UDW Partners with Care3 Digital Health Equity Solution for Member Caregivers
UDW Members Get Fully Personalized Care3 Mobile App to Manage Caregiving Activities for People with Neurodiverse Conditions and Seniors
For the first time, UDW will have the ability to measure the volume of work delivered by its Members while also quantifying unpaid work.
Riverside, CA and Los Angeles, CA, May 22, 2023 – United Domestic Workers of America (UDW/AFSCME 3930), a union representing 165,000 home care and family child care providers throughout California, announced today a new collaboration with leading digital health equity platform company, Care3, to empower its members to use digital tools to manage the daily complexities and challenges of home-based care for seniors, neurodiverse (autism, ADHD, epilepsy, and more), and other people living with challenges. As part of this new program, Care3 will fully personalize its mobile app experience for the caregiving needs of each individual UDW Member and their clients.
Care3 is the world’s first digital health equity platform company. Founded by caregivers parents of children with autism, and senior caregivers for people with dementia, COPD, CHF, cancers, and more, Care3 organizes care including appointments, activities of daily living, medications, and more, no matter what conditions, to help caregivers stay on track. Care3 then transforms these activities into actionable real world data to leverage in daily care decisions, and medical treatment plans by health professionals. Because clinical data rarely includes data from people of color, Care3 helps create more equitable care by creating data from real world health experiences, thus reducing bias in social and medical decision-making.
“Through this important collaboration, UDW and Care3 will finally have the data to substantiate and quantify our long-known claim that caregivers provide significant unpaid care even with the current IHSS paid care structure,” said Doug Moore, Executive Director of UDW. “Home care providers should get paid for all of the work they do because it not only positively impacts the quality of life of the client, but also reduces costs for the state healthcare system.”
“Our partnership promotes health equity at scale for people typically ignored by the innovation technology ecosystem.” Care3 CEO and Founder David S. Williams III adds. “By improving digital health literacy and unleashing the power of real world data for families with challenging healthcare needs, UDW and Care3 will empower more than 100,000 families in California to make better health decisions, improve interactions with their providers, all while reducing health inequities.”
For more information on the partnership, visit www.care3.co/udw.
About UDW
We are 165,000 home care and family child care providers across the state of California. Through sharing our strengths and experiences, we have won many victories for care workers including paid sick leave, vacation pay, and overtime. We also advocate for the seniors, people with disabilities, and children we serve. As a union of women and people of color, we fight for the issues that impact our families and communities: racial justice, disability justice, gender equity, immigrants’ rights, affordable housing, and communities free of police violence.
About Care3
Care3 is the world’s first digital health equity platform helping health organizations and consumers manage the complexities of home and community-based care. Care3 leverages consumer engagement in the home to generate real world data to improve care and health decisions for underserved groups. Learn more at www.care3.co.
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Media Contacts:
For Care3
Jon Chun
415-967-3793
For UDW
Dan Arel
619-814-3337