Mark Emery, left, executive director of Imagine!, and Bob and Judy Charles show architectural drawing of the new SmartHome, which will open in Boulder this summer. The home will be one of the first in the nation, and serve as a model for future of residential care for people with cognitive disabilities.
I'm excited to help spread the word that Imagine!, a Lafayette, Colo.-based nonprofit providing care to people with cognitive and physical disabilities, has just launched a new "fan" page on Facebook, and is making more plans to expand its reach through social media.
This summer Imagine! will complete and open its new Bob and July Charles SmartHome at 18th and Iris streets in Boulder. This home, and another to be built in Longmont, will be national models for how the latest technologies, as well as green building, can be used in a community home to assist the residents. The technologies will make the caregivers more effective, too, by allowing them to track medications, computerize reminders about client needs and monitor sensors for better awareness and accountability of residents.
The SmartHome project will be exciting to watch, and much more information is available online from Imagine! including photos, videos and architectural drawings of the new homes.
I serve on the Imagine! Foundation, which was started to raise money to help pay off the mortgages of several existing homes, and now we're in a new fund-raising capital campaign to complete the SmartHomes. You can make a secure online donation for the SmartHome campaign, or you could contact me personally for information about the campaign and how you could help.
Imagine! will be putting out a lot more information and news as the SmartHomes project advances. I hope you'll follow the progress.
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