Concord resident uses web to transform elder care

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Concord resident Jim Reynolds last month opened Caring Companion Connections, a home services agency that adds a 21st century twist to in-home elder care.

CCC’s caregivers, known as Companions, use smartphones, such as BlackBerrys, to upload photos, activity logs and daily reports to a Web portal tied into a landline at the client’s location and viewable by loved ones in other cities or towns. 

Reynolds has hired Debbie Bier as district director of the Concord office. She is responsible for day-to-day operations of Caring Companion Connections, which covers Metrowest, a 45-minute radius around Concord by Reynolds’ definition.

He also plans to open offices in the Falmouth area, which would cover the Cape and South Shore, and on the North Shore around Salem or Gloucester. But Reynolds, whose family operates large non-medical home care agencies in Florida and Kansas, expects Caring Companion Connections will grow beyond Massachusetts. 

For more information, visit the company's Web site.