Elder Companion

Gen AI agent to assist and provide companionship to elders in the modern era.

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Inspiration

I volunteer as a care deacon at church and spend time with elders in their houses or senior living facilities. During these interactions, I have realized the importance of companionship as well as the effect of technology on their lives. In this modern era, Artificial Intelligence can play a significant role in improving our personal and professional lives.

What it does

The 'Elder Companion' app is a humble attempt to repay those seniors, who have helped us grow into our current lives. It is a Lifestyle Bot that focus on the following areas

  • Health
  • Diet
  • Mindfulness
  • Hobbies
  • Pets
  • General

How we built it

I have built this app using Google Vertex AI Agent Builder in Google Cloud Platform. Following were the major services used

  • Vertex AI Agent App
  • Cloud Bucket
  • Conversation History

Challenges we ran into

  • Learning Google Cloud Platform, Vertex AI, and Agent Builder fundamentals and usage
  • Coming up with project idea
  • Identifying relevant project use cases

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • I am extremely proud that I could learn and code using Vertex AI services.
  • I am glad I could use the learning to come up with something that can be of use to seniors.

What we learned

  1. How Generative AI makes life much easier
  2. How Google Cloud platform work?
  3. How Vertex AI and Agent Builder services provide various AI capabilities
  4. How to create an app easily in terms of time, effort, and resources with no developer experience

What's next for Elder Companion

  • Explore more about Generative AI and its possibilities
  • Explore the options to improve the app with more features like those given below:
    • Include a call feature, in case of emergencies
    • Include email capability to the app using Email Communication Services
    • Groups & Forums to enable the elders to connect with peer groups based on their interests

Built With

  • agents
  • ai
  • app
  • bots
  • genai
  • google-cloud
  • low-code
  • no-code
  • vertex
  • vertexai
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