERTai is Giving Female Caregivers Back Their Peace of Mind, And Why Employers Must Act Now

By Dr. Thomas M. Gill, Yale School of Medicine & David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc.

For millions of women across America, the alarm clock is not the only thing that wakes them in the middle of the night. It is the worry. The quiet, persistent, bone-deep worry about whether their aging mother made it to the bathroom safely, whether their father remembered to take his medications, whether the person they love most in the world is still okay on the other side of town or across the country. This is the reality of female caregiving in America, and it is a reality that has gone largely unaddressed by the healthcare system, and increasingly, by the employers who depend on these women every single day.

The Scale of the Crisis

According to AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving, more than 53 million Americans provide unpaid care to an adult or child with special needs, and women make up approximately 61 percent of that caregiving workforce. Female caregivers provide significantly more hours of care per week than male caregivers, are more likely to provide high-intensity personal care such as bathing, dressing, and managing medications, and are far more likely to have reduced their work hours, turned down promotions, or left the workforce entirely as a direct result of their caregiving responsibilities. AARP estimates that the economic value of unpaid caregiving in the United States exceeds $600 billion annually — a staggering contribution that is invisible in the national economy and uncompensated in the lives of the women providing it.

The Physical and Emotional Toll Is Measurable and Alarming

The National Alliance for Caregiving reports that more than 40 percent of caregivers describe their caregiving situation as highly stressful, and female caregivers consistently report higher stress levels than their male counterparts. According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, women who are caregivers are twice as likely to suffer from depression and anxiety than non-caregiving women, and research published in peer-reviewed medical journals has found that chronic caregiving stress triggers measurable biological changes that accelerate aging at the cellular level — including significantly shorter telomeres, the protective caps on chromosomes considered a key biological marker of aging.

The cardiovascular consequences alone are staggering. Female caregivers have a higher risk of hypertension, coronary heart disease, and stroke compared to non-caregivers. A study published in Circulation found that women who spent nine or more hours per week caring for an ill or disabled spouse had a risk of coronary heart disease more than double that of women who did not provide that level of care. Research from Ohio State University found that caregivers' wounds healed 24 percent more slowly than those of non-caregivers — a direct physiological indicator of how profoundly chronic caregiving stress suppresses immune function.

Uncertainty Is the Real Enemy

Much of the stress female caregivers experience is not caused by the act of caregiving itself — it is caused by uncertainty. The fear that something is changing with their loved one and they cannot see it. AARP research has found that nearly 70 percent of caregivers report feeling unprepared for the challenges they face, and that the unpredictability of a loved one's condition is one of the most consistently cited sources of caregiver distress. Caregiving under these conditions becomes crisis management rather than thoughtful, sustainable support.

Enter ALBERTai: A Transformative Solution for Caregivers

ALBERTai is an artificial intelligence-powered platform designed to monitor the well-being of aging individuals living in their own homes and to provide caregivers with a continuous, data-informed picture of their loved one's health and daily function. At the heart of the platform is the multi-patent pending Aging-In-Place Score®, a real-time assessment tool that gives caregivers a measurable, trackable indicator of how safely and successfully their loved one is aging in their home environment — before a situation deteriorates into the kind of crisis that sends both the aging individual and the caregiver into a devastating spiral.

The ALBERTai Aging-In-Place Score® analyzes behavioral patterns, activity levels, sleep quality, mobility, and other key health indicators over time. Rather than waiting for something to go wrong, the system watches for the subtle changes that precede a crisis — the gradual decline in activity that might signal depression or physical deterioration, the changes in sleep patterns that can indicate an emerging health issue, the shifts in daily routine that might suggest cognitive changes are beginning to develop.

For female caregivers, this means something profound and deeply personal. It means that the middle-of-the-night worry has an answer. Instead of operating in a constant state of anxious uncertainty, a daughter caring for her aging mother can open the ALBERTai platform and see, in clear and accessible terms, whether her mother's patterns are stable, whether anything has shifted, and whether there is reason for concern. It transforms caregiving from a reactive, crisis-driven experience into a proactive, informed partnership between the caregiver and the technology working alongside her.

The Business Case: Why Employers Must Include ALBERTai in Their Benefits Package

AARP has estimated that the average female caregiver loses approximately $324,000 in wages, pension benefits, and Social Security benefits over her lifetime as a direct result of caregiving-related workforce interruptions. According to the MetLife Study of Caregiving Costs to U.S. Employers, caregiving costs American businesses an estimated $33 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism, workday interruptions, and employee turnover.

This is not a women's issue that sits outside the boundaries of business strategy. It is a talent retention issue, a productivity issue, a healthcare cost issue, and a competitive advantage issue — all wrapped into one. Employers who fail to address the caregiving crisis within their workforce are not simply failing their employees as human beings; they are leaving billions of dollars in preventable losses on the table.

