ONSCREEN Brings New AI Features for Senior Companionship, Mental Stimulation, and Valuable Insights to Caregivers

Orange County, CA – ONSCREEN, Inc., a leader in AI-powered and TV-based senior care technology, is proud to announce the release of several new AI capabilities for Joy, the empathetic TV-based AI companion designed for older adults. These innovative and interactive AI features, set to roll out in September and early October, provide caregivers and senior care professionals with unparalleled insights into the daily lives of their loved ones or patients through an accessible TV-based format. As the aging population grows, Joy’s enhanced features promote well-being, support activities of daily living (ADLs), enable health monitoring, and increase cognitive and emotional engagement, offering a clearer picture of health and safety while reducing feelings of isolation.

Joy’s New AI Capabilities: With regular check-ins and conversations, Joy seamlessly helps seniors age in place by providing helpful reminders, companionship, and mental stimulation, all while reporting insightful details about their daily activity, as well as their physical and mental health, to loved ones and caregivers. 

• General Wellness Check: A comprehensive assessment of the senior’s health, emotional state, and living conditions to ensure well-being and comfort.
• Meal and Hydration Check: Confirms whether meals have been eaten and if the user has been drinking enough water, promoting healthy routines.
• Physical Activity Check: Joy encourages physical activity, promoting mobility and overall physical well-being.
• Sleep Quality Check: A focused inquiry into sleep quality and rest patterns to support better sleep.
• Hygiene and Safety Check: Gentle reminders to maintain personal hygiene and ensure a safe, secure living environment.
• Memory Lane and Brain Teasers: Engaging sessions for reminiscing or mental stimulation, promoting positive emotions and cognitive sharpness.
• Daily Joke and Trivia Games: Fun, interactive moments that lift spirits and entertain.
• Create a Painting: A creative session where Joy helps the user generate a unique painting, fostering creativity and engagement.  Caregivers and family members can see the paintings their loved ones create in the ONSCREEN mobile app, save them, and even share them with family and friends.

These new capabilities complement Joy’s initial set of our check-in routines that have already started to roll out earlier this year:

• General Friendly Visit: A casual check-in focused on providing friendly conversation and company, purely for social connection.
• Medication Check: Joy reminds users to take prescribed medication, asking about side effects or challenges and ensuring they stay on schedule.
• Pain and Happiness Check: A thoughtful check on both physical pain and emotional happiness, asking users to rate their well-being to offer personalized empathy and care.

Safe and Trustworthy AI Models

ONSCREEN understands that trust is one of the most, if not THE most, important issues to its customers and partners.  That’s why Joy’s AI operates on highly secure and vetted models, ensuring safety at every step.

• Built-in Safety Measures: Joy filters out harmful content and uses techniques like Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) to ensure responses are accurate, reliable, and aligned with trusted policies.
• Advanced Safety Protocols: Powered by OpenAI’s latest models, Joy leverages cutting-edge methods to prevent security vulnerabilities, making it safe for home and senior care environments.

New Visual Capabilities for Safer Living Spaces

Joy can now assess the living environment through the camera connected to the ONSCREEN device, evaluating the space for safety risks such as clutter or hazards.  This vision also allows Joy to know if an older adult is ready and available for the check-ins. Images that Joy reviews are not stored and directly shared with caregivers, and Joy’s AI evaluates potential risks and reports back without compromising the older adult’s privacy.

A Vision for the Future of AI in Senior Care

“These innovations are just the beginning,” said Costin Tuculescu, CEO of ONSCREEN. “We are working toward a future where Joy provides 24/7 companionship and support, both at home and in senior living communities. With the silver tsunami approaching, these solutions are more critical than ever. Our goal is to help millions of seniors live connected, safe, and enriched lives through accessible technology, powered by empathetic and supportive AI.”

How Joy’s Latest Features Benefit for Older Adults

Joy’s new AI capabilities are designed to provide older adults with a richer, more fulfilling experience. Whether through friendly conversation, mental stimulation with trivia games and brain teasers, or creative sessions like generating a painting, Joy offers daily interactions that reduce loneliness and foster emotional well-being. By engaging older adults in meaningful and fun activities, Joy helps keep their minds active and spirits lifted, all from the comfort of their TV.

In addition to emotional support, Joy’s check-ins provide practical assistance to help older adults maintain healthy routines. From reminding them to take medications and stay hydrated to checking in on sleep quality, safety, and hygiene, Joy ensures that older adults are receiving gentle reminders to stay well while promoting independence. With Joy, older adults can enjoy companionship and care in a seamless, unobtrusive way, improving their day-to-day quality of life.

How Joy’s Latest Features Benefit Family Caregivers

Family caregivers can stay more connected and engaged with their loved ones’ well-being through the updated ONSCREEN Mobile Apps. These apps now feature a newly refreshed Companion Tab, which allows caregivers to view Joy’s interactions with their loved ones at a glance. With just one tap, they can see the results of daily health check-ins, medication reminders, and hydration prompts, ensuring their loved ones are maintaining healthy routines. The app also captures moments of creativity and joy, such as paintings generated during interactive sessions, which caregivers can save and share with family members, creating a more connected and engaged caregiving experience.

This easy access to critical information provides caregivers with the peace of mind that they can monitor their loved one’s emotional, physical, and social well-being anytime, no matter where they are. Whether it's keeping track of meal times, exercise reminders, or simply knowing their loved ones are engaged in meaningful activities, ONSCREEN’s mobile app empowers caregivers to stay involved in the daily lives of their family members conveniently and compassionately.

How Joy’s Latest Features Benefit Enterprise

For Enterprise customers—including senior living communities, home care agencies, and healthcare providers—ONSCREEN’s Enterprise Manager dashboard offers advanced functionality for managing a large number of devices and users. The dashboard provides detailed insights into health check-ins, wellness metrics, and other data gathered through Joy’s AI interactions, enabling care organizations to deliver personalized and efficient care at scale. With tools to monitor multiple users and devices, the Enterprise Manager dashboard is a powerful solution for organizations looking to enhance care delivery and improve outcomes for seniors in their care.

Availability

Joy’s enhanced AI features will start rolling out in late September 2024. Family caregivers and senior care organizations will soon have access to these innovative tools to enhance care and engagement for older adults.

For more information or to schedule a demo, visit ONSCREEN or contact us at press@onscreeninc.com.

About ONSCREEN

ONSCREEN is dedicated to improving the lives of older adults by making technology-based communication more accessible through its innovative AI-powered and TV-based senior care solution. By leveraging the largest screen in the home, ONSCREEN enables effortless connection between older adults and their loved ones or caregivers, resulting in reduced loneliness and isolation and improved access to care. Key features include auto-answering of calls, daily wellness check-ins, telehealth integrations, and an AI companion named “Joy” that provides friendly visits and health checks, all through the TV. For more information, visit https://onscreeninc.com.