As older adults with advanced illness increasingly rely on the support of others to help manage their health, there is a critical need to foster approaches for effective integration of the family and other caregivers in mobile health.

We are developing and test the Social Convoy Palliative Care (Convoy-Pal) mobile application. Convoy-Pal is a novel intervention integrating the family and other caregivers in digitally-supported palliative care to promote symptom management and quality of life.

Check out what health care providers are saying about mHealth of palliative care.

We also talked with older adults and their caregivers! Check out our recommendations for human centered design for palliative care mHealth.

Heart failure (HF) disproportionately affects older adults and results in high hospitalization, symptoms, and care-partner burden.

The HF Symptom Tracker was designed to help patients monitor symptoms and share symptom information with their care-partners. Older adults found the app acceptable to use.