A better-connected
care economy.
We bring the people who receive care, deliver it and lead services into the same work: designing better ways to care and the tools to make them possible.
An ambitious question.
A practical starting point.
If someone’s needs change today, can the people around them see it, act on it and follow through?
Care Economy Collective is a founding initiative to connect care, workforce, technology, governance and funding. We begin with Stanford’s organisational experience, then challenge Australia’s current structures and ways of working.
Our starting constraint is the resources already funded. We will test what can improve within them, identify restrictions and make genuine funding gaps visible.
The intention is to approach government with evaluated service models, functioning demonstrations and a costed proposal.
People shape the tools.
Providers, frontline staff, managers and executives bring the problems and ideas. Older people and families help define what better should look like.
Evidence tests the idea.
Measure care, experience, workload and full costs. Be prepared to change the approach or stop it.
Work becomes a model.
Demonstrate the connections, document the limits and make a proposal others can scrutinise.
Who is convening
the conversation?
Dmitry Shibanov is convening the founding effort through SMPLS INNOVATION.
Care Economy Collective brings people together to improve the care industry through shared ideas, practical tools and honest testing. Membership is free, and taking part does not require buying any product or service.
SMPLS LABS and KnowingMe are examples of systems co-designed with providers and the people who use them. Dmitry Shibanov is involved in developing them. We bring them to the Collective for shared learning as we work together on a better care economy system for Australia. Everyone is invited to bring their own products, practical experience and ideas for us to explore together.
We want providers to give their teams the time, confidence and support to suggest improvements. Every member can contribute to the tools the industry needs, through an idea, a design, testing, feedback or something they have already built.
Formal organisational structure and governance are being developed. Potential commercial interests, intellectual property, procurement and independent evaluation need transparent arrangements.
No peak body, university, provider or government agency is represented as a partner or endorser without its agreement.
Help shape the founding work ↗