Caring for seniors — and their caregivers — with a new app

Nurse practitioner Tina Sadarangani, Ph.D., https://nursing.nyu.edu/directory/faculty/tina-sadarangani is all about using technology to help those in need of care and their professional and personal caregivers. In her latest work, she focuses on improving communication between adult day-care centers and primary-care providers, using low-cost mobile technology. Her CareMobi app combines expert advice, community support and essential resources, all accessible at the fingertips of caregivers. With features such as personalized care plans, reminders for medication management and a support network of fellow caregivers, CareMobi is designed to empower users to provide the best care possible while also prioritizing their well-being.

Sadarangani is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal Investigator as well as a board-certified primary care nurse practitioner. She is an assistant professor at the New York University Rory Meyers School of Nursing and cross-appointed as an assistant professor in the NYU School of Medicine Department of Population Health. Her program of research is underscored by a commitment to advancing the health of marginalized older adults by leveraging the strengths of community-based adult day health-care centers to target health disparities. In the last three years, she has expanded her program of research to focus, specifically, on identifying and addressing the health-care needs of cognitively impaired older immigrants, by using the adult day health center as a platform for the delivery of culturally and linguistically appropriate care. Her on-going collaborations with the California Association of Adult Day Services, as well as other community-based organizations, have demonstrated that integrating adult day centers into the health-care continuum contributes to reductions in avoidable health-care use.

She is the recipient of a K23 Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) as well as an R21 from NIA.  She previously received a Career Development Award from the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory and currently serves as an adjunct professor and member of the Collaboratory’s Patient and Caregiver Relevant Outcomes (PCRO) core.

Sadarangani She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology from Georgetown University, a Masters of Science degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania (MSN), and a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and a Ph.D., both from NYU Meyers.