Why ppod®
Age In Place
Aging in place offers numerous benefits, including staying in a familiar environment. It can reduce the emotional stress of relocation by removing isolation while promoting better mental and emotional well-being. Aging in place also supports a higher quality of life by enabling seniors to stay connected to their families and communities.
Safe Care
Personalized, one-on-one care reduces the risk of infectious disease spread, offering a safer, healthier experience. Group care settings are especially vulnerable to outbreaks, highlighting the need for individualized care.
Customized Care
ppod® solutions offers personalized care options tailored to each client's unique needs. Conveniently delivered to their door, it ensures easy access to high-quality, value-based care.
Accessible and Affordable
Our innovative lease-based business model eliminates the need for any upfront purchases or ongoing maintenance making it more simple and convenient, for government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, private insurance companies, as well as clients and their families. Our approach ensures accessibility for all income classes without the burden and costs of ownership.
Demanding Better Care
Our nation faces a healthcare provider shortage, with 83% of counties affected. This drives demand for digital tools, as 75% prioritize access over human interaction and 80% select providers based on convenience. Meanwhile, 80% are dissatisfied with traditional long-term care, seeking options to age at home with family, underscoring the urgent need for innovative, consumer-focused solutions.
High Staff Turnover
Nursing homes experience a 52% staff turnover rate, home healthcare services experience a 77% turnover rate. These high turnover rates directly correlate to poor senior care quality. Institutional care cannot maintain mandated staffing levels, exacerbating the challenges in an already strained senior care system and is further proof of the need for new care options.
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User-Centered Solutions
User-Centered Solutions
ppod® offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional care, saving families and insurance programs up to 20% in monthly healthcare with our preventive vitals monitoring and tele-health connectivity. Designed to adapt without the need for costly home renovations, ppod® is 20% cheaper for Medicaid-eligible seniors and 40% cheaper for self-pay seniors than average private care.
Easy Installation
ppod® is portable, temporary, and reusable. It goes where the senior is at. It has a 30-year fleet shelf life through high quality design and engineering. When the need goes away so does ppod®. It is picked up and returned to a regional distribution center to be cleaned, refurbished, and preloaded before going on to its next waiting client.
Solo Aging
Many seniors rely on adult children for care, but those aging solo face challenges. ppod® addresses this by offering independent living within ppod® clusters, providing support and connection for those without family caregivers. These clusters can be established anywhere, with units sub-leased and managed by third parties.
ppod® By Living Solutions
ppod® offers leased, high-tech housing equipped with satellite internet, telehealth connectivity, vitals monitoring, motion sensors, and caregiving tools. It features a kitchenette, bathroom, and living space for long-term care needs. Once vacated, the unit is refurbished for the next client, ensuring sustainability.
The portable design lets seniors stay near loved ones while receiving personalized care. Caregivers are supported with tools for vitals monitoring, telemedicine, and resident transfer, all within an ADA-compliant environment. Our “One Call For It All” model is convenience based, simplifying health and care navigation, improving outcomes for all parties.
Customizable All Inclusive Solutions
Flexible and adaptable, ppod® is a comprehensive solution connecting families, healthcare providers, and government agencies. It's ideal for rural areas, delivering cost-effective care and reducing isolation. With 38.6 million seniors aged 65-74 by 2030, ppod® represents the future of elder care.
Its built-in satellite internet connectivity provides a turnkey telehealth solution. Recent CMS approval for home-based eldercare and telehealth reimbursement further supports this innovation. Our model empowers family caregivers with decision-making tools and management capabilities, fostering collaboration between seniors and professionals for continuous care. This approach elevates care quality, reduces caregiver burnout, and provides emotional support. ppod® is a scalable, accessible platform designed to bring a supportive environment directly to homes across the US.
The Older Population’s Pain
By 2040, 17 million households will be headed by an 80-year-old person.
Less than 2% of households have the needed design elements for people with disabilities.
Older adult population is increasing across all geographies.
Income Inequality is increasing.
Mortgage Debt has risen by 17% in the last 33 years.
Renting Cost have risen by 55% in the last 12 years.
Number of Cost-Burdened older adults is at an All-Time High.
60,000 older adults are Unhoused and the need for Assistance is Growing.
Accessible-Affordable Housing is not readily available nationwide.
80% of older adults do not want current long-term care offerings.
86% of those living alone aged 75+ cannot afford daily visits from a home health aide.
The annual costs of long-term care average $63,000 nationwide.
Demand for Care Increases with Age. Those reaching 65 will need long-term care for 3 years, 20% will need long-term care for more than 5 years.
ppod® Benefits
ppod all-inclusive design removes the increasing holding costs of home ownership; mortgage, utilities, insurance, repairs/maintenance all contributing cost burdens.
ppod is a platform that can help convert the $12.7 trillion aggregate home equity of homeowners age 62+ into higher care, improved health and quality housing.
ppod is more effective choice in utilization of older adults limited resources, helping to alleviate food, medicine, energy and housing insecurity.
ppod is not only housing, with its onboard vitals monitoring, satellite internet, and telehealth, it is preventive healthcare at new levels.
ppod reduces future health and care costs and increases one’s health-span.
Older adult homelessness is 6X greater than three years ago. ppod creates accessible housing anywhere it is needed.
ppod‘s business model accepts reimbursement payments from multiple stakeholders. From partial consumer, partial employer, partial healthcare plan, partial retirement plans, partial insurance both private and government. We simplify a fragmented industry.
ppod’s Audience? One would assume older adults are ppod’s only audience. ppod’s platform is designed around family members of all ages. Empowering them to become caregivers to elevate their aging family member’s care and health and utilize their available resources at the highest levels of care and efficiency. Our goal is to become an effective advocate for family caregivers by helping to facilitate incentives and subsidies from all reimbursing stakeholders.
