For many people, seeing a lot of old people in a hospital is something expected, even mundane. But for Dr Kanapon Phumratprapin, it was a challenge that he wanted to help solve.
The result of his effort was Health at Home, a Thai startup that integrates geriatric medical practice and digital technology to find caregivers for elderly patients.
While working in a Bangkok hospital many years ago, he noticed that most elderly patients who had been admitted wanted to go home. But they couldn’t, even when their medical condition was not serious enough to warrant a hospital stay. It was not easy to find good, qualified caregivers to look after them at home.
“Are there any ways to keep them out of the hospitals?” he recalled asking himself.
That led him to establish Health at Home in 2015 — a few years after Asia-rooted mobile…
