New www.CareMinds.com Helps Families & Caregivers to Connect With Care Resources For Senior Citizens – and Share Information

Largest Free Database of Assisted Living Facilities, Nursing Homes, Medical & Non-Medical Home Care, Hospice Care & Geriatric Care Managers

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire/ — A new website, www.CareMinds.com (CareMinds) — the first of its kind — helps families and caregivers to connect with the most appropriate care for their senior loved ones. Free to consumers, it offers a nationwide provider database and an interactive communications platform to find and share solutions to enhance the quality of life for seniors.

CareMinds.com was founded by CEO Howard Lau, a software and finance veteran with experience in long term care and a personal interest in helping senior citizens. Having developed software applications for long term care organizations, he began using the web to help consumers make better senior care decisions.

“In researching online resources for senior care, we found that existing sites were deciding what information was important, rather than letting users express their needs and share their experiences,” said Lau. “CareMinds not only offers an extensive database of care providers — home care to nursing homes to hospice — it also encourages users to shape the site — asking questions, sharing experiences, creating community knowledge.”

The CareMinds experience is personalized and collaborative, providing insight as well as information. It features — or soon will:

• A comprehensive, searchable database of almost 60,000 providers – assisted living facilities, nursing homes, medical and non-medical homecare, hospice care and geriatric care managers. (Listings can be added and detailed by members.)
• Free provider listings and access.
• Consumer reviews and ratings of providers, as well as provider responses.
• News and user contributed content related to elder care, authored by professional and non-professional caregivers, and seniors. The site is seeded with the latest news of senior interest from credible sources, including blogs — creating a one-stop information resource. “CareMinds collects and shares the wisdom of senior care,” said Lau. “Our most important message is, ‘You’re not alone!’ Help is a click away with the CareMinds community.”

For further information, visit www.careminds.com.

SOURCE www.CareMinds.com