Cluster 17 of 28. Ideas 341 to 360
Health, care and the parents of Sri Lankans abroad
The mechanism
Sri Lankans abroad have parents at home whom they cannot look after from Melbourne. They will pay, and the money stays.
The 20 ideas
- 341Home-care agencies with trained, vetted carers, booked and paid from abroad
- 342Assisted-living homes for the parents of Sri Lankans abroad, with the standard published and inspected
- 343A daily check-in service: a nurse's visit, a photograph, a message to the child abroad
- 344Medical escort services: a nurse takes the parent to the appointment and reports back
- 345Pharmacy delivery with the prescription managed and the refills tracked
- 346Dementia day-care centres, which hardly exist yet and are needed everywhere
- 347Physiotherapy at home for the elderly, subscription-priced
- 348A hospital directory for families, published
- 349Health-insurance products for parents at home, bought by children abroad
- 350Nurse training to the international standard with a bond to work 2 years in Sri Lankan hospitals first
- 351Medical tourism packages for cataract, hip and knee, with the surgeon's record published
- 352Ambulance and emergency-response subscriptions for the districts
- 353Mental-health counselling by video in Sinhala and Tamil, for the island and for Sri Lankans abroad
- 354Care-worker training for the Japanese and British markets, with the credential recognised on return
- 355A funeral and estate service for Sri Lankans abroad, who cannot fly home in time
- 356Care at home at the end of life, with a doctor and a nurse, which most families do alone
- 357Diabetes and hypertension management clinics, since these are the diseases the island has
- 358Dental clinics to the international standard, priced for both the visitor and the local
- 359Eye clinics in the districts
- 360Fitness and rehabilitation centres for the over-sixties, which nobody has built