For more than 25 years, Griffith University alumnus Simon Lockyer’s professional career has also been his calling.
Best known as a co-founder of the Everydayhero fundraising platform, Simon also co-founded Youngcare, a groundbreaking initiative that built Australia’s first nursing home for young people with high care needs.
Now comes Five Good Friends, a transformational approach to aged care and typical of Simon’s drive to enable better lives through opportunities, strategies, social enterprise and innovation.
A pioneering social enterprise that allows people to receive support and care while they age happily and proficiently at home, Five Good Friends works through app-based technology connecting members, authorised family and friends, and carers.
Among its features, the app:
displays a person’s fortnightly schedule of help;
provides pictures, names and contact details of helpers;
shows which helpers are in the home and when they checked in and out;
enables people to change schedules by directly contacting helpers and community