Brief history of patient tools for caregivers, friends, and family. Includes GiveForward, CaringBridge, CarePages, MyLifeLine.org, etc.

1. CrowdFunding Patient Care Desiree Vargas Wrigley desiree@giveforward.com @desireegf

2. Definitions of CrowdFunding Wikipedia Definition: Crowd funding describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money and other resources together, usually via the internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations. My Definition: The collective generosity or investment by a group for a mutually agreed upon benefit-usually a person or a cause.

3. CrowdFunding Sites

4. Social Media

6. 65% of people who need ongoing care rely exclusively on Friends and Family

7. Average caregiver is 46 year-old woman who makes $35,000 working outside the home

8. The cost to U.S. businesses is $3.8Billion a year

9. Caregivers of spouses are 6 times more likely to suffer from depressionCaregiving in the United States;National Alliance for Caregiving in collaboration with AARP; November 2009http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=892

10. Patient Blog Sites

11. Patient Blog Sites

12. Patient Blog Sites

13. Caregiver Sites

14. Caregiver Sites

15. “What can I do to help?”

17. Bar/Bat mitzvahs

18. New Baby

19. High School Graduation

20. College Graduation

22. Average cancer patient spends $8500 a year

23. Median income in the U.S. is $46,000

24. 50% of Americans cannot come up with $2,000

25. 2011 Average deductible is $1200 and out-of-pocket requirements for HMO is $5,656 and $5,860 for PPO’s

27. CrowdFunding Sites

28. CrowdFunding Sites

30. Transparency in out-of-pocket expenses.

31. Price shopping for care.

32. More people planning for these expenses.

33. Employers responding to additional demands of ill workers.