{"id":215,"date":"2020-07-15T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T20:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/?p=215"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:35:17","slug":"congratulations-to-able-innovations-on-being-a-finalist-in-the-age-well-national-impact-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/2020\/congratulations-to-able-innovations-on-being-a-finalist-in-the-age-well-national-impact-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Able Innovations on being a finalist in the AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Congratulations to Able Innovations on being a finalist in the AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agewell-nih-sam3.ca\/participating\/\">Able Innovation is a project partner with SAM3<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<section id=\"primary\" class=\"content-full-width\">\n<article id=\"post-10284\" class=\"blog-entry post-10284 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-age-well-news\">\n<div class=\"blog-entry-inner\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"entry-title\">\n<h4><a title=\"Finalists announced in startup competition that will showcase technology-based solutions for seniors and caregivers\" href=\"https:\/\/agewell-nce.ca\/archives\/10284\">Finalists announced in startup competition that will showcase technology-based<br>\nsolutions for seniors and caregivers<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Fifteen Canadian startups have been chosen to compete in this year\u2019s AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge, it was announced today.<\/p>\n<p>Finalists will be challenged to explain how their technology-based solution can positively impact older Canadians or their caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>Five finalists will compete in each of three virtual events reflecting the broad spectrum of innovation that exists in<br>\nCanada\u2019s AgeTech sector. The winner at each event will receive $20,000 in cash, plus in-kind prizes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Able Innovations<\/strong> is solving the painful and labour-intensive process of transfers by developing technology that enables effortless, single caregiver, safe and dignified transfers. Our first product, the DELTA Platform, is capable of automated transfers of supine individuals who need to be moved laterally (e.g. bed to stretcher, imaging table) in healthcare facilities, bringing immense value to all stakeholders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Able Innovation is a project partner with SAM3. Finalists announced in startup competition that will showcase technology-based solutions for seniors and caregivers Fifteen Canadian startups have been chosen to compete in this year\u2019s AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge, it was announced today. Finalists will be challenged to explain how their technology-based solution can positively impact older [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ableinnovations","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}