The solution is both practical and immediate: employers should offer a subscription to Unity Global Care's ALBERTai Aging-In-Place Score® platform as a standard employee benefit for any employee with an aging parent or loved one. The Harvard Business Review has reported that employees with caregiving responsibilities lose an average of five to seven hours of productivity per week due to caregiving-related distraction, worry, and unplanned absences — losses that are dramatically reduced when caregivers have access to reliable, real-time monitoring tools.

The subscription cost of Unity Global Care's ALBERTai platform is modest relative to the scale of the problem it addresses. When measured against the cost of replacing a single experienced employee who leaves the workforce due to caregiver burnout — a cost that SHRM estimates at between 50 and 200 percent of that employee's annual salary — the return on investment of an ALBERTai subscription is not difficult to calculate.

A Call to Action for Employers

The women in your workforce are not just employees. They are daughters who wake up in the middle of the night worrying about parents they cannot see. They are carrying a weight that is invisible on any org chart but that shows up every day in the quality of their concentration, the reliability of their attendance, and the sustainability of their engagement.

ALBERTai's Aging-In-Place Score® platform, offered through a Unity Global Care employer subscription, is the support they deserve and the investment their employers can no longer afford to delay. It transforms caregiving from a silent crisis carried alone into a manageable, technology-supported responsibility that allows working caregivers to remain present, productive, and healthy — in their families and in your organization.

The alarm clock does not have to be the only answer to the worry in the middle of the night. With ALBERTai, there is another answer. And it is time for employers to make sure their people have access to it.

About the Authors

Dr. Thomas Gill, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Thomas Gill is a physician at Yale who specializes in caring for older adults and studying how to help people stay healthy and independent as they age. For more than 30 years, his research has focused on understanding why older individuals develop difficulties with everyday activities and, importantly, how to prevent or delay those changes. He has published extensively and received many honors for his contributions, and leads major programs devoted to aging research and the health of older adults at Yale.

David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc.
Dave brings a uniquely informed perspective to the conversation around aging, technology, and compassionate care. A patient advocate, entrepreneur, and seasoned healthcare strategist with more than 30 years of experience working alongside medical professionals, research organizations, and patient communities across virtually every disease area, Dave Co-Founded Unity Global Care Inc. to bring the ALBERTai eco-system to families and providers — not merely as tools of convenience, but as meaningful instruments of empowerment for some of the most emotionally complex moments families will ever face.

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The Silent Weight: How ALBERTai is Giving Female Caregivers Back Their Peace of Mind

By Dr. Thomas M. Gill, Yale School of Medicine & David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc.

For millions of women across America, the alarm clock is not the only thing that wakes them in the middle of the night. It is the worry. The quiet, persistent, bone-deep worry about whether their aging mother made it to the bathroom safely, whether their father remembered to take medications, whether the person they love most in the world is still okay on the other side of town or across the country. This is the reality of female caregiving in America, and it is a reality that has gone largely unaddressed by the healthcare system for far too long.

According to AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving, more than 53 million Americans provide unpaid care to an adult or child with special needs, and women make up approximately 61 percent of that caregiving workforce. Female caregivers provide significantly more hours of care per week than male caregivers, are more likely to provide high-intensity personal care such as bathing, dressing, and medication management, and are more likely to have reduced work hours, turned down promotions, or left the workforce entirely as a direct result of caregiving responsibilities.

The physical and emotional toll is measurable and alarming. More than 40 percent of caregivers describe their caregiving situation as highly stressful, and women consistently report higher stress levels than men. Studies have found that chronic caregiving stress is linked to depression, anxiety, and biological signs of accelerated aging at the cellular level.

Cardiovascular and immune consequences are also significant. Female caregivers report higher risk of hypertension, coronary disease, stroke, and stress-related immune suppression. Caregivers often delay their own care, skip appointments, and absorb compounding health risk over time while prioritizing loved ones first.

A core driver of this burden is uncertainty. Much caregiver stress comes from not knowing whether subtle decline is starting, whether a routine has changed, or whether a crisis is quietly building. Caregiving under uncertainty becomes constant crisis anticipation instead of sustainable support.

This is where ALBERTai represents a meaningful shift. ALBERTai provides a continuous, data-informed picture of how an older adult is doing at home. At the center is the multi-patent pending Aging in Place Score®, a real-time indicator designed to help families identify risk earlier and intervene before avoidable crises.

The Aging in Place Score® analyzes trends in mobility, activity, sleep, and daily routines. Instead of waiting for a fall, hospitalization, or emergency event, it surfaces meaningful pattern changes early - giving caregivers and care teams time to respond proactively.

For female caregivers, this means fewer nights spent in anxious uncertainty and more informed visibility into a loved one's status. It shifts caregiving from reactive, crisis-driven response to informed, proactive support. That change can reduce burnout, protect long-term health, and improve quality of life for both caregiver and loved one.

