CareYaya is the fastest-growing health-tech startup in America, solving home care for those with elderly loved ones and medically vulnerable children. We're disrupting the established, broken system of care. Our care marketplace connects clients with great, affordable care from pre-health college students. We're growing rapidly, and are looking to build the team so we can scale across the entire country. Together, let's build a better future for care!
External link for CareYaya Health Technologies
CareYaya Health Technologies reposted this
By 2030, the average senior’s extended family able to step into caregiving will shrink from 7.1 people to 4.1. By 2034, older adults will outnumber children under 18 for the first time in US history. We’re heading into uncharted territory with an unprepared, unsupported and increasingly overwhelmed caregiver workforce. CareYaya Health Technologies #homecare #homehealth https://lnkd.in/gR48Ykw5
CareYaya Health Technologies reposted this
Associate Regional Medical Director - Critical Care | Physician Advisor | Senior Partner - Sound Physicians | Author | Podcaster - Healthcare Musings
We are great at helping patients get out of critical illness. What happens after they leave the hospital can be very challenging. That's where Neal K. Shah comes in with CareYaya Health Technologies. It is an innovative, brilliant solution to a huge problem: who will take care of our loved ones at home? That's the subject of this week's newsletter.
CareYaya Health Technologies reposted this
America’s Chief Elder Officer | CEO of CareYaya | Chairman of Counterforce Health | Author of “Insured to Death” | Featured in WSJ, CNBC, US News, WaPo, Barron’s, NPR, TheHill | Social Entrepreneur and Optimist
Washington loves to celebrate caregivers, but not actually support them. This November is "National Family Caregivers Month" - instead of praise, let's offer support. My latest in The Boston Herald on why 63 million Americans are paying the price for our government’s caregiving paralysis - and what real reform could look like. Caregiving surged 45% in a decade. Average weekly hours tripled. By 2030, older adults will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history. The time for change in NOW! Please share with any caregivers you know, and let's get suggestions from the crowd on what we can demand from our representatives. What do you think we can do to address this growing societal challenge?
CareYaya Health Technologies reposted this
Associate Regional Medical Director - Critical Care | Physician Advisor | Senior Partner - Sound Physicians | Author | Podcaster - Healthcare Musings
We celebrate, rightly, when someone survives critical illness. And yet, what comes next? Frequently, it is fraught with difficulty, along with emotional and financial stress. You want to care for your loved one at home, where it is most comfortable, but who can do it? You have to make significant sacrifice, and this can be bad for everyone involved. Enter Neal K. Shah, who came up with CareYaya Health Technologies, a truly brilliant and innovative solution to address the care economy. According to Neal, the care economy "sucks," and he has personal experience to prove it. I sat down with him and discussed CareYaya and its truly fascinating solution. https://lnkd.in/gZSxvi-U
CareYaya Health Technologies reposted this
America’s Chief Elder Officer | CEO of CareYaya | Chairman of Counterforce Health | Author of “Insured to Death” | Featured in WSJ, CNBC, US News, WaPo, Barron’s, NPR, TheHill | Social Entrepreneur and Optimist
The rising price of compassion? My personal caregiving journey started in my mid-30s and exposed me to something DEEPLY broken in how our society treats and values care. Now, according to new data from Axios, the cost of in-home elder care is rising THREE TIMES FASTER THAN INFLATION. Behind those numbers are millions of families making impossible choices - quitting jobs, moving loved ones into institutions they can’t afford, or going without help altogether. 💔 At CareYaya, we’re building a new model - connecting families directly with thousands of pre-medical and nursing students who provide affordable, compassionate care at home, at rates 30–40% lower than traditional options. Within just a few years, we’ve grown into one of the largest domestic workforce initiatives in aging and caregiving, earning recognition as one of the LinkedIn Top 50 Startups in America this year. ❤️ America is aging fast. The Axios piece calls elder care a “ticking time bomb no one’s talking about.” But we are talking about it, and we’re doing something about it. DM me if you want to join the mission. If someone in your network is caregiving, please share so they may find help. Behind every data point, is a family just trying to hold on... and that is the America we need to fix. 🇺🇸
CareYaya Health Technologies reposted this
America’s Chief Elder Officer | CEO of CareYaya | Chairman of Counterforce Health | Author of “Insured to Death” | Featured in WSJ, CNBC, US News, WaPo, Barron’s, NPR, TheHill | Social Entrepreneur and Optimist
