Malaysian dwelling care service supplier Care Concierge goals to make the most of the funding it acquired from the Gobi Dana Impak Ventures (GDIV) fund in establishing caregivers academy and expertise app.

Care Concierge stated in an announcement on Tuesday that agency goals to comprehend its imaginative and prescient of offering revolutionary options by way of expertise and design considering, to emerge because the main supplier of Holistic Senior Care in Malaysia.

Thus, it’ll allocate the funds acquired from GDIV to assist the corporate’s strategic growth plans, primarily targeted on two key areas.

The first will focus in direction of the event {of professional} and licensed caregivers by way of the institution of the “Care Concierge Academy,” which can present upskilling alternatives and a transparent profession path for skilled caregivers.

Secondly, it is going to be channelled in direction of the enhancement of the “Care Concierge App” with superior expertise.

The Care Concierge apps will serve a two-pronged strategy, serving as the first studying platform for college students and lecturers and supply a simple on-line entry to review supplies.

At the identical time, it’ll even be the principle digitalized assist platform to enhance the standard and effectivity of senior care providers.

These initiatives symbolize a major funding within the firm’s dedication to offering wonderful care providers and additional strengthening its place as a pacesetter within the senior care trade.

As a part of Care Concierge’s founders’ mission to uplift the senior care trade, the “Care Concierge Academy” was established in partnership with a Malaysian college, “Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman” (UTAR).

Its major function is to supply coaching, certification and equipping caregivers with the mandatory {qualifications} for efficient best-in-class care to seniors.

Care Concierge opined that this won’t solely uplift the caregivers occupation, but in addition tackle the scarcity of high quality skilled caregivers and supply a satisfying profession path on this rising trade.

Therefore, a big portion of the fund can be utilized to strengthen the “Care Concierge Academy”, within the recruitment of the B40 youths (people underneath the age of 30 belonging to households with a month-to-month revenue inside the backside 40% of the inhabitants), to encourage them on this viable and rising profession path.

Along with certifications, the academy can even evaluate and increase their efforts to ramp up on recruitment and thru this, Care Concierge will increase their senior residing providers footprint to different key cities.

Over the years, Care Concierge has onboarded about 2,000 skilled caregivers and specialists, delivering over 6.6 million hours of providers to their purchasers.

Part of the fund that can be utilized to reinforce the app can even incorporate IoT expertise to supply seniors with a extra personalised and efficient care, for his or her security, on the identical time to assist and information them to reside more healthy and extra impartial lives.

The Care Concierge app additionally facilitates transparency in communications for the neighborhood {of professional} caregivers, different care specialists, seniors and their households.

It tracks and screens vitals, and logs duties carried out all through the day, offering a abstract of look after members of the family, who could also be on-the-go or abroad.

Care Concierge believes that its “Person-Centred Care” holistic strategy ensures that the senior’s bodily, cognitive and psychosocial well-being by way of skilled
caregivers.

Care Concierge at the moment gives high quality senior residing care options, all through its six life-style oriented Assisted Living Residences, totalling greater than 350 rooms, inside Klang Valley and Penang, Malaysia.

With the extra funding acquired on this train, Care Concierge is anticipated to rollout an extra 1,000 rooms within the subsequent three years.

“Our mission at Care Concierge is to enrich the quality of life for the seniors and their family within their community, to lead a meaningful and purposeful life.” stated Care Concierge Founder and Chief Executive Officer Martin Yap.

According to him, the agency strives to make sure that the seniors have entry to high quality care and providers, and that their communities are constructed with their wants in thoughts.

“With this in thoughts, we’re dedicated to investing in creating professionals and experience for the caregiver’s occupation to cater to the care of our ageing inhabitants,

“In collaboration with the government and higher learning institutions, Care Concierge Academy aims to support a healthy social and economic impact by providing the right and best care continuously for our seniors in generations to come,” he stated.

Care Concierge was based in 2017 to enrich the standard of life for the seniors and their households inside their neighborhood by offering options by way of expertise, design considering and innovation.

The agency presents a variety of high quality senior residing care options, curated to go well with ageing preferences to allow the seniors to take care of their independence and lead significant and purposeful lives.

GDIV is managed by the Pan-Asian enterprise capital firm, Gobi Partners and is backed by the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Khazanah).

GDIV is part of the Future Malaysia Program, an initiative launched in March 2023 and underneath Khazanah’s Dana Impak mandate, that goals to assist the Malaysian start-up ecosystem of entrepreneurs, start-ups, enterprise capital, and company enterprise packages, by way of collaborations with home and worldwide companions.

Gobi Partners onboards Care Concierge to the Khazanah-backed Gobi Dana Impak Ventures fund