The economic impact is equally important. Women are more likely to experience career disruption due to caregiving, and those disruptions can produce substantial long-term wage and retirement losses. Earlier detection and intervention help prevent sudden high-intensity events that force abrupt, financially damaging decisions.

Minority female caregivers face compounding burden tied to structural inequity, reduced access to formal support, and higher baseline stress load. In these contexts, timely, understandable, and actionable insight is not convenience - it is essential support. ALBERTai helps provide that visibility regardless of distance or schedule.

Beyond the metrics, ALBERTai helps address one of the most harmful emotional dimensions of caregiving: persistent guilt and second-guessing. Objective trend visibility can reassure families when things are stable and trigger faster action when they are not. It gives caregivers clearer footing in clinical conversations where they are often overlooked.

America's caregiving challenge will grow as the population ages. The path forward requires solutions that protect dignity for older adults and sustainability for the family caregivers supporting them. ALBERTai is not the entire answer, but it is a practical step toward replacing uncertainty with insight and worry with informed action.

About the Authors

Dr. Thomas Gill, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Thomas Gill is a physician-scientist at Yale who specializes in caring for older adults and studying how to help people stay healthy and independent as they age. For more than 30 years, his research has focused on understanding why older individuals develop difficulties with everyday activities and how to prevent or delay those changes.

David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder & CEO, Unity Global Care Inc.
David S. DuPlay is a patient advocate, entrepreneur, and healthcare strategist with more than 30 years of experience working alongside medical professionals, research organizations, and patient communities across disease areas. He is focused on technology-enabled, compassionate care that improves outcomes for aging individuals and the families who support them.

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Unity Global Care Inc. Appoints Dr. Thomas Gill of Yale Medicine to Chair its Medical Advisory Board

Flemington NJ, January 20, 2026: Unity Global Care Inc. a leader in AI-enabled healthcare solutions, today announced the appointment of Dr. Thomas Gill, MD, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Investigative Medicine at Yale University, and Humana Foundation Professor of Geriatric Medicine, as Chair of its Medical Advisory Board. A renowned authority on the epidemiology and prevention of disability among older adults, Dr. Gill brings decades of clinical scholarship and translational leadership to Unity Global Care as we advance our Artificial Intelligence and Neural Network platform ALBERTai. His distinguished career includes leadership roles at Yale and a strong track record in aging research, and multidisciplinary collaboration, including epidemiologic studies and clinical trials that aligns with ALBERTai’s mission to translate rigorous science into patient-centered innovations for the aging global population.

Dr. Gill has held pivotal positions at Yale, including Director of the Program on Aging and Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, Director of the Center on Disability and Disabling Disorders, and Director of an NIA-funded postdoctoral training program in Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology and Aging-Related Research.

His research has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Award, the RWJ Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award, the Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award from the American Geriatrics Society, the Ewald W. Busse Research Award in the Biomedical Sciences, the Joseph T. Freeman Award from the Gerontological Society of America, and the Irving Wright Award of Distinction from the American Federation for Aging Research. He is a recipient of a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health and has been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.

In his role as Chair of the Medical Advisory Board, Dr. Gill will provide strategic medical guidance, shape ALBERTai’s Aging-In-place Score and strategy, and foster collaborations with academic and healthcare institutions to advance evidence-based, safe, and impactful solutions for aging adults, their families, and extended care teams, allowing them to Age-In-Place safely.

David S. DuPlay, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Unity Global Care Inc., stated: “Dr. Thomas Gill’s extraordinary leadership in geriatrics, and aging research, including epidemiologic studies and clinical trials, brings unparalleled depth to Unity Global Care’s Medical Advisory Board. His expertise and international standing will be pivotal as we advance patient-centered AI innovations for the aging population grounded in rigorous science and translational impact.”

Dr. Thomas Gill commented: “I am honored to join Unity Global Care as Chair of the Medical Advisory Board. Unity Global Care’s commitment to leveraging science and AI technology to improve patient outcomes aligns with my focus on rigorous clinical evaluation, translational research, and multidisciplinary collaboration. I look forward to working with the team and my fellow Medical Advisory Board Members to guide programs that advance evidence-based, patient-centered innovations.”

About Unity Global Care Inc.

At Unity Global Care Inc. our mission is to be the global leader in developing and commercializing Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Productive Modeling and Neural Network decision support tools which transforms Aging-In-Place. Our first ever and multi-patent pending AI driven Aging-In-Place Score answers one of the most important questions by families: “Is Mom / Dad really okay living alone?”.

About Dr. Thomas Gill

Dr. Thomas Gill is a physician-scientist at Yale University and Yale school of Medicine, serving as Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Investigative Medicine, and the Humana Foundation Professor of Geriatric Medicine. A premier expert in the epidemiology and prevention of disability among older adults, Dr. Gill has led and contributed to groundbreaking research, clinical trials and other aging initiatives. His work has been widely recognized with prestigious awards and leadership roles across Yale and the broader aging research community.

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