The world doesn’t need another AI model. It needs the warmth of a hand that hasn’t forgotten how to hold another. ❤️ I’ve sat in rooms where machines hum softly, learning faster than any of us ever could. And I’ve sat in rooms where time itself slows - an older woman searching for a name that used to come easily, her hand trembling on the armrest, the silence stretching out like a question no one wants to answer. This year, that tension - between technology and tenderness - even showed up on the #LinkedInTopStartups list. Between those two rooms lies the truth of our age. We can teach machines to predict, to optimize, to imitate. But we cannot teach them to care. Care isn’t data. It’s the act of staying, when every efficiency tells you to leave. Maybe the unsolved challenge of our age isn’t "acceleration", but "attention". In all the moments when it became easier to build a machine than to look another person in the eye. Check out my essay below and please share your thoughts. I think the world will keep inventing smarter machines. I hope we also remember to raise wiser humans. ❤️
CareYaya Health Technologies reposted this
In this week’s episode of the AgeTech Podcast, Neal K. Shah Shah, founder and CEO of CareYaya Health Technologies, shares how he’s building one of the fastest-growing AgeTech startups by rethinking the foundations of care. 🎧 Catch the full episode → https://lnkd.in/gBZy-5CU
CareYaya Health Technologies reposted this
America’s Chief Elder Officer | CEO of CareYaya | Chairman of Counterforce Health | Author of “Insured to Death” | Featured in WSJ, CNBC, US News, WaPo, Barron’s, NPR, TheHill | Social Entrepreneur and Optimist
The VC quietly creating the highest-return category of 2030. While most investors were chasing AI and crypto, she was quietly building an entire new market. 🚀 Meet Amelia Hay, the mastermind behind dozens of startups in the $8.3 trillion AgeTech economy. Through her work at AgeTech Collaborative™ from AARP, Amelia has helped define a movement that investors will look back on as INEVITABLE. America is aging fast. Older adults now control the majority of the nation’s wealth and disposable income. Baby Boomers, the largest generation in U.S. history, are turning 80 starting this year in large numbers. In the next 5 years, demand for aging-in-place, caregiving, and healthcare innovation will SKYROCKET. Meanwhile, much of venture capital is still chasing over-saturated fads, looking backward not forward. In my 15 years in the hedge fund industry, I learned that the highest future returns are made by what you do today, especially by entering markets BEFORE everyone else sees them. I left that world to build one of the fastest-growing AgeTech startups in America at CareYaya Health Technologies, partly because of my personal caregiving experiences, but also because the tailwind is SO OBVIOUS. This IS the next trillion-dollar wave. An inverted population pyramid. Skyrocketing care needs. And a MASSIVE opportunity to build the biggest and most socially impactful companies in America over the next decade. It was a pleasure connecting with Amelia and her team at HLTH last week. While AI dominates the headlines, remember that the investors who will win BIG by 2030 started planting the seeds today for the next boom. If you’re building or investing in this space, let’s connect. And if you’re not yet - but are curious where the future is going - reach out. Now is the time to look closer... and jump in!
CareYaya Health Technologies reposted this
Most people don’t realize there’s a hidden caregiving workforce powering homes across America. They’re not agency employees. They’re students - future nurses, doctors, and therapists - already shaping the future of care. In this week’s episode of the AgeTech Podcast, I sat down with Neal K. Shah, founder and CEO of CareYaya Health Technologies, to talk about how a personal caregiving journey turned into one of the fastest-growing AgeTech startups in the world. We talked about how empathy, technology, and a fresh approach to caregiving are changing what’s possible - for families, caregivers, and the entire care economy. If you’ve ever wondered where innovation in caregiving is really happening, this episode is worth your time. 🎧 Catch it here: https://lnkd.in/gBZy-5CU Do you think student caregivers could help solve the global caregiver shortage?
CareYaya Health Technologies reposted this
America’s Chief Elder Officer | CEO of CareYaya | Chairman of Counterforce Health | Author of “Insured to Death” | Featured in WSJ, CNBC, US News, WaPo, Barron’s, NPR, TheHill | Social Entrepreneur and Optimist
The government is still one of the best backers of moonshots that matter. Last week at HLTH, my teammates Gavry Eshet and Maggie X. stood alongside the top startups in the country, working on things ranging from Alzheimer's therapeutics, incontinence monitors, fall detection apps, swallowing sensors. Wildly different technologies. Same urgent mission: helping people age with dignity, health, and connection. ❤️ What moves me about the National Institute on Aging's Startup Challenge isn't just the innovation it funds, but the VISION behind it. While short-term thinking dominates so much of our economy, the NIA made a different bet years ago: that keeping older Americans healthy, connected, and autonomous is worth long-term public investment. They're backing the most promising solutions the market might overlook because the timeline is long, but the impact is profound. These teams represent something rare - the government saying "this problem matters enough that we'll fund people to solve it, even if it takes years to see returns." That's the kind of patient capital that transforms entire fields. To see our team at CareYaya Health Technologies in the finalist group, I felt grateful that someone decided this work deserves support. Because aging touches every family, and the innovations happening now will shape how ALL of us experience our later years. What breakthroughs in aging or caregiving would you want to see funded next?