Use Cases
Aging Prisoners
The U.S. elderly prisoner population (56+) is expected to double to nearly 400,000 in the next ten years, raising concerns about their care and housing needs.
Stroke Victims
A third of the 700,000 annual stroke victims are under 60, with many facing temporary or permanent disabilities requiring assisted living.
Spinal Cord Injuries
12,500 new cases occur yearly, adding to the 276,000 individuals already living with SCIs. 30% require hospitalization annually.
Traumatic Brain Injuries
1.7 million brain injuries happen each year, with 275,000 requiring hospitalization. Long-term housing options remain a challenge.
People With Disabilities
4 million individuals face a shortage of group homes and suitable housing.
Wounded Warriors
22,000 veterans with severe disabilities need assisted living support.
Homelessness
582,000 individuals lack safe and stable housing, many with severe mental illness.
Isolation/Quarantine
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for self-contained quarantine environments.
Emergency Housing
Natural disasters create an ongoing need for temporary housing solutions.
A More Sustainable Future
Our business model is as innovative as our ppods, designed to remove high upfront costs, making them accessible to all income classes. We've adopted a sustainable, 'circular economy' approach that benefits both our customers and the environment:
Refurbished, Reused, Released: Our portable units are leased monthly, eliminating large upfront and ownership costs. After each use, they're refurbished and re-leased, extending their lifespan and generating residual income for over 30 years. This approach maximizes resource use and minimizes waste, with flexible long-term leases available to suit your needs.
Accessibile to Anyone
Our mission is simple: provide you with affordable, high-quality living solutions while creating positive, sustainable impact for society and the planet.
Low Upfront Costs
No Repair Costs
Portability
ppod® offers ultimate flexibility, designed for use anywhere without the need for permits, making it a hassle-free solution for accessible, adaptable living.
A "Well-Being Solution" for Long-Term Care
The founder of Living Solutions, a former caregiver for his aging parents, experienced firsthand the shortcomings of the current long-term care system. He observed a fragmented and outdated model struggling to meet the needs of a growing elderly population. This challenge is compounded by a severe labor shortage in the caregiving sector, leading to high staff turnover, poor care quality, and increased resident complaints. To combat these issues, Living Solutions created a "Well Being Solution" focused on reducing reliance on a shrinking workforce while improving care quality and accessibility. By fostering a convenience-focused environment and providing caregivers with supportive tools, this solution aims to reduce burnout and moral injury, ultimately leading to better patient outcomes and a more sustainable long-term care model.
ppod® Is the Future of Home Care
Overcoming Barriers to Innovation
Several factors have traditionally stifled innovation in the senior care market. The industry's tight grip on CMS reimbursement, an inability to see internal flaws due to proximity, and reliance on increased government funding as the sole solution have all contributed to a stagnant environment. These obstacles have discouraged external innovators from entering the aging industry and addressing the escalating crisis.
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Empowering Family Caregivers
Our unique approach strengthens family caregivers, bolstering their confidence and recognizing their invaluable contributions. They are the unsung healthcare heroes, providing an estimated $500 billion worth of care annually. Our design puts them at the forefront, acknowledging their role as the eyes, ears, and greatest advocates for our aging population.
A Visionary's Journey
Seven years ago, a personal journey inspired Mark to transform long term care. An outsider, unconstrained by industry influence, he saw the system for what it was - a model reliant on government funding and broken.
Despite recognizing these challenges, efforts to introduce change encountered resistance across both industry and government agencies, which prioritized maintaining established funding structures. The result was a system that masked deep-seated problems such as elder isolation, high employee turnover, and inadequate care quality.
Technological advancements offered hope, but delays in the patent office made protecting intellectual property a lengthy ordeal. Early discussions with government agencies confirmed his suspicions: securing reimbursement for anything beyond traditional institutional care would be an uphill battle.
Then came COVID-19, exposing the fragility of long-term care facilities. The daily death toll underscored the urgent need for change. It tragically took 241,000 deaths and a public outcry for these institutions to finally acknowledge one of America's most pressing social challenges: safely housing and caring for a growing elderly population. The pandemic thrust long-term care into the spotlight, and CMS responded by opening the door for reimbursement for home-based care and telehealth. This pivotal moment created new opportunities for innovative solutions like ppod.
Designed for rural America, where 30% of nursing homes have closed since 2020, ppod's timing is ideal. The long-term care industry faces record bankruptcies as CMS reinstates rules and new labor mandates.
This journey has taught the importance of timing and patience. They've reimagined the long-term care model, addressing its inherent flaws and creating a scalable solution for seniors and their families. With CMS reimbursement and the industry in flux, ppod is poised to make a real difference.
This innovation was born from a personal need - the desire to keep his parents together. The name and trademarked logo, featuring two peas in a pod, symbolize this love and commitment. Today, this logo signifies the possibility for seniors and their families to remain together until the very end, not in a distant bed, cared for by a turnover of strangers but in the comfort and love of their community.
Market Thoughts
Nigel Smith
Director of AARP Innovation Labs Washington, DC
"Wow, you have solved the greatest pain point facing our aging population in rural America."
Lori Bitter
The Business of Aging, San Francisco, CA
"ppod® is the right product at the right time, this is huge."
Jeevak Badve
Senior Advisor for Sundberg-Ferar, Walled Lake, MI
"You have done for the United States what Henry Ford did for the transportation industry. But you did it for the care and health of our